Something About Nothing

I found this very straight forward commentary on the Real Clear Politics blog. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/blog The commentary on this article is very to the point in shaming The Huffington Post for not reporting on real news and trying to sell papers with tabloid headlines. This blog is more associated with right wing politics, but this commentary is really for all to read. The author of the blog also goes on to point out more major news of the day and scolds The Huffington Post for not reporting real news and distorting the conversation of two senators to sell papers. This was written by Tom Bevan and he backs up his claim with a fact check by The New York Times. I completely agree with the author on this subject. Whatever happened to reporting the news? This paper shamelessly distorted the context of two senators just to sell some papers. I would expect such things from the tabloids by a grocery store checkout line but not a real news paper. Just like the author points out in his blog this was a headline on a day when the President announced his plans and policy for Afghanistan. It is funny that I could not find a commentary on that particular subject.

All Hail Obama

Obama’s Energy Future was an editorial article published in the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/opinion/26thu1.html The article is aimed almost directly at supporters of President Obama with a dim view of the previous President to help emphasize the points.
The article starts off by pointing out how politicians on the campaign trail make promises to the people and then accomplish none of them. President Obama’s main promises were concerning energy, health care, and education; the main focus in the article being energy. President Obama is being praised over making a decision with no backing for congress or legislature to support his views or ideas. President Obama’s economic recovery package is supposed to devote 80 billion dollars to the energy problems we are facing.
This article seems to me just to be another bash against the former President while praising the current one. President Obama may actually be pushing his agenda and getting American to start to see things about our energy crisis more clearly but even as the writer of this article states President Nixon tried o do the same thing with America’s dependency of foreign oil. Which is still a major concern is the U.S.
The article goes on to praise the President for giving speeches about the profits to be gained by American industries and workers if the America took the lead in manufacturing more efficient means of energy. While I believe that all the problems need to be addressed seriously I have heard enough talk and demand action.

Lets Just Throw Money at a Huge Problem and hope it goes away.

America, The Capalist Mecca of the world, has approved a bill to go to President Obama to sign for a 787 Billion Dollar stimulas package. Did any of the people who approved the bill even read it? Americans are always looking for a quick fix to whatever problems may arise but throwing billions of dollars that we dont have on a problem that we caused ourselves is not going to fix the probelm. The true probelm that we are facing is that "The Invisible Hand" http://plus.maths.org/issue14/features/smith/ is being held by our government, when the free market should be, well.... free. America whether anyone likes it or not is a capatalist society, therefore we should not be letting our government jump in the arena to bail out private banks and the all powerful automobile industy. Our county may be in a small slump but it is not nearly as bad as the great depression. Here is an unbaised article from the NY Times citing the congressional approval of a bill that we will not be able to pay back for generations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/14/us/politics/14web-stim.html?_r=1&ref=politics