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Gore Administration- Winter 2006
Winter 2006
The beginning of 2006 symbolized that the year up ahead would be an interesting one if not a troublesome one for some people. While the incident involving Nestle and other companies was being resolved part of Al Gore's attempts to raise American item standards as Fair Trade and would end up running into unforeseen problems, the days continued that spurred on the American subconscious. Fossil fuels would take yet another hit to their sinking reputation with the Sago Mine disaster. Beyond mourning the lives of the miners lost, more and more people began complaining over the lack of safety and the lack of need for coal-mining. It was becoming harder to defend since renewable energy was steadily becoming more commonplace and cheaper and thus, disasters as such would be avodied by nature of their dangerous work no longer being required. Gore's programs were given an additional boost, funneling toward classes to help blue collar folk find jobs in the renewable energy sector, directly or indirectly. Others would go toward the educational program set up to learn new languages for translation jobs such as Farsi, Arabic and Pashtun along with mroe funding to Chinese. Additioanally, the year also began the US exchanging data with Portugal from the changes they made with their drug laws since July 2001. With five years of data, it was to go over and design potential programs to help end the drug trade. Domestially, Maryland became the next state to strike down laws banning same-sex marriage and which pushed the envelope more and more. Meanwhile, the trade dispute between Ukraine and Russia added more tension to Russia and the West, as more and more of the former Warsaw pact gravitated toward NATO and the US. However, not everything was all doom in gloom in the world of politics. The Winter Olympics arrived after all over in Turin, Italy. It was a moment where the nations put aside global tensions and enjoy the wonderful sports and meeting of the various athletes with one another.
Torino, Italy Winter Olympics Logo
On the other hand, a fresh wave of corporate dissatisfication reminded the public on the problems of untethered corporate influence. IBM freezing its pension plans in 2008 and offering only 401K upsetted more than a few people though the anger also laid in basically wanting to do more for the elderly. On the other hand though, the AOL settlement also reminded people of the dangers regarding companies trying to expoit their users and also that the internet was still a Wild Wild West with whole new rules. Additionally, the General Motor news also concerned some more folk and mamy doubt results will improve. While some try to point toward Gore's policy standards, many have noted that the underlying causations make little sense for anything like that. Nonetheless, the growing loss was having concerns for some about the future, even with the current economic situation otherwise looking pretty well. Others instead believe it is a consequence of corporate chicanery. AIG also was a large talk with its large settlement and continued the mentality of mistrust toward large corporations and some were growing to believe Gore was a bit too soft on some corporations in terms of getting away with their faults. Others was the news on who would be the new Judge t be assigned by Al Gore to the Supreme Court. Eventually, it would be chosen to be Elena Kagan to replace Rehnquest.
Elena Kagan, Supreme Court Justice
The beginning of 2006 symbolized that the year up ahead would be an interesting one if not a troublesome one for some people. While the incident involving Nestle and other companies was being resolved part of Al Gore's attempts to raise American item standards as Fair Trade and would end up running into unforeseen problems, the days continued that spurred on the American subconscious. Fossil fuels would take yet another hit to their sinking reputation with the Sago Mine disaster. Beyond mourning the lives of the miners lost, more and more people began complaining over the lack of safety and the lack of need for coal-mining. It was becoming harder to defend since renewable energy was steadily becoming more commonplace and cheaper and thus, disasters as such would be avodied by nature of their dangerous work no longer being required. Gore's programs were given an additional boost, funneling toward classes to help blue collar folk find jobs in the renewable energy sector, directly or indirectly. Others would go toward the educational program set up to learn new languages for translation jobs such as Farsi, Arabic and Pashtun along with mroe funding to Chinese. Additioanally, the year also began the US exchanging data with Portugal from the changes they made with their drug laws since July 2001. With five years of data, it was to go over and design potential programs to help end the drug trade. Domestially, Maryland became the next state to strike down laws banning same-sex marriage and which pushed the envelope more and more. Meanwhile, the trade dispute between Ukraine and Russia added more tension to Russia and the West, as more and more of the former Warsaw pact gravitated toward NATO and the US. However, not everything was all doom in gloom in the world of politics. The Winter Olympics arrived after all over in Turin, Italy. It was a moment where the nations put aside global tensions and enjoy the wonderful sports and meeting of the various athletes with one another.
Torino, Italy Winter Olympics Logo
On the other hand, a fresh wave of corporate dissatisfication reminded the public on the problems of untethered corporate influence. IBM freezing its pension plans in 2008 and offering only 401K upsetted more than a few people though the anger also laid in basically wanting to do more for the elderly. On the other hand though, the AOL settlement also reminded people of the dangers regarding companies trying to expoit their users and also that the internet was still a Wild Wild West with whole new rules. Additionally, the General Motor news also concerned some more folk and mamy doubt results will improve. While some try to point toward Gore's policy standards, many have noted that the underlying causations make little sense for anything like that. Nonetheless, the growing loss was having concerns for some about the future, even with the current economic situation otherwise looking pretty well. Others instead believe it is a consequence of corporate chicanery. AIG also was a large talk with its large settlement and continued the mentality of mistrust toward large corporations and some were growing to believe Gore was a bit too soft on some corporations in terms of getting away with their faults. Others was the news on who would be the new Judge t be assigned by Al Gore to the Supreme Court. Eventually, it would be chosen to be Elena Kagan to replace Rehnquest.
Elena Kagan, Supreme Court Justice
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