NY Times article

The American Economy may be slowing down and may continue to get worse. However, Americans have been through this before. Economies have always had there highs and lows. I believe there is always a solution to the problem and it will be found eventually. The government may or may not be making mistakes, but government changes and eventually someone else's ideas will be brought into practice. The slow down may be good for the United States. Maybe Americans need to be woken up and stop spending themselves into debt. You cant have everything you want. The world will continue to run one way or another and the United States will realize that. The world should be able to run with out depending on the success of the United States economy. I don't think that interest rates should be lowered. The american dollar has already began to decrease in value and countries over seas are turning all there money into euros. The united states needs to find a solution for this before the currency is worth nothing.

bills

Face

I agree with the guy on the clip. I think that people should be smart about what they put on sites such as myspace and facebook. Employers have a right to look at a persons face book as a back ground check. It can be very helpfull in eliminatingg candidates. The easiest way to solve the problem is to not put stuff on there that you wouldnt want your emploer to see. You can put pictures and information about yourself on the site without it being something that an employer looks at as demeaning. Face book is a good idea for college students to meet and talk to new people. However the students should realize that anybody can access the site and you never know who that could be.

China News post

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/world/asia/14china.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

This article talks about China's third largest fresh water lake, Lake Tai. The lake was an important natural source of agriculture for rice patties and a excellant source of fish. The lake became infected withc toxiz cyanobacteria, referred to as pond scum. The lake turned a flouresant green color and smelled for miles away. The article also explains of a man named Mr. Wu who was trying to help save the enviroment but is limited in China and eventually lost his job and arrested. My reactions was to this is that i think that the biggest problem in the world today is pollution and development. Almost everywhere you go you can see gaarbage along the road beacause people are to lazy to find a trash i guess. Large developments who are great for the economy also have a harmful effect with chemicals and poluting the enviroment. I think the world needs to find a solution to these problems because the enviroment is being destroyed. In china the polllution problem is at a all time hight because the communist party fears that enviromentalist are a threat. They worry about the those that speak out rather than the air and soil being polluted. As for the man arrested, i feel very bad for him. He was only trying to help the enviroment but he is restricted in his actions fearing the consequences he could face. The man trying to do good for China, was eveuntaully arrested and lost his job. Why should people be punished for trying to fix amajor problem faced by the world today. I think that is wrong. The world has changed in that it puts its economy and development over its enviroment, which i feel is wrong.

something that really bugs me

Not a lot of things really bug me but there a few. One thing that really bugs me i when people change around other people. Someone may act a certain way but then act totally different around other people to try to be "cool". Some may act nice to one person to their face but when they are around other people they may talk about the first person to fit in with the person they are now around. I guess its like going behind someones back but only to fit in. It just bugs when people think they should change for someone else. Another thing that bugs me is when someone wants attention all the time. People that want the spot light on them will do anything to try to get it and observing that bugs me a little bit. There isn't alot of things that really bug me.