Essay 3 Ideas

There's a lot of topics I think I can work with for this essay. One issue that came to mind was the decrease in content in certain food products whithout changing the price accordingly. Personally, I find this practice wrong and they were better off increasing the price of the food. I think this method is dishonest as many people don't examine the exact amount of ounces in the product so when they go home they realise they just spent the same price on an item with even less content. Several retailers keep the price the same to subtly increase their profit margins. And honest solution would be to lower the price of the item if the amount of content has been decreased or increase the price to make up for loss of income if the amount of content hasn't changed. One of the few solutions I can think of regarding this would be to boycott certain goods that have changed their value in such a way and possibly petitioning for a more honest method of profit margining. This is just an idea though, not sure if I'll follow through with it just yet.
Another interesting topic was brought up recently regarding the drug cartels running rampant at the Mexican/American border. Several people have been targeted by these blood thirsty cartels and Mexican officials have been rendered useless by active threats of death. It is almost getting to the point that military action needs to take place in order to eliminate these cartels or at least minimize their threat. They get much of their business from across the border and they have many drug runners going through each day. It's a broken record argument but I think we may need to reinforce our border in order to try and cut off their revenue. These are two of the ideas I've come up with so far, might think of more in the future though.