Are Liberals Ruining America

No, this is not what liberals believe. I don't speak for every liberal out there, but we generally believe that everyone who is at a disadvantage should get the help they need so everyone has a fair start. This doesn't mean we serve these people with "silver platters." The fact is not everyone in America is treated equally or the same. For example, racism that is still in America. Yes, I agree that people need to work to get what they want, and immigrants do. Immigrants start businesses. According to the Small Business Administration, immigrants are 30 percent more likely to start a business in the United States than non-immigrants, and 18 percent of all small business owners in the United States are immigrants. Immigrant-owned businesses create jobs for American workers. According to the Fiscal Policy Institute, small businesses owned by immigrants employed an estimated 4.7 million people in 2007, and according to the latest estimates, these small businesses generated more than $776 billion annually. Immigrants are more likely to create their own jobs. According the U.S. Department of Labor, 7.5 percent of the foreigners are self-employed compared to 6.6 percent among the native-born. Increased immigration to the United States has increased the earnings of Americans with more than a high school degree. Between 1990 and 2004, increased immigration was correlated with increasing earnings of Americans by 0.7 percent and is expected to contribute to an increase of 1.8 percent over the long-term, according to a study by the University of California at Davis. Immigrants boost demand for local consumer goods. The Immigration Policy Center estimates that the purchasing power of Latinos and Asians, many of whom are immigrants, alone will reach $1.5 trillion and $775 billion, respectively, by 2015. Now on to your other point, you are right women don't deserve more rights than men and men don't deserve more rights than women, but the fact is in America the genders are not equal. Violence and sexual harassment is still a big issue if that is not evident after the start of the #MeToo and the #TimesUp movements. Women are still subject to high rates of gender-based violence and. Nearly one in four women will be a victim of sexual assault in her lifetime, and most of rape survivors are young women and girls. Though campus assault is certainly bad, the problems don"t stop for women when they graduate college, even if victims don"t continue to experience violence or harassment. One of the things that people often forget is that this is an issue that isn"t just affecting women while they"re in college, but can also affect women their whole lives. In addition to the very real problem that one in four women is being sexually assaulted before she graduates college, there"s the fact that women need to get a good education to compete in the economy today, but often survivors of sexual assault on campus are either forced to delay their education or even drop out of school. There"s no way that women can compete for jobs on a level playing field if they can"t even get through college without this threat of sexual assault. There are still many problems for women when it comes to career opportunities. When we see people like Hillary Clinton shattering major glass ceilings and taking huge steps for women, it"s inspiring. But, while Hillary is a symbol of great strides in women"s equality and careers, we still have a long way to go. Women still face rampant discrimination and harassment in the workplace, from being kept out of leadership roles or certain fields entirely, to not being properly accommodated or supported while pregnant or after giving birth. "[There"s an] under representation of women in leadership in state houses and government congress, and the board room, which obviously speaks to a failure to achieve full equality," Sherwin says. "And the statistics are worse for women who are at the intersection of multiple forms of discrimination, like women of color, women who transitioned, and women with disabilities." Even though women make up almost half of the work force, they only hold 25% of executive-, senior-, and manager-level jobs, 19% of board seats, and 4.6% of CEO roles, according to a report conducted by Catalyst, "The Women"s Leadership Gap." The numbers are worse when you look specifically at the STEM fields. According to the National Girls Collaborative Project, women make up only 29% of the science workforce, and an even smaller percent for many specific fields, like mechanical engineers (8%) and physicists and astronomers (11%). In Silicon Valley, women held anywhere from 10 to 27% of technology jobs at nine major Silicon Valley companies, like Twitter. That same year, almost half of the 150 highest-earning public companies in Silicon Valley had no female executive officers. And then there"s the unfortunate reality of how women are treated even if they do get into fields and roles that are typically male-dominated. "Sexual harassment is a major issue that can prevent women from entering fields and spaces that have been traditionally male preserved," Sherwin says. According to the report, "Elephant in the Valley," which surveyed more than 200 women in tech, 60% of women in tech have reported unwanted sexual advances, 87% have received demeaning comments from male colleagues, and 84% have been told they were too aggressive. Not only does this inequality keep women out of careers they would otherwise pursue, but it also affects their financial health. These types of job discrimination and structural barriers to equality and employment contribute to not only income disparity in the short term, but also disparities in the short term, but also disparities in long-term economic security, which leads to a disproportionately high poverty rate among women. An unfair tax that targets proves further that there isn't gender equality. Though a handful of states have made moves to abolish the so-called "tampon tax," which classifies feminine hygiene products as non-necessities and subjects them to a "luxury" tax, many more states still charge it. "The tampon tax is still a huge issue rooted in inequality," Jordan Kier and Alex Friedman, co-founders of organic tampon company, LOLA says. "Tampons are a necessary product to help manage a natural (and amazing!) biological process and should not be considered a luxury item. When you consider the fact that men aren't taxed for Rogaine (and sometimes, Viagra), it's easy to feel like we're taxed for being women." And the tampon tax doesn"t just mean women have less money to spend on other things. For low-income women, this additional fee can be the difference between being able to afford feminine hygiene products and not being able to get them at all. Now back to the real question at hand: are liberals ruining America. No, they are not. -Different political parties and different perspectives and ideal make and check a good democratic government. -They believe the government should make the starting line the same for everyone no matter your race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other characteristics. -Liberals are people a lot like you, who want the country to do better economically and socially. They've got different ideas than yours on exactly how to do it. Generally, they think that the Government's job is to protect workers from abuses of power by employers, to support the free-market economy by preventing destabilizing abuse and injecting money when it's necessary to boost spending, and that the Government shouldn't tell anybody what to do with their personal lives, nor is it the Government's business to dictate what is "traditional." Essentially, the ideal liberal attitude is do what you want, so long as it doesn't hurt other people.