Today we watched a video about the debit crisis. By 2020 all our tax revenue will go to medicare, medicade, social security, and interest. Medicare is health insurance for elderly. Medicade for health insurance for poor people like if they dont have any with their job or if they dont have a job. Social security is a pay roll tax the goverment takes out the money and it goes towards your retirement. We are currently paying for people that are already retired. Interest is something that you can make more money off of money someone owes you or that is setting in the bank. Only 250.7 billion will leftover by important things like the military and the highway things. They could raise taxes and cut programs to get more money so we'd have more money for the other important things. But the goverment doesnt do that because people wouldnt be happy so they just keep raising the debt ceiling. Today we continued our blog posts again.1.Update on the candidates running for President in 2012/Iowa Straw Poll-Iowa straw poll is held in ames iowa before. Its informal just gives them some good press and motivation. Michelle Bachman got the most votes shes from minniosota2. South Sudan-40 out of the last 50 years Sudan has been in civil war. Ended in 2005. July 9 they became the newest country of the world. why they were at war; ethnic groups, religions, wanted to gain control of south. People in North Sudan are Arib. South is Black Africans. From the north Islamic from the south are Catholic. Most oil is in the South, and they have better farmland.3. Libya-people in libya wanted freedom and stuff and then gadafi told his people to kill innocent people so he could keep his power. we set up a no fly zone so more people could be protected.4. US Supreme Court and videogames-its the parents who have to watch this not the goverment ruled in favor of the people.5. New York and gay marriage-Tried passing it two times.6. Drawdown in Afghanistan-President obama said 10,000 troops will be out of there by this year. Will be completely out in 2014 hopefully. we are pulliung out ad letting the people fight for themselves.7. Al-Zawahri and al-Qaeda-al-Qaeda is a terrorist group the leader was osama bin ladan. they have diffrent small groups all over the place. Al-Zawahiri hes the new leader of al-qaeda. he was a physician. Had a part in a bombing.8. US debt ceiling crisis-problem and solution- started in WW2. the goverment keeps raising the debt ceiling, but everytime we raise it we go more in debt.9. NFL lockout-problem and solution- It was because the players wanted more money but the owners thought they were getting too much money. they wanted an 18 game season so they could get more money and stuff.10. US/French Embassies attacked in Syria-11. Famine in Somalia-somalia has been without an orignized goverment for 20 years. Second worst drought they've has in 50 years. 10s of thousands have died because of malnutrion.12. Norway incident-The end of July this guy named bravick parked a car in front of the exuctive building that blew up killing a lot of people. A couple hours later he went to an island and he dressed up as an officer told the lots of people to gather around for safety reasons and he started to fire. The island was a summer camp so he was killing young teenagers. Many people say this is like the oklahoma bombing. They arrested him and no more than 21 years in jail. He might get out sooner since 21 years is his max.13. Women's World Cup-look at history of Women's World Cup and results-Its a soccer tournament where all these countries get together and compete. It started in 91 (the womens). Happens every 4 years. Japan, America twice, Germany twice, and Norway have one over the years.
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