When it comes to Obama’s decision, he plans to change the fate of the unemployed by offering $7 billion to permanently change their unemployment-insurance laws to cover part-time workers and prevent laid-off workers from struggling more than they already are. He has a stimulus package deal that will include tax breaks for businesses and individuals that will help generate jobs and spending to help America’s ailing economy. FDR on the other hand, planned on getting out of America’s Great Depression through direct recruiting from the government.
In his Inaugural address Roosevelt states, “Values have shrunken to fantastic levels;taxes have risen;our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income.” This simply goes into how much money becomes worthless once a country is slowly falling through the cracks. For example, today the value of dollar isn't worth as much as it used to because of the excessive use of dollar seigniorage. Being in great debt from the Iraq war and other unnecessary involvements, is also a factor that only limits us to get back to the way things were before this recession period even began.
It is apparent to me that the way Roosevelt went about getting America out of such a great depression is similar to the way Obama will be taking charge to get America back on track. FDR's words are echoed in Obama's inaugural speech. Roosevelt brought up the fact that even though we face hard days ahead of us, it is our national unity that will get us through. Obama continues on this idea by saying, “In this window of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come.” So I say, if we were able to fight through a much rougher time during the time of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency, then there's no doubt that with a President so passionate as Obama, we will continue to move forward and rebuild America once again.
Sources:
"Asia Times Online :: Japan News and Japanese Business and Economy." Asia Times Online :: Asian news hub providing the latest news and analysis from Asia. 24 Jan. 2009
"Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989." Bartleby.com: Great Books Online -- Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus and hundreds more. 24 Jan. 2009
"Obama Pushes States to Cover More Unemployed - WSJ.com." Business News, Finance News, World, Political & Sports News from The Wall Street Journal - WSJ.com. 24 Jan. 2009
"Obama's inaugural speech - CNN.com." CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News. 24 Jan. 2009
2 comments:
content: i really like connection that is made, since it is something that is much less noticeable than other types of news.
Writing:what i like most about the writing is the overall use of evidence, it's enough to support it yet it still seems easy to understand and not all that hard to read.
questions:what was FDR's plan to help the unemployed?
overall i think its great, again, i like how it's easy to read and its not confusing. i think that you might want to switch some words around on the first sentence, it just sounds kind of weird, and when you say that obama is just handing out money, it sounds like there is no plan behind it, but later on in the paper you say his plan so maybe just re-phrase that.
I found really interesting how Obama plans to change the fate of the unemployed by offering them $7 billion.
I think your writing is laid out really good and you make really good connections. The way you start your paragraph is done really well and I like how when you put a quote you would explain what they were trying to say and then you would make connections between Obama and FDR. The way you explain your thoughts is also really good because when you stated your opinion you wrote something like "it is apparent to me..." rather than just "In my opinion..." or "I think..." i think you have really good evidence and your writing is easy to follow along by how it is laid out and the way you explain things.
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