New Federal Privacy Law!:

dont look at mah stuff... thats it, thats the law.

just kidding! im currently editing this post due to my atrocious spelling it will be online tonight :]

Reflection

In the process of making these blogs I am most proud of the strides that I have taken in my knowledge of the world i am apart of. I have actually taken a legitimate interest in the economy and the politics surrounding it.

In my future blogs i would like to do a few things differently. I want to find other kinds of articles instead of just political ones to see if I can recognize the connections in the text to what we are studying in class. I think that this will make my blogs much more interesting because there will be more of a variety.

In researching aarticles for my blogs my understanding of american politics and their influence in most news stories has become very clear. Whenever I learn a new concept in class I skim through articles in news sources and can relate the concept to the article. I feel like i acctually can understand it and develop an opinion on the situation it is taslking about. In many ways i feel like I am activle participating in our politics by keeping up on it and understanding it.

Wyatt Watts 6 Point Plan to Success

Fed’s $85 Billion Loan Rescues Insurer

By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and MARY WILLIAMS WALSH

Published: September 16, 2008
The New York Times

This article was reported by Edmund L. Andrews, Michael J. de la Merced and Mary Williams Walsh and written by Mr. Andrews.

WASHINGTON — Fearing a financial crisis worldwide, the Federal Reserve reversed course on Tuesday and agreed to an $85 billion bailout that would give the government control of the troubled insurance giant American International Group.

The decision, only two weeks after the Treasury took over the federally chartered mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is the most radical intervention in private business in the central bank’s history.

This article is about how the government is stepping in and aiding the stock market in an attempt to save our economy. I shared just a little bit but i am pretty sure you get the jist of it. Their solution is to give massive amounts of money to banks to bail them out of this oncoming "crisis."

If I were to give advice to the government it would be essentially along the same lines as what they are doing now. Help banks keep their head above water in order to keep peoples money in order. as far as private businesses go... sorry. I think that its their responsibility to keep their businesses successful, its a risk that they took making their investments.

In addition to that I think that they need to try and bring up the value of a dollar by not printing so much money. this will give our economy time to flourish. Once we have achieved this we can re-enter the world market back to full health.

My Faaaavvvv

I think that the most interesting thing that we have studied so far was the "common sense" writings by Thomas Paine. I thought that it was incredible that one man can influence this new country so much. Its pretty inspiring, and the political tactics he used in targeting undecided people still holds true today with modern politics. He shed light on many things that i would have completely overlooked when studying the revolution. The topics of debate within our class could defiantly have taken up quite a lot of time using Thomas Paine's writing as a catalyst. It is the gold standard of a persuasive writing and its sad that only six people came to his funeral. seriously what happened there?

Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist

In this article Presidential candidate Barrak Obama accuses the republicans of using "swift boat politics." stating that presidential candidate John Mccain is campaigning for exactly the same thing the current administration has been doing.

These are very strong words for Obama to use against Mccain and I think he is taking an Anti-federalist stance on our government in an attempt to win over the American people who he says agrees with him. As an Anti-federalist he thinks that the government is to strong and there needs to be "change" in our current goverment wile John Mccain (the federalist in this situation) is campaigning to keep our government a strong one, more or less the same.

This situation is a classic example of a federalist vs. anti federalist situation that still remains present today. I think it is awesome the the same debate that was going on during the conception of our government still rages on today.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/10/campaign.wrap/index.html

CNN's Alexander Mooney contributed to this report.

Got it right the second time (Edited)

"New Orleans Starts Up But Not at Full Power"

The New York Times
Sept 4, 2008

By: Adam Nossiter

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/us/05orleans.html?ref=us

In the wake of hurricane Gustave New Orleans is moving citizens back into to the city, restoring power and getting back to normal with incredible speed. This is a 180 degree difference from hurricane Katrina where there was no orders to evacuate and help came days to late. The governor of Louisiana has instated hundreds of power generators, and ordered a mandatory evacuation before the hurricane. They are hoping that the system could keep up through the rest of hurricane season.

I thought that this whole situation had a bit of a bitter taste because it took them a devastating hurricane in order to get it right. this reminded me of the concept from the enlightenment about a "social contract" Which means that the only reason a government exists in to represent and protect the people. The government should have protected the citizens of Louisiana during hurricane Katrina instead of trying to make up for their negligence now. As the governor of Louisiana stated in the article they got it right the second time;

"All over the city there were haunting reminders of the period after Hurricane Katrina — traffic lights out, for instance, and in some cases knocked to the ground by high winds — but also clear indications that Hurricane Gustav was utterly different: people sitting on their front porches, only three days after the storm."

The goverments

I read a headline on the New York Times web page that reminded me very much of the life, liberty and persuite of happiness, It read "American Forces attack militants on Pakistani soil." The article explained that some fighting between American special forces and Al Queda militants occurred in Pakistan. The article discusses plans to work with Pakistan to help fight terrorism, and some kind of plan about working with Nato forces in the area. The reason why i chose this article was because this is the very first thing I had read in a very long time involving the war on terror. Fighting the people that jepordised our life and liberty back in 2001. It seems that between the Iraq war and presidential elections going on right now our governments priorities are not with the war. I learned in class that a government only exists because of a social contract and hat a government must protect out life and liberty. and though we still are engaged in this war the government is focused on their own agenda instead of representing and protecting the people as they should.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/world/asia/04attack.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin