First address to Congress.

I reviewed an article from the USA Today titled Facing hard times, Obama sells case for responsibility. The article is about the first presidential address that aired on Tuesday night (24 Feb. 09). The authors who wrote the opinion was speaking to every American that is worried the direction the nation is heading. The article is focus mostly on spending such as the deficit and the current debt of America, and then leading up to issues us as Americans face with surging cost of Medicare and Medicaid. The author has added links in the article to go along with what they are writing about. The author makes a statement saying “For a quarter-century, neither party has proved up to the task.” When I saw the title of the article I was very interested to read the writers opinions, but I felt the article was a little short only about 550 words for such a topic as big as it has been. The speech was close to one hour long so there was plenty to talk about. The author doesn’t give a lot of opinion to the topic, but mostly just explaining the situation and the issues that we face. The author goes on to compare President Obama to the former President Ronald Regan, I feel that this to early of a comparison because of the short time President Obama has been in office that is something that can be better compared after he has served more time. I did agree with what was said in the story because the lack of their opinion to the article, but very disappointed also.

PA judges accused of jailing kids for cash

Here is a good story that I had seen earlier and found it on the web. The story is about two Pennsylvania Judges that were taking bribes to make juveniles sentence longer than it should have been. This article is a perfect example of how people will do anything to someone else, even a child to better benefit themselves. This is one way that our tax money was going down the drain, this article makes you wonder how much money is wasted in other areas for similar situations. I was shocked to see some of the sentences these children got for crimes that were hardly anything and the number of victims it happened to. Yahoo News