editorial post #2 [not a very creative title]

so, this week's editorial, from the Washington Post Online, is about how the declining state of the american economy is effecting other parts of the world, namely china.
Apparantly the U.S is the largest consumer of chinese goods. China was in the process of expanding their industrial work force to meet consumer demand, therefore the rural population was moving into the cities to find work in factories. now with consumers in america cutting back on buying foreign products, the chinese economy is falling apart. The workers have been forced to return to their thrird-world rural housing, which, for some, does not even exist anymore, and thousands of jobless and homeless roam the cities of china. Chinese exports have dropped 40-70 percent, depending on the product, and those exports are the base of China's expansion and de-isolationism at this moment in time.
for me, and hopefully for others, this article opened my eyes to how inter-connected the us economy is to the economies of other countries. right now the american economic depression is not that bad for the majority of the country. the same can't be said for the countries which are directly invested in the US, who cant afford any turn down in either our or their economies.

editorial post #1

wow..i had already forgotten how to use this silly website. i had also forgotten my password... oops.

alright so the editorial i found is nt about anything too serious because if you know me, i dont like to think about how the econmy is failing, how we have a new president who stepped in at the absolute worst possible time and is a bit of a socialist and wants to turn america into the soviet union, but whatever.
the editorial i found was on the pardon and how president Bush did not pardon anyone. the article cited president Clinton's very controversial last-minute pardons, of his deliquent brother and what-not, and set up a few good reasons for why he may have chosen to do this: 1. Bush may have been trying not to cause a stir at the end of a very rocky presidency, and just leave quietly, 2. he did not want to pull a clinton, and have just one more unpleasant addition to his resume. either way the article gave him shit for being too stingy with his mercy, and talked about how the new president should try to pardon a few more people during his time in office.
whatever.
pardons should be for people to clear records for which they have been proven innocent of, not to get crack dealers out of jail for finally getting caught. but that is a whole other tirade. the end