Opinion Critique

This week I'm doing a critique of a editorial written by Paul Krugman of The New York Times, in his editorial he is talking about the new budget and the speech that President Obama had on Thursday. I believe the intended audience of this article is pretty much everyone, because this new budget effects all of us in someway or another. It was meant to be read by Americans who are intrested in their government, and would like to further understand what this new budget will do and effect their everyday lives. As far as Mr. Krugman's credbility i honestly do not know how credible he is, but on a guess i think he seems like he knows what he's talking about, i felt very informed after i read his article and thought he did a great job.
Mr. Krugman really likes what the President is trying to accomplish in his new budget, he espically likes that over the next decade the budget allocates $634 billion dollars toward health reform and $645 billion dollars in revenue in from the sale of emission allowances after years of denial and delay from former President Bush. I totally agree with him on this because health insurance is by far the most important thing in this country and it's sad to know that millions of people still don't have health insurance. The $634 billion is nowhere near enough for Health insurance, but its a very good start for the Obama administration. Mr. Krugman also believes with this new budget that Obama can make good on his promise to cut the national debt from 1.75 trillion this year to less than a third as much in 2013, now on this i'm not quite sure but i have faith in Obama to get us out of this foxhole but then again 1.75 trillion dollars is also ALOT of money. Mr. Krugman shows a good attitude toward the President and believes what he is trying to do is for the best, he does wish the President would have gone into more detail as far what he was goning to do with the budget. He understands that things aren't going to change overnight but thats okay, he say's as long as were going foward we'll make out of this in no time.

More Trouble In the Middle East

This article was written by Richard Oppel Jr., Abdul Waffa and Sangar Rahimi of the New York Times, they wrote about an attack that just happen this past week in Afghanistan.

On Wednesday, Taliban suicide bombers and gunman put together a very complex and well coordinated attack against government buildings in Afghanistan. The attack that killed about twenty people and wounded fifty-seven more and showed how easy Taliban forces could penetrate the heavily guarded buildings in Afghanistan's capitol. All eight of the bombers and gunman were killed in the struggle, but the U.S military say's that they didn't do a good enough job of tracking ten's of thousands of weapons they brought to the Afgan forces, leaving the idea that they might have been stolen or sold to Taliban Forces.

You can read the complete article here:
http://www.statesman.com/search/content/news/stories/world/02/12/0212afghan.html

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