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 * five interesting things about Iowa :**[[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Kids/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-2.png]][[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Kids/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-3.png]]
 * state nickname is the Hawk-eye State
 * the area of Iowa is 56,276 square miles
 * Iowa is the only state who's name starts with two vowels
 * the largest glacier-made lake in Iowa is Spirit Lake
 * the state motto is : "our liberties we prize and out rights we will maintain."
 * the state motto is : "our liberties we prize and out rights we will maintain."


 * five im****portant Iowan issues :**
 * current Iowa law does not provide the death penalty even though most Iowans tend to favor capital punishment.
 * even if health care is affordable, Iowa Health Care states that it is a "one-time deal."
 * Iowa voted yes on free trade with many countries because it could be beneficial for everyone.
 * Iowa has their own death penalty law, which bans it, even though some Iowans tend to favor it.
 * citizens of Iowa ignored false information on health care and the death penalty, and instead researched the truth.


 * __three most important issues to me:__

death penalty :** i feel that the death penalty is a cruel and costly punishment because if a person is found innocent after being executed, officials would have lost that person to something that is not necessary. Also, i feel it violates the Bill of Rights and is a large financial cost toward the government and the states that allow the death penalty. It is viewed that life in prison is better and safer punishment than the death row because criminals lives aren't taken from them, guilty or not. The government could fix this by sentencing people of very dangerous crime to life in prison, until they die there, not to be killed by the government officials. Government can also fix this by trying to limit the way people are treated, and in the end, stopping the death penalty. People kill when they are desperate for money, food, or clothing. Providing these critical things would lead to a decrease in crimes and a more peaceful way of living for everybody.


 * affordable health care :** affordable health care should be available for every person in the United States. Health care has its disadvantages, however, too. Some are that it may be affordable to lower class and some middle class citizens, but the taxes are increased for higher class people who have health care. Also the government has a massive federal debt to pay for all the new people who finally have health care. Since many more people have health care, the service of the doctors and nurses is reduced. The best solution for this problem would be to change the system in some ways, since there have been problems with some systems around the United States. Some adjustments that could happen is that they could try to have more people try for jobs in medical care, helping people with more health care that are not getting service right away. Another way to fix this could be to build more hospitals and health care centers close to cities with poor conditions where many events happen.


 * free trade between U.S. and other nations :** the problems that with free trade are that the competition is increased for more crops and important exports/imports. also the unemployment rate increases because other countries sometimes make the same goods as people here, and the U.S. tends to trade with them more instead of having us create the goods. Unemployment rate is increasing because the trade with other countries is free and not costly.These problems can be solved by signing and agreeing to contracts and agreements to try and limit the amount of imports/exports that we acquire. Also limiting the factors to certain people and companies would allow more jobs to be available to more people and we would not have an increasing unemployment rate.


 * senate bill 46:** this bill is about giving underprivileged families the education they need to succeed in this world. The title is Equal Education and is eligible for 100 families per month in poor living conditions and no current education. Having this bill will allow children and adults from poor families to obtain a two-year scholarship to a school in their area. This scholarship includes the taxes and supplies being paid for, so the only thing the people would have to do is get to school and learn ! The bill describes that people with low money or not enough for school get an offer between choosing, so they would not have to do it, but have the opportunity. After the scholarship is over, the families could chose whether or not to continue going to school because they could have been saving up money during the two years or getting descent-paying jobs. All this bill is trying to accomplish is to get equal education for everyone in the United States, and that is what my partners, Ricky Mayer and Zach Stahl, and I are here to help accomplish.

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