Federal Budget Blog Entry: Issue #2

The background of the article was about National Debt also known as Governmental Debt. The Article also talked about the US Teasury and Earmarks. This talks about the priorities like the federal budget, of congress and the president. The article aslo describes the federal budget process and how the budgeting for the government works. The Deficit is also talked about. A deficit is when the government speands more money than they take in in a year. This is one of the major reasons there is a huge national debt of about $12 trillion. Another reasono for the huge debt is due to Social Security. The governent is having a hard time trying to figure out how to budget without getting rid of other things (pay-as-you-go) or raising taxes. There are aloth of problems with the way our countries budget it run.

I think that the pay-as-you-go plan could be very benificial to our economy because it would not allow an incease in the deficit or the national debt. Even though this plan does not lower the debt right away, i believe that it could potentially lower it because then people are more aware of their money and spendings so eventually we would lessen our national debt.

similar opinion on pay-as-you-go plan: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/09/obama-calls-pay-approach-spending/

Deep South Braces For Big Snow

Last Friday, the people of the area from Texas to Georgia were preparing for a huge snow storm and blizzard. About 800 flights in and out of one Atlanta Airport were cancelled due to the approaching storm system. Another storm system was to hit the mississippi area with about 5 inches of snow. By friday morning parts of Texas had more that 12.5 inches of snow. Another interesting thing that happened due to these storms is that many towns don't even have road salt on hand because there is so little snow that does land in the southern region of the United States. These are just a few stories from the southern United States due to the rare snow fall in that area.

I thought this was an interesting story due to the fact that it hardly ever snows in those areas. I think it is weird that it is snowing there. It always makes me wonder what is going on in the atmosphere and what is making the changes. I think that the changes are due to people around the world are not taking care of the only eart we have. Pretty soon i think the north will be hot and the south will be cold. Everything will be backwards or opposite of what it has been for many many years and decades.

Source/Article
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/weather/02/12/winter.snow.storms/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Micheal Jackson's doctor is turning himself in.

On friday Micheal Jackson's Physician, Conrad Murray, is going to turn himself in for the homicide of Jackson. Jackson was given sleeping aid drugs to help him sleep, given to him by Murray. These drugs were given to Jackson in the early morning of his death when he soon fell asleep. Murray was said to have left the room for " no more that 2 min" and when he returned Jackson was not breathing and quickly rushed to a near by hospital. After trying CPR Jackson was pronounced dead at about 230 on june 26th. Now Murray is finally going to turn himself in without too much publicity.

I thought this article was interesting because i hadn't really heard too much about micheal Jackson's death. I really enjoy his music and it is nice to know exactly what happened. It is also sad to here that Jackson's trusted Physician would try and succeed in killing him.

Car Crashes into a Casino

On wednesday at about 9:30, an elderly man from Nevada crashed his car into the Laughlin casino. The man was said to have had "a medical episode" that is suspected to have caused the crash. Two people died from this crash. The victims were sitting as a large bank of slot machines when hit by the car. Five people including the man driving werealso rushed to the hospital.

I think this is an interesting story just becasue of where it happened and how it occured. I think it is interesting that someone crashed their car into a casino. I also understand the circumstances like the medical episode which makes me feel sad for the elderly mad. This article could bring up some contrevercial topics like how old is too old to drive? This is one thing that could be brought up due to this article.