more war

There has been another strike on the Libya forces via missiles. the point of this attack was to drive back the Libyan forces away from the rebel-held cities. the missiles were sent by the western forces. the United States says that the missile attack help them greatly because it diminished much of the Libyan air defenses.
i think that it is good that the united states, Britain, and France are all becoming involved in helping the Libyan government because they need help. the fact that a no fly zone has been created will help the citizens greatly as well. the reason for the no fly zone is to protect the citizens from the air attacks on Libya from the opposing sides.

broke and broker

So the government is debating if they should lay off workers or not. it is a big controversy over weather it would be good or bad for the government. This may not be as bad as everyone thinks it will be. basically the only people that will be getting cut off will be the people that are not of a necessary to the government, such as the postal services and the prisons.
i think that this may be exactly what we need. we need help getting out of this and the only way we can do this is cutting this part of the budget. the postal services will stay which everyone needs and the prisons will still be occupied by guards. So even though the jobs will be cut the ones that we will not be cut.

So japan is pretty much had the worst weekend of all of us. First there was a huge earthquake. The earthquake was recorded at 9.8 on the open end Richter scale, this being the biggest earthquake of japans history, but this is not the end. Within 2 hours of this massive earthquake a tsunami that was recorded at 10 meters high hit the east coast of Japan. This sweep away boats cars houses and people, and if this wasn't enough there were also nuclear plants that were in danger of exploding.
so i have decided that i am never gonna say that i had a horrible weekend cause nothing could be worst thank first your house getting shook to the ground, then it getting sweep away by a lot of water, then getting warned and evacuated cause Japan is gonna blow up. I sat all day and watched college basketball and i thought my weekend was bad. i feel bad for those who lost everything within 2 hours.

gas gas gas

this is pretty much saying that oil is on the rise again and there is being little done to help our problem. The only thing that the politicians are doing to help is pointing fingers at the others on the other side of the oil wheel. The problem is that they are not looking at a long term solution to the problem. They are talking on the same points as before, and the problem with this is that the problems were solved only for a short while.
I think that this is a big deal because not only does this affect our travel but it effects so much more than that. the use of oil is so huge that we can not keep up with the needs of the country. we have peaked at the amount of oil that we have and now its to a point where we are going to need to find something new to supply for us. If they really wanna help us they need to stop talking on the same things and start looking for a bigger plan.

air strike

There has been a new air strike in Libya. The latest of the air strikes was along the main road while the air crafts were heading toward the opposition-controlled town of Ras Lanuf. There had been an out break in the oil mining town and many of the locals fled the area so as to separate themselves from the situation.
i think that this is crazy. everything that is happening over there. over the weekend i heard that the president of Libya said that he was gonna blow up all the oil fields. i think this is crazy, i mean i really don't know if that is true but if the president did do that it would but the whole world in and economic down turn and probably ruin life as we know it.

protest

there are many union workers that are now protesting in the capital. they are saying that they are starting to cut the wages of the pensions. they say that the pension could not work because if they tried to do it they would end up paying more in pensions then they would their current workers. they say that if they want to continue the pensions they have to cut workers jobs and pay rate. many private businesses have ended their pensions because the can not afford it.
i think that the pensions should just be ended. there has to be other ways to pay the old workers. the people that are not working anymore should not be able to take away the money that should be going to the people that are working now. if they do that many people will leave. they also want to raise taxes, and that would be bad because then no businesses will have money. this means that there can be no more jobs because businesses wont be able to afford to hire anyone.

Obama and the house

this article is about the new budget that Obama has set. they say that the new budget is the first clear plan of the budget cuts that we have seen since Obama took office. They are also saying that there is a problem with all of this because the budget is not focusing on the long term economic things that many agree need to be looked upon. They say that the budget is dealing with the small less long term economic problems.
i think that they need to improve this budget cut because by the sounds of it Obama is just scared to make a big decision that may be the do or die point for the U.S. I understand how it could be scary to be the one to make that proposal, but it has to be done and Obama is the president at this point and it is him who needs to make that decision.

protesting

So basically what has happened in Tunisia is that during a protest to make the police chief step down from his position two people were killed and 17 others were injured after police fired into the crowd. In Egypt the military has just made Mr. Mubarak step down from power by using 18 nationwide anti-government protests. All of the articles are dealing with protest that have either worked or turned out ugly.
I think that these articles are good because they are showing us what is going on over there. it is showing us how hard the government is willing to push to keep themselves in power. The bad part of all this is that the protesters are now in danger because of all of the fighting and the aggression shown by the police.

Egypt

The problem in Egypt as of right now is that the tourism rate has dropped so much that it has put Egypt into a spiraling downfall that is increasing in speed. this economic downfall has been a result of the uprise against the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. this is bad because the tourism makes up for more than 11 percent of gross domestic profit, and the cease of tourism has caused more than 650 million pounds in lost revenue.
i think that the problem is very big. this is such a huge problem because not only is the economy of Egypt going down the drain but the brotherhood that is coming into the area may come to power and this would not be good. mostly because Egypt is a very calm country regarding the U.S, and if the brotherhood comes to power they will not be that good to the U.S or Egypt itself.

health care

Pretty much this whole article is based around this one guy, supreme court justice Anthony Kennedy. Basically this article is talking about this bill that is trying to get passed that is involving the health care system. District court Judge Roger Vinson had ruled the law unconstitutional when it was brought to his court and since that the helth care reforn law has a 2-2 record in the federal courts, having two district judges for it and two against it.
I think that this helth care reform law could help our country greatly but we can not yet say how it will turn out in the end. i personally do not see what is so unconstitutional about this law but it will not be my word or thoughts that are used to make the desicion. i think that supreme court justice Anthony Kennedy will make a very good desision if it even gets that far.

lucas first blog

the republicans are pretty much using the Obama administration so that they can get what they want. the republicans are saying that they will not raise the price ceiling of the U.S spending limit if the Obama Administration does not cut the spending budget. the problem with all of this is that the U.S has begun to pay off debts with other debts.

there is a huge problem with this because when a country has to pay off one debt with another debt it is bad. once the price ceiling is reached and there is no more room to borrow this means that there will be no more money for the U.S to borrow and if this happens then the U.S with have no other choice but to file for default.