PLN 13: Impeach Bush Ornament

The reason why I read this article about the women who was asked to paint an ornament for the White House’s Christmas tree, was because we had just talked about it in class, and I found it on AOL. According to this article a women from Seattle (Washington) was asked by the First Lady to paint a holiday ornament for the Christmas tree in the White house. When the ornament arrived there, it was decorative, but not in a way that was expected. It said how we should impeach Bush all over it. Merry Christmas. NOT. I think that this article just shows how rude some people can be, and it teaches you that you will meet people in life that will be completely oblivious to what everyone else cares about, and you might run into it, and you will have to deal with it.

PLN 12: Depression

In the news article I read about the Depression and Working Moms, these people did a survey on, obviously working moms, but how the economy, and where they are financially really effect their stress levels. The article said 91% of working moms, have felt symtoms of depression. That’s incredible, moms already are stressed out because they have to work to make money, and they have to watch their kids, or wonder where they are all the time, pick them up from school, etc. I think that this could, or in the past, already has affected my life, because my mom has a huge impact in my life, and when shes depressed she takes it out on us, because she needs to let go of things, I believe that’s called regression, but I’m not a psychology whiz. But if my mom isn’t having a good day, as soon as I get home, I know exactly what kind of day she is having, and she hasn’t been too happy lately. So I can relate this article to my life because I think that my mom has/is being impacted by the economy, and again financially, and I think that’s its affecting her emotions, and the way she acts towards her everyday life.

PLN 11: Black Friday

In the Article I read about Black Friday, a man in Garden City, New York, was standing in line waiting for a Wal-Mart to open, just like the rest of the USA does on the day after Thanksgiving. The article went on to say that as soon as the door opens to let the buying customers in, the crowd all ran forward, and the man was trampled to death. The man's family filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart for this instance. I think that this might affect my life, because I was one of the millions of people in this country that woke up at 2 in the morning to get the good deals. The reason that this article has changed the anxiety for me is because there always is a chance that I might get trampled. But last Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving 2008) I went with my neighbor to Best Buy, and I ended up spending $780 on a whole Xbox 360 package, and I figured out the I saved over $300.

PLN 10: Bill & John

First of all, I’m going to start with saying that this video was pretty darn funny. This video features Bill O’Reilley, and John Stewart, and they debated about how Bill kept saying that he was scared about what Obama is going to do, because he doesn’t know what he’s going to do. This matters to me and the world for that matter because, if we are about to elect a new president into office, wouldn’t you want to know what he’s planning on doing? Another issue with Obama was that his statistics changed every single time he discussed over an interview, what his policies were explaining. Bush put this country way down financially, of course because of the war, and oil prices and global warming this stuff all ties into one another. The people were a little confused, and yet a little scared at first like Bill said, that Obama kept manipulating his policies every time he looked into a camera. 

PLN: 9 Obama's Victory Speech

In Barak Obama’s victory speech, the United States being one people mattered most. He talked about how “we are not just red states and blue states… We are the united states of America!” I was one of those people who wanted McCain to win, and after that speech my thoughts about him changed. He also incorporated part of President Lincoln’s speech into his, which again, talked about how we are all one people, and we are going to get through everything that will take place in the next 4 years together. This affects my life, because after hoping that McCain would take the election from Obama, it was a relief to me, and probably other people too, to hear how well he spoke in Chicago that night.

PLN 8: Economic debt

In the video U.S. Economy and Financial System Bankrupt --What's next?, submitted by singletreefilms, it talked about how we are bankrupt, because we spend to much money everyday, and our competing countries are paying their workers 75% to 95% less money for the same work that they do. In simpler terms, that’s called cheap overproduction. To fix this problem, we tried moving some of our biggest money making facilities to different parts of the world. For example, last year we moved a Chrysler dealership to Mexico. Yet the economic results weren’t too high still. So we took the factory apart and moved it to China. We made some money. The point of this is, is that if we started globalizing more businesses; we might start making some money to get rid of our debt. I think that this affects my life because, even know we don’t think about it, but our country is in some serious debt, and when we start voting against raising or lowering taxes, we need to stop to think about what’s best for the country. We didn’t get where we are today because of one person, we got here because we are a nation of people, and we decided what was best for everyone, and not one person/ourselves in particular.

PLN 7: OPEC's Oil Prices

In this video about OPEC’s Oil prices, money matter most to them. In the video, it was saying how OPEC decided to cut 1.8 million barrels of oil that the sell, because there isn’t as high of a demand for oil, and their theory is that it will eventually get more people to buy oil, and then there will be a larger demand for it again, and then they will raise prices again, and end up making the money that they want. This affects my life because, oil prices are going down, and this will save my parents money, and we will be able to do more fun things as a family, because we have saved money. It will also save money for the whole economy, so we might be seeing a more booming economy, because more and more people now have money to spend.