Com 250 Discussion #4

The first thing I want to talk about is the current state of the nuclear problems in Japan. I heard recently is that the level of the problem had been upgraded to a seven out of seven. It had originally been rated as a five. According to what I heard, that means that it went from a problem like Three Mile Island to a problem like Chernobyl. That is a really big jump if you ask me, and it makes me wonder how they didn't know that right off the bat. I heard that quite a few experts said right away that this disaster was going to be worse than Chernobyl but yet officials were claiming that it was not all that bad. I just hope that the Japanese people can come back from this like they did after the US nuked them in World War II. The people who lived in Hiroshima and Nagasaki kept living there even after the bombs were dropped. I don't know how this rates compared to the bombs but I hope it doesn't come down to the same thing.

I read recently that Obama has said that Congress will reach an agreement about what to do about the budget soon. All I'll say about that is I'll believe it when I see it. I have never know Congress to ever do something just because the President says that it will happen. I doubt that Congress would agree on anything, even if it was going to war after we had been openly attacked by another country. They just seem to enjoy arguing about stuff because it means that they have less work to do. I'm of the opinion that we should lower all of their salaries. They get paid way too much money to do a job that almost anybody could do with far less problems. The worst part to me about this whole situation is that it is both parties causing problems. Most of the time it is either the Republicans or the Democrats that are causing problems, not both.

I've heard that things are heating up even more in the Middle East. Things are not going well for anybody in Libya. The rebel forces are not making any gains and the pro-government forces are getting more pressure from NATO. I don't think that the pro-government will be able to keep going for much longer before NATO decides to really get involved and send in a major force to unseat Gadhafi. I also heard that the protests in Syria are getting even bigger. With any luck these protest will not lead to the same thing that is happening in Libya.