Connor+Bowen

Connor Bowen


 * State**: Missouri


 * Political Party**: Moderate

I endorsed Mitt Romney for president. I agree with some of the issues he has brought up. I agree with his views against illegal immigration, abortions, and I am undecided for his views of same sex marriage. Illegal immigration is out of hand in the United States. We have shot innocent people that were assumed to be immigrate.I agree with his thoughts of abortions. Abortions need to stop and I think Mitt Romney can do it.
 * Mitt Romney**:


 * Purpose of Bill HB55:** The purpose of our bill is to enforce recycling, composting, and other environmentally friendly waste disposal. For each house-hold, there will be only one trash can. This will force resident to recycle or start a compost, so they do not fill their trash can with bottles and other recyclables. This will reduce the amount of trash in land-fills. 1.Residents will be provided with one standard 48 gallon trash can to use. Each resident has 60 credits; 52 of which they will use for each week of the year, 8 extra for the use of other cans they use within a year. For example, if a resident has a party they will use the extra credits for the extra cans. If they run out of credits, they must pay for the extra cans they used that week. This process will encourage recycling in each house-hold. Therefore, it will benefit the environment.


 * Reasons to Vote for Bill HB55:** I think people should vote for our bill because if we do not do something to start protecting our environment**.** We need to start taking care of our environment, and stop putting harmful gases in the air. If we stop we can reduce the harmful effects and create a health living atmosphere for future generations. Our bill is not expensive and will be easy to put in place as a law. our bill is just creating a new rule for the garbage companies and residents to follow.


 * Most Similar Representative**: [|Todd Akin] is my most similar representative. I chose him because we both share ideas on many issues. We share ideas on more than just the three issues i have selected for this page. Mr. Akin and I share ideas on the Economy, Health care, National Security, Energy, and Government Spending.

2. There are many unique amusement parks such as Silver Dollar City. 3. There are tons of malls and hundreds of outlets to shop at all over Missouri.
 * 5 Reasons to Visit Missouri:**
 * 1.** Many cities like Branson, Missouri offer many great shows such as musical reviews, plays, comedians, and more.
 * 4.** Hundreds of musicians come to Branson, Missouri to preform.
 * 5.** There is fantastic dining including some famous restaurants such as Dolly Parton's Stampede


 * 5 Interesting Facts About Missouri**:
 * a**. Missouri is known as the "Show Me State"
 * b**. The state animal is a mule.
 * c**. At the St. Louis world's fair in 1904, the ice cream cone was invented.
 * d**. At the St. Louis World's fair in 1904, Richard Blechyden, served tea with ice and ice tea was invented.
 * e**. on June 20, 1955, the flowering dogwood became Missouri's official tree.


 * Economy**
 * Agricultural**:Cattle, soybeans, hogs, dairy products, corn, poultry, and eggs.
 * Top Industries**: Express Scripts,Emerson Electric, Build-a-Bear Workshop.

There are many issues in America that need to or can be changed; in this paragraph I will talk about the issues that I feel are very important to success in America today. One issue that i feel is the bad economy. Taxes are rising (not really helping), gas prices are rocketing, welfare is rising taxes even more, and America can not be in more debt (particularly because no one will give us anymore money). America has dug a huge hole for future generations to figure a way out of. Our present government doesn't seem to be doing a whole lot. If anything it seems like they are making it worse.
 * 3 Important Issues**

Another issue is American obesity; about half the obese Americans are trying to lose weight. They run in to a problem when they try diets and exercising because gyms and diets are so expensive; this brings us back to the bad economy. Not only are the diets expensive, more then half of them don't even work the way they are said to work. Even some parents are responsible for their child's obesity. Parents around America are either over feeding their children, or are too scared to take the food away from them. America is the words largest country and we need to find a way to stop obesity; if that means shutting done the fast food restaurants that are resulting in bad food habits, and escalating childhood and adult obesity. We need to find a solution to this humongous problem.

My last that is very important to me is balancing state budgets. Even after Great Recession ending in 2009 the state budgets haven't fully gained there "footing". Some states are still falling short due to the a weak revenue performance. Financial meltdown and recession have thrown the state budgets out of balance. Anti-government voices are calling for steep budget cuts. State spending has increased to fund commitments such as providing medical care for people without health insurance and aiding urban schools.

Resources: States: [|50states,com/missouri] [|enchantedlearning.com] [] [] [] Issues: [|www.abc-clio.com] [|ncsl.org] [] [] []