Bride to Nowhere

The bridge to nowhere is a national puchline about the troubles of the alaskan town of Ketchikan. In ketchikan they were trying to build a bride to the airport that is out on a island and it was promised to be built 30 years ago but never happend. The towm of Ketchikan is so famous because It has 250,000 people pass through the airport every ear and nearly 1 million visitors who go there each summer.

The writers problem is that just because its out in the middle of nowhere the government dosent have to pay attenction to it. The government promised them the bridge 30 years ago but have never even attemted to start building the bridge. So i think the writer is so POed because they havent done anything to help out the town in alaska and then when theres a problem in the main lands of the U.S. there all over it. The town is 90 minutes north of seattle by plane.

Yes the writer convinces me in is opinion because i dont think you should just ignore some one for 30 years. This would be like 4 adults and one kid in a store then the kid is the second person in line and they just igonre his prenents and help the adults.

Save More and Consume less

In this artical Zakaria talks about the finatial crises that the United States is going though and the U.S. is in debt for about 10.2 trillion dollars Zakaria also talks about what we should do to try and stop it and how we can get out of this with out . He mentions that we should save more and consume less and i agree with him that we should save as much as we can and just use what we need to get throguh the times of the mini depression. Then when we finally get out of the crises we can go and live once agian.

Another way the people of the U.S. can stop this is buy gitting rid of some credit cards on average every house hold has 13 cards that are in debt and that they cant repay so if the teens of this world decide to not get as many credit card or only get 1 or 2 and keep them paid off mabey the world wont have as much truoble keeping out of debt. They can also save money insted of spending it on stuff they dont need like brand new cars when they allready have 3 that run perfectly fine. Insted they can put that money away and save it for time that may be hard like now when the market is crashing.

The Worst Ads on TV

This Artical is about how prescription drugs are advertised on tv. And in the more recent times they are advertiseing even more. But in the older years they dint advertise as much but one of the perscription drugs they did advertise was thalidomide witch was to stop morning sickness or insomina. But little did the parents know that the pill would have a major side effect that made they child have a major birth defect. This birth defect made them be born with out limbs or limbs in strang spots.

But luckly the drug Thalidomide was not run on tv other wise alot more people would have been affected by the drug and many more babys would have been affected by the drug. If they advertise drugs on tv they should have it so that you must go to a docter to get the drugs and not just over the counter drugs. They should go to a docter to be tested to see if this drug wil affect them in any harmful way.

I think that they should take the drug advertisements off tv and if people realy want to know what kind of drugs there are they can go on the internet and look or call a local farmacey or talk to there docter about durgs that can help them insted of posting them all over the TV

Samuelson

Ths artical talks about the bailout plan that was passed through congress that failed the first time and then they tryed agian and got it passed. Samuelson thinks that the bailout plan is going to cause banks do close and make the us crash and go into a nother depersion like the one in 1929. With unimployment increceing rapidly the us is startig to fall apart

They say that the 700 billion dollar bailout will save banks and other financial institutions With unemployment rising cautious consumers have curbed spending. Economies abroad are slowing hurting U.S. exports. Banks and other financial institutions will suffer more losses buy the unemployment and people will save there money insted of puting it in a bank.

The one difference from the 1920s and now is they government is way more involved with the carsh then in the 1920s. in 1920 there was 3% of the government involed and today there is 20% and they are acting alot quicker