Our Sputnik Movement

This cartoon shows NASA going to a planet; however there is a Chinese restaraunt on it. It represets, China being more technological advanced than we are as Americans.

Sputnik Movement

This cartoon shows how Obama wants this to be our Sputnik movement and on the spaceship it says Deficit. Also, he wants to get rid of the deficit in the process of revolutionizing America's economy. In a way, this movement is a way to shrink the deficit.

Hiring plans top layoffs by most in 12 years

Industry economists say the U.S. economic recovery is gaining strength, with more firms expressing positive hiring plans than in over a decade. Eighty-two percent of the economists expected the nation's economy to grow by two to four percent in 2011, up from 54 percent in October. The latest government data had the economy growing at a 2.6-percent annual rate in the July-September quarter. However, more layoffs were expected in the transportation, utility, information and communications sectors. Many results are expressed as Net Rising Index, or NRI (the percentage of panelists reporting better outlooks minus the percentage whose outlook is bleaker.) Economists who saw their companies' profits grow in the final quarter of 2010 outpaced those who saw margins shrink by an NRI of 21 percent.
The results of this survey show that our country is getting better. It would take time but we've made progress. Also, it's going to take a drastic event to completely turn our economy around.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Poll-Hiring-plans-top-layoffs-apf-2575460790.html?x=0

Next presidency thoughts

Today in class we touched on primaries for the presidency. That had me thinking a bit. Despite the fact that Obama has lived up to his expectations, who else can lead our country? I mean, there is no leader from the republican side and who else is going to run against Obama. I feel like he can be a great leader, but he needs time and cooperation. Because it's obvious no one else will step up to the plate. If our government doesn't play their cards right-after watching the news about the Arizona politicans- this country could be in for a rude awakening.

Kangaroo in Flood

This is a image of a kangaroo on a long representing the flood that occured in Austrailia this week. In the background i also shows the city drowning down too.

Tunisians drive leader from power in mass uprising

After 23 years of iron-fisted rule, the president of Tunisia was driven from power Friday by violent protests over soaring unemployment and corruption. Virtually unprecedented in modern Arab history, the populist uprising sent an ominous message to authoritarian governments that dominate the region. The country was under the caretaker leadership of the prime minister who took control, the role of the army in the transition was unknown, and it was uncertain whether Ben Ali's departure would be enough to restore peace. The government said at least 23 people have been killed in the riots, but opposition members put the death toll at more than three times that.
This u[rising might be one of many to come. In recent years we've seen problems in that area and I believe that they recognize that politically something isn't right.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110115/ap_on_bi_ge/af_tunisia_riots

Health Care System Fail

In the cartoon, the Congress is saying that the Healthcare reform failed, and that caused the violent acts in Arizona. Also, that the reform caused the man to be deranged. Then, they're going to use that as a way to try to repeal the bill.