Technology has affected our way of life in a negative way. Although technology has brought upon many positives to today’s way of living, technology has also brought upon a couple negatives such as make people lazier and dumber. Everyone, especially consumers of technology, should pay attention to the negatives that technology can bring towards today's way of living. To support this position, Nicholas Carr from The Atlantic states that technology has affected the way he reads in a negative way. As a matter of fact, Carr finds that technology has not only affected his way of reading, but technology has affected the way many people today read. Tim Wu from The New York Times also argues that technology has brought upon some negatives. Wu makes a connection between improving technologies and increased diseases.  Technology has made people today lazier and somewhat dumber because technology has  made everything easier for everyone. People should pay attention because if society keeps relying heavily on technology, our society will get dumber and lazier.

 
     In Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Carr brings up the issue that technology has affected his way of reading in a negative way. Carr states, “…Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles.” (Carr 1) Carr also  finds that he is not the only one having this negative effect. Carr finds that blogger Bruce Friedman also has had trouble. Carr quotes Friedman say, “I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print.”(Carr 1) Carr argues that the distractions and knowledge the Internet brings has made society dumber.

     Tim Wu from The New York Times also argues that technology has brought many negative effects . Wu states in article “As Technology Gets Better, Will Society Get Worse?”, “Since the arrival of new technologies, the population has suffered a massive increase in morbid obesity, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes.” (Wu 1) Along with the negative effect on health, Wu goes on to state the negative effect technology has on social problems. Wu states, •Social problems are rampant: idleness, alcoholism,  drug addiction, and suicide have reached some of the highest levels on Earth.” (Wu 1) Wu does a good job of presenting the negative effects technology can have on health and socially.

     Technology has not only made today’s society dumber and lazier, but it has also affected people’s health and social behavior in a negative way. Nicholas Carr from The Atlantic does a good job presenting and showing that technology has affected the way people read in a wagging way. Tim Wu from The New York Times does a good job showing the negative effects technology can have on an individual's health and social behavior. It is important to pay attention to these negatives because society has relied heavily on technology today, and these negative effects have become a reality to many people. If society keeps relying on technology as heavily as today, these health risks will keep increasing and our society will keep getting dumber and lazier. People have to start taking initiative on their own and stop relying on technology.

 

Immigration

The United States should not give amnesty to illegal immigrants that are moving and increasing the population in the United States. The United States cannot afford to give amnesty to illegal immigrants that are moving into the United States because they are making the job market more competitive and could cost the country a lot of money. President Obama, all U.S. Politicians and all Americans should recognize the possible negative effects to  the United States in granting amnesty to illegal immigrants. According to Ed Butowsky from Fox News, granting amnesty to illegal immigrants into the United States is something that America cannot afford.  Nicholas Kristof from The New York Times, argues immigration can lead to many positive things in the United States, for example illegal workers with work permits can contribute money into the payroll taxes to the United States. Giving amnesty to illegal immigrants is not a good idea because it will cost the United States a lot of money and will make the job market very difficult because of scarcity of jobs. Granting amnesty to illegal immigrants can make it more difficult for many Americans to get a job and could increase the financial burden for the United States.

Ed Butowsky, a journalist for Fox News, argues that President Obama’s idea of giving amnesty illegal immigrants into our country is not a good idea. Butowsky argues that giving amnesty to illegal immigrants into the United States will cost the country a lot of money and bury the country into an even deeper financial burden. Butowsky states, “…each illegal immigrant costs our country $24,000 a year. But, on average, each pays $10,000 in taxes, so it’s reasonable to say that each illegal really adds $14,000 a year to our country’s debt burden.”(Butowsky, 1) Butowsky then adds on, “Now multiply that $14,000 by the 5 million illegal immigrants we might grant amnesty, and we’re out a mere $70 billion.”(Butwosky, 1) Having a national debt of 18 trillion already, it would not be smart for the United States to agree on giving amnesty to illegal immigrants into our country because it would just make our financial burden worse than it already is.

Also, giving amnesty to illegal immigrants into the United States is not a good idea because illegal immigrants will make the job market tougher than what it already is. Ed Butwosky states, “So how many new jobs do we need to create to offset the $70 billion we’ll have to pay if the president grants amnesty to 5 million illegal immigrants? Divide 70 billion by 12, 500 and you get…5.6 million new full-time jobs...Is this possible? Sadly no.”(Butowsky, 1) There just aren’t enough jobs in the United States to satisfy the amount of people the United States will contain if the country grants amnesty to illegal immigrants. Not enough jobs lead to an increase of unemployment, which leads to an increase of poverty.

However, Nicholas Kristof from The New York Times argues that immigration can lead to many positives for the United States. Kristof first addresses the argument that illegals are “parasites”. Kristof states, “At the state and local level, households headed by unauthorized immigrants paid $11 billion in taxes in 2010 alone. If these migrants are given work permits and brought into the system, they will contribute $45 billion over five years in payroll taxes to the United States economy.”(Kristof, 1) Kristof then addresses the belief that immigrants threaten our way of life by saying that immigration has hugely enriched our country and then states, “Nations, like carpets, benefit from multiple kinds of threads...” (Kristof, 1)

It is important for Americans to see and realize the positives and negatives in granting amnesty to illegal immigrants into the United States. It is important for Americans to realize by giving amnesty to illegal immigrants; it will cost the United States a lot of money and will make the job market very difficult because of scarcity of jobs. It’s important to realize this because Americans themselves will be affected both negatively and positively by the illegal immigrants coming into our country.