What are your priorities?

             “What are our priorities?” It is a very well written article argued why “national debt; unrest throughout the Middle East; and the devastation of Japan” should be the national priorities. I indeed find myself could not agree with him more except “the devastation of Japan”.
            In the discussion of the national debt issue, Mr. Hubbed collected many data that strongly support his reason why national debt should be the top priority. The debts are measured in trillions dollars and the numbers are shocking of course. He also included the data of private debt which seems to me is very interesting, because it is about 4 times of total federal government debt. The whole nation agrees on the biggest agenda of the nation is the nation’s debts issue. However, it is hard to agree on how to fix the problem. All the solutions that Mr. Hubbed suggested are convincing, some of those I do agree, such as stop incurring debt and re-structure salary. Some are just simply too ideal, by which I mean we can only hope.
            When it comes to Middle East issues, he made it very clear that supporting the renewal of the Patriot Ac does not mean supporting “continuation of the war”. He listed four reasons and one of those was, I quote, “First, we can’t afford continuing this fight in the manner we are fighting it (remember, that the National Debt would be my first priority).” I think it would be more persuasive if he had included some statistic evidence. I understand that Mr Hubbed thinks U.S. should stay away of involving and transfer the attention from elsewhere to itself and we need a leader who can order to “bring the troops back!”  Is it really that simply?
            Japan, what have happened is a tragic. All countries shall support Japan in all means regardless what they have done in the past. Japan should be one of the priorities because of China according to Mr. Hubbed’s argument. So, really, China is United States’ priority. I say United States is the forever standing giant if it wins this “world new domination” competition in such chaos as Mr. Hubbed argued in this article. Losing the game does not make United States a failure. Maintaining the number one status should not be this nation’s priority, maybe United States would be the forever standing giant.
            This is a very intelligent argument and it is logically reasoned. Mr. Hubbed sees problems from the surface to certain depth and analyzes them with strong evidences, intelligent opinions and strategies. I really enjoyed reading it. 

"We need calm in face of storm"

We need calm in face of storm -- an interesting but true statement. Imagine your general panicked when the enemy army attacked and you were in the front defense line on a battle field? Lucky in this case we are looking at a panicked district's chief executive officer. Education budget cut has became one of the most popular topics that local people talk and act about. Who doesn't know the government is going to close some schools and lay off many teachers. Kids have been participate in such activities as found raising and raising awareness of the importance of their schools and teachers. This school budget cut is a serious problem and we should be concerned. However the author of this article does have a very outstanding and valuable point --"The facilities task force that recommended school closures was supposed to be looking at options for the next 10 years — not weeks." The author also pointed out three good reasons to to delay an exigency for a few weeks. Timing, which gives the decision makers some more time to think through the problem, because there might be better solutions; the Legislature, which create some means that might help to keep more teacher employed; and the transparency -- let the public see the plan! 

Government and media tend to exaggerate the emergence of problems either to draw greater attention by scaring people or for higher viewer turn out. Whatever the reason is, it is working! Budget cut issue came out of nowhere in one day and people started to react to it immediately. People panicked for personal reasons. The leader, however, shall not be anywhere near being panicked. It would only create more chaos . Everything has a solution. By giving it a little time will lead to answer. For better or worse, at least we can say that the decision was made with many consideration. After all, this is not a either now or never situation.