Government

President Obama is a smart man. Most likely smarter then I will ever be and I respect him for his intelligence and what looks like to be his desire of helping the American people. But he is a socialist. Nothing is wrong with that. In fact in a perfect world it would be the ideal economy. Getting rid of most of the economic problems we have and instead being supported by the government. But this goes against everything America has been about for the last 200 years. Being a free enterprise economy has giving us the desire through greed to do something good with what we have. Pushing people to make bigger better things. And through this has put America as one of the most powerful nations in the world. And who knows maybe it is about time that we had a change. Maybe as a nation we can come together and change our ways becoming one social economy. I personally don't see that happening when I look at my generation though.

One more step that Obama is making towards socialism that I recently heard about is that he is having the government buy the majority of stocks of business such as GMC. Businesses that are failing and going bank rupt. So not only his he taking our tax money and buying car delerships. But he is buying FAILING car dealerships. Ones that are sinking down the tubes and would be considered a financial suicide for any investor. I don't know exactly what Obama hopes to do with this. But for me personally I don't think it makes much sense. But then again he is a very smart man.

Swine Flu

First of all I would like to start off with exactly what is "Swine Flu"? Apperantly it is very similar to Influenza. The symptons being chills, fever, sore throat, muscle pains, severe headaches, coughing, weakness, general discomfort, (and a slow painful death). My sources didn't say the last part but I'm pretty sure it's implied in the news. I mean almost every case I have heard about this everybody is dying. And I'm sure it was probably slow and painful. So why not stretch it a bit?

Now the question is should we be worried? As a people should we start flippin out. Buying gas masks, vaccienes, and pretty much eradicatin Mexico from the face of the earth. Now do what you must to feel all safe inside. And for sure if you feel sick you should get checked out by a doctor before going to work or school to prevent spreading the flu. But seriously around half of the people you know have already been exposed to the swine flu somehow. And their body has either completely faught it off and become resistent or they got a little sick and became resistent. So my personal advice is to be smart; keepin your hands clean and gettin yourself checked out if you don't feel good. I mean it's pretty much just common sense.

The Great Gatsby

I just finished the Great Gatsby as a reading assignment for English. It was a pretty good book written by Fitzgerals about love and termoil during the 1920s. The narrator named Nick who is my favorite character. Is introduced into the life of an incrediably rich man named Jay Gatsby. They become friends but Nick starts hearing conflicting stories about Gatsby's shrouded past.

Basically Gatsby has been in love with Nick's cousin (Daisy) and has spent the last few years after the war to reunite their teenage love. But the main problem is that Daisy has moved on and married a wealthy man by the name of Tom. So while Gatsby is trying to take back Daisy, Tom has been having an affair with Mrs. Wilson the whole while. And he is not even trying that hard to hide it. But anyway I don't want to ruin the ending for you but I do recomend the book if you are ever looking for a quick read.

LiftaThon

This week has been the Liftathon fundraiser for the Cypress Bay football team. And just like every time we have had a fundraiser in the past. I slacked off and didn't go out the very first day and ask for donations. But I did somehow pull off the 125 dollars required and then some. Which is good because coach tends to be creative with his punishments.

How the fundraiser works is you either get people to pledge a certain amount per pound you lift or they can donate a flat rate. Most people tend to do the flat rate because most people like to know how much they will be giving before hand. But how the lifts work is one day you do bench then you do power cleans and you finish off with squats. At least that is the order I got. So I have already done my bench and power clean. My bench really pissed me off at only 215 pounds mostly due to my leg crampin up after my second lift. But my power clean was pretty decent at 230 pounds. So I guess you win some and lose some. But anyway I will always enjoy lifting weights and hopefully I can get my bench up by the time the season rolls along.

school

Last semester I didn't do so good as far as school is concerned. Everything was great to the point that I started lettin my grades slip. But that doesn't really matter any more because I decided I wasn't going to let that happen again.

So this semester I have done a lot better. Getting an A in ever class except for Spanish. Because it's fricken rediculous and impossible for a gringo to get an A in. But that's ok I've accepted my failure in another language and don't really plan on persueing it very much after Highschool. I would much rather look into someting else. Like chinese or something interesting like that. I think using all the same letters as english has made me extremely bored of it really fast. So maybe a new set of letters and sounds would do me good.

camping

This weekend I took a trip to Arcadia in around central FL. I went with a youth group that was going cannoing in Peace River. I left on Friday around 7 in the morning and then didn't get back untill Sunday around 2. My favorite part of the trip was when we found a group of people that were swinging from a tree into the river. So we stopped for a while and tried it out. It was sick! The rope went all the way up around 20 feet up the bank and then when you swung and reached the highest point of the arc you are around 15-20 feet above the water. At which point you could eather drop or do a flip of some sort. It being my first time I did not try a flip but none the less had an amazing time. Untill my girlfriend went. And for some reason when she got to the top of the arc her swimsuit came up flashing the entire beach of around 60 rednecks. But whatever I guess I'm fine with an open relationship.

The Economy

It seams to me like the numbers get bigger every day of the unemployed in America. Now this leads me to ask...what did we do wrong? And there are probably a million different answers to that question but I would like to touch a little bit on my own. For one and I believe the most major reason is that we as a people got lazy. And this isn't exactly the first time this has happened in history in fact it has happened at least once in the last century. So why can't we just learn from our mistakes? The truth is most people don't know about the mistakes we've made in the past. That is why it so important to learn from the past. It prepares us just that much better for the future. Now this recesion thing might have been inevidable I don't really know. But I know there are things we could have done to make it less affective against us. We should have worked harder and imported less. That is the bottom line. It goes back to our laziness as a people. So I think the best way to get out of the problem we created is not to give people who aren't working more money to get by. But instead reward the hard workers in America and give those who don't have work more opportunitys to do manual labor so they too can be rewarded. Now I could be wrong but that is my personal oppinion.