Revolt for a reason

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As the turmoil in Egypt continues orogress has been made. After weeks of protest in the streets, religious unity and a coming to together as a nation the egyption people finally were granted their wish as Presedent Mubarak stepped fown from the presidencey on Febuary 11th. For weeks on end thousands of protesters lined the streets of Egypt asking for change. As its people were angered over the corruption of the political system, poliece brutality agaisnt the citizens of egypt. As the participation between the politcal system in place and the people whom elected its officials came to a recent conclution. The countries constitution has been suspended. A patchwork cabinet will rule the ramaining nation for the coming months untill the election, so that a new government can be installed. A main player in the overseeing of the countries political state is prime minister Ahmed Shafik along with the members of Mubarak's cabinet. The United states has interjected little during the uproar of the country stating that the "will of the people" needs to be noticed in this situation. As the turmoil is slowly declining, the successful rebellion of the people of Egypt has brought to them what they set out to do; asking for change which in turn they will be given.

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State of Our Union

As I am a big fan of president Obama. I was skeptical of bits and pieces of this address much like many others from the past. As much as he talks about domestic spending and cuts for many agencies and sectors of our United States government. How do we plan to get by with cutting billions of collective monies from Departments such as defense? What have we been spending all of this money on? Have we been just wasting it away for the centuries before us, and why do we keep spending money that we can supposedly do without spending, as we dig a deeper hole for ourselves? It seems like Obama has been the first president recently who has even touched on the matter. How we are able to cut millions from many departments in which we really don’t need to be spending. If it is really as easy as he makes it seem then what else are we spending unnecessary monies on? By cutting all of this funding I at least hope that it gets pumped into departments of our nation that really need it. Schools and maybe projects as he mentioned that will make not just the U.S. but the world a safer cleaner planet for generations to come that sounds to me to be beneficial. Biomedical research, information technology and clean energy spending seems to me areas which have finally been addressed that in the future will help us spend notoriously less as well as being cleaner and safer in our everyday lives. As Americans we are a smart country it just baffles me that we are just not realizing that we are spending too much of things we don’t really need.