Drop in Unemployment rate DOES matter

In response to my fellow colleague's article, the reason it matters that unemployment rates have dropped is because it shows a reversal of trends against the recession. For example the price of gold which had gone dramatically up in the last few years took a sharp fall due to the new strength of the dollar directly because of the unemployment rates dropping. While yes I agree that .2% is hardly anything in respect to the overall problem it is at least showing signs of improvement which we have not seen in several years. The economy is finally showing optimism for a lasting improvement that we the American people have needed to see signs of for so long. The general attitude has been so low recently that any upturn is welcomed and we will take our victories, no matter how small where ever we can get them. The issue that raised about extra workers being hired for the holiday season also does not apply, in October we lost 111,000 jobs compared to November being only 11,000. While your fiance may have been laid off that one instance that you are choosing to look at does not mirror the overall picture in the United States job economy. The members of the Senate and Congress are also in a better position to see the trends than we are as well, they have the liberty of stepping back and examing the problem not just trying to cure the symptoms as they occur. I for one, do not want my lawmakers to be struggling with their own personal debt issues and not concentrating on the problems and laws that need to be made. The only people in some ways that even need to see this slight upturn are the investors responsible for pumping money into our economy. We all would love to be back when we all had good jobs and money, but that is not the way that life works and a recession was coming we just happened to land in the middle of it. President Obama agreed that while we are happy to see this improvement, the struggle is far from over. There is now hope where once there was none.

Why not use human stem cells?

In this article President Obama reversed an extremely controversial decision made by former President Bush in regard to research connected to human embryonic stem cell lines. The debate over the use of human stem cells is one that has been going on for many years now about not only the legality of using human stem cells, but also the morality.
Human stem cells are cells that can become any of over 200 types of cells in the human body. Embryonic stem cells are collected under extremely strict protocols when the embryo is in the blastocyst phase about 4 to 5 days old. The excitement surrounding these cells is understandable do to the amount that could be accomplished in terms of regenerative medicine after disease or injuries occur.
The controversy however, has been that until recently there have been no methods that allow for the cultivation of stem cells without killing the embryo in the process. Recent groundbreaking techniques have now made the collection of the cells possible without damaging the embryo and preserving its life. Animal stem cells have been used for some time however, there is only so much that can be done with one arm tied behind our back. We must cross the bridge into the human stem cells to see the benefit to humanity.
There are many special interest groups that will be for and against this new decision. Some will see this as great leap in our scientific ability to preserve life and others will see it as an afront to nature. Either way that we go however, someone is likely to feel tread on and overlooked. This could also bring an opportunity to reevaluate human cloning in small scales of organs and things of that nature that these stem cells would help to incorporate these into our bodies making us a much more resilient people and the best part is that these cells could be gathered at birth and used throughout our lives as the need arises. Either way this decision is one that I support but know will create much debate over the next few years.