Monday, April 11, 2011

AoW - April 11

Article: http://kellygallagher.org/resources/AoW%209%20Short%20Term%20Funding.pdf

Based on the information generated from your outline, craft a reflection expressing your understanding and thoughts on the attached article.

24 comments:

Mr. Pratt said...

"Obama signs short terms funding" is an article that was put out by CNN. The article talked about the national budget, and how both Republicans and Democrats are working together to put a budget deal together. Without a budget agreement from both sides, the US government would shutdown until an greement was reached.

After reading the article, I found the following to be interesing:
1. Democrats and republicans have different ideas of what the US budget should look like.
2. Both democrats and republicans make up the government, and their working collectively on a compromise will lead to a budget agreement.
3. The idea behind a budget is to plan and track what you are spending, while not spending more than you have coming in.
4. Republicans are looking to cut back more on spending than democrats do, for the most part.

I thought this article was a tough article to read. I learned a little about the budget, and the importance of spending money within your means (not more than you have). I also thought this was a great read world example of what it means to compromise. Republicans and Democrats do not agree on many things, but those two groups work together to help run our country. Each group is giving a little up to get a little in return. I would recommend this article to American adults.

nash said...

The title of this article is "Obama signs short-term funding". The short term funding was to shut down the fedral government. There was good news and there was bad news. This article was taken place in the white house.

Four facts that i learned from this article are
1) The new funding extension was cut by two billion dollars
2) This was the largest spending annual cut in history
3) a package of 38.5 billion is in spending cuts
4) Democrats both controlled the senate and the house

This was a pretty good article. I learned a lot about the shot term funding. They were also caling the cuts very painful. I would recommend this article to adults.

Ashlyn O said...

"Obama signs short terms funding" is an article that has an unknown author. this article was about Obama signing short term funding. he is spending more money than we have. Lapses means to ignore something.

I learned the following from this article
1: Lapses means to ignore something.
2: Bolster is sudden jolt.
3: Their spending a lot of money.
4: they cut spending by 2 billion.

I didn't like this article. I don't like talking about the budget problems. I want to stay out of it. I recommend this to business people.

hayes m said...

"Obama Signs Short Term Funding" is our article of the week. Obama signed short term funding. We luckily avoided a government shutdown.
Four facts I learned are
1.GOP stands for Grand Old Party
2.Grand Old Party is republicans.
3.If there was a government shutdown, 800,000 government workers would have been furloughed.
4.There was $38.5 billion dollars worth of spending cuts
I didn't like this article. A government shutdown would be bad. I'm glad we didn't have one.................yet. I recommend this article to government employees.

Alyssa S said...

The title of this article is "Obama signs short term funding." This article was about government spending. And how much there spending, I think it is just crazy. And about Obama signing a short term funding.

Four facts I learned are...
1.I learned furloughed means a forced day off.
2. I learned lapses means ignoring someone.
3. I learned how much money the government spends.
4. I learned about the short-term funding obama signed.

My overall thoughts are this is crazy how much there spending. And how many cuts they have to make is unbelievable. And how 800,000 people are furloughed , people are going to lose a lot of money. I recommend this to adults.

Megan R. said...

Obama Signs Short Term Funding is about how Obama signed a short term funding extension. The new funding extension, it cuts spending by 2 million and will last through April 15th. This is taking place in Washington.

Four facts I learned:
1. Obama signed a short term funding extension
2. negotiators agreed on a framework for a package of 38.5 billion in spending cuts
3. A GOP pushed to strip 317 million in federal funding, from planned parenthood
4. Republican in last years selection had initially pushed for 61 billion in cuts

My thoughts on this article:
were a little boring for me. I don't know much about the economy and president type stuff. I recommend this article to people who don't know about this.

David L. said...

"Obama signs short term funding" this article was about barrack obama signing a short term funding. if he didn't the government would shut down, and we would loose a lot of money. but now we are going to get money.

there were a lot of interesting facts in this story but here are some that really stood out.
1.800,000 government workers had to take the day off without pay.
2. small businesses are getting loans.
3.we get money from the government.
4. obama signed the short term funding.

I thought that the article was cool. because we usually don't get to learn about this stuff. but when we do its cool. I would recommend this article to politicians.

jasmine b said...

This article I read this week was called Obama signs short-term funding. The author was not said. This article was about obama signing a fund. this article included many facts. This article was taking place in Washington.

The 4 facts i learned were 1. what conservation means 2. what recriminations means. 3. what partisan means 4. what cod stands for.

I did not like this article. I thought it was boring. This was a harder article. I would recommend this article to adults.

Emilie D. said...

The article "Obama Sighns Short Term Funding" was about how Obama sighned a short term funding extension. They are going to cut our nations spending by 38.5 billion dollars. This will be the longest spending cut in our nations history.

Four facts I learned while reading this article were:
1.They are going to cut our nations spending.
2.People are trying to cut things here and there.
3.If these negotiations had failed about 800,000 workers would have been forloughned.
4.The senate majority leader said that this would be hard but the right thing to do for our country.

I didn't really like this article. I thought it wasn't very interesting. But I do think the president did the right thing. I would recommend this article to people who work for the government.

Andrew P said...

"Obama signs short term funding" was the article we read this week. It was about how Obama signing a short term fund. It was also about how the goverment is doing. And the budget battle. This article is taking place in Washington.

The four I learned are.
1. 38.5 billion in spending cuts.
2.Obama signing a funding.
3.We get money from other people.
4. That the USA is not doing good.

I liked this article. I think it is good that we know what is going on in the USA. Also I think It is good because I learnd alot of new stuff. I would recomend this article to adults.

mason said...

"obama signs short term funding" was about how obama is signing a funding term. it also said that the government is having a budget battle between money. this article was taken place nationwide.

Four facts I learned were:
1: GOP stands for grand old party
2:obama is making payment cuts
3: 800,000 government workers will be let go if they don't find a solution to this problem
4: Obama is ignoring federal deficits with his party.

I did't really like this article because it was about government stuff and I am not a big fan of that stuff. I also thought that saving $1.6 million is alot of money. I would recommend this article to anyone.

Tyler said...

The title of this article is "Obama signs short-term funding". Obama signed short term funding. We luckily avoided a government shutdown. They talked about what the fund was and what it went to us.

Four facts I learned:
1. I learned about the short-term funding obama signed.
2. negotiators agreed on a framework for a package of 38.5 billion in spending cuts
3. 800,000 government workers had to go on furlough.
4. Republican in last years selection had initially pushed for 61 billion in cuts

I didn't like the article it. It was confusing. It wasn't interesting. I would recommend this article to everyone in the United States.

isaac said...

"Obama signs short-term funding" was about president Obama signing a short-term funding extension. This article was also about how democrats had narrowly averted a particial shutdon of the federal goverment by a greeing on the measure and a buget deal.

Four facts that i learned from the article are....
1. I learned that a furloughed is a forced day off.
2. I also learned that Obama signed a short-term funding extension.
3. The new funding cuts spending by 2 billion dollars.
4. Did you knw that G.O.P. stands for the Grand, Old, Party.

I thought that this article was good but you had to read it twice to be able to understand some of the words that were said. I also liked this article because it had a title for each paragraph. I would recomend this article to adults who like knowing what is going on in the government.

Emily B said...

The article "Obama signs short-term funding" was about the governments budget debate about spending cuts. If they had not come to an agreement there would have been a government shutdown, leading to forlouged workers. They came to an agreement, though, 38.5 billion in cuts.

Four facts I learned in the article include: The republicans pushed for 61 billion in spending cuts. The extention was passed in the senate by voice vote. Workers where alreading being warned of the forlough already on Thursday. This is the largest spending cut in history.

I thought this article was confusing and mixed-up. It did have good information in some parts, thought. I think the spending cuts were needed to pay off the deficit. I would recommend this article to people who wish to know more about the cuts.

JIMMYH said...

Obama sighs short-term funding

The article talks about the budget battle. The good/the bad/the ugly of the budget. And what the government is doing about the budget.

I’ve learned democrats and republicans are people with different beliefs. There’s a budget battle. What the budget affect in a good way and bad.

My thoughts are I have none. I have no care for the budget debate because it’s not my problem unless the government shutdowns. And I shouldn’t even be learning about this at 11 and having my teacher do my parents job.

Meghan W. said...

"Obama signs short-term funding". That was an article put together by CNN. This article talks about how President Obama signs a short-term funding law. This article included a lot of facts that are useful. Some spending cuts are involved in this law. This article takes place in the United States.

Four facts I learned from this article are...
1- If negotiatiommns failed 800,000 workers would be furloughed.
2- Furloughed means to have a forced day off of work.
3- democrats call the $61 billion in cuts initially pushed by the Republicans extreme.
4- This can relate to Women's Health.

I thought this article was really confusing. The part that I did understand was that Obama signed some law that is uncluding spending cuts. I am not sure if I agree or not with what Obama is doing. I would recommend this article to adults, the government, and President Obama.

hayley said...

"Obama signs short- term funding." Obama decides we need a set amount of money tat the government can spend. Also how the government fights over the amount we should get.

Three facts I learned from this AOW were...........
-If the government doesn't agree on a price than there will be a government shut down.
- The agreed amount is 38.5 billion then that amount would only last to about September 30.
- A 2 billion dollar cut from the government extension will last till April 15.

I'm not so sure the government can handle this. Just because they can agree on some stuff but I think agreeing on something that is going to effect everyone in America that is out of the question. Or even if they did I'm guessing at least another two weeks.

Lauren K said...

"Obama Signs Short-term Funding" is an article about the ficacial decitions the government is making. The two parties have fought over ideas to help the echonomical structure of our country. Because of this the government almost shut down.

Four facts that I learned from the article are:
1. Furlough is a forced day off by the government.
2. There has only been one other government shut down.
3. The new funding extention cuts $2 billion.
4. A GOP is trying to cut $317 million in federal functions.

At first the article was confusing, but once we talked about it in class I got a better understandin. Right now the echonomyis really bad, and that is what the government is trying to fix. What I don't understand is how it got that way in the first place. I would recommend this article to people interested in government issues.

McKenna H. said...

"Obama signs short-term funding" This article was about Obama signing a short-term funding.This funding will cut spending. Obama said this will help our future.
4 facts.
1.The funding extension cuts spending by 2 billion.
2.The budget deal still needs to pass through both houses
3.Democrates call the $61 billion cut sintianlly pushed by the republicans extreme.
4. Thsi could lead to a goverment shutdown.
I did not like this article. It was boring and not interesting at all. I'm really not interested in tis stuff. I would reccomed this article to American adults.

Carrie K said...

"Obama signs short term funding" by CNN was about new plans for our budget. Obama signed a short term find to last us until tomorrow. They plan to cut 38.5 billion dollars. The article takes place nationwide.

I learned the spending cut will be the largest in US history. Furloughed means a forced day off without pay. GOP stands for the grand old party or republican party. Republicans wanted 64 billion dollars in cuts.

I disliked the article. It was boring and kids aren't interested in this sort of matter. Adults take care of the legal stuff, not kids. I would recommend this article to government workers.

Amber C said...

"Obama signs short term funding" was about Obama signing a short term funding bill.in the House there is lots of fighting.he will be cutting $38.5 billion.
4 facts I learned are:
1.Looooooong fight in house
2.Will cut $38.5
3.Might cut womans rights?
4.if no deal workers will be hurt
I thought the article was ok but REALLY boring.It could have been better.It was still ok.i recommend this article to workers.

Taylor J. said...

The title of this article was "Obama signs short-term funding. The author was kept annoymous. The article that we read was about Obama signing a fund. If he didn't the goverment would shut down. But we luckily avoided the goverment to shut down.

Four facts I learned from this article was:
1. Obama signed the short-term funding
2. Small buisness are getting loans
3. We get money from the goverment
4. If the goverment had a shut down 800,000 goverment workers would have been furloughed.

I didn't like this article. I knew what they were talking about but I am not interested in the topic. I thought at first it was confusing but during the disscussion I started to understand it more.

michael said...

After reading this article. Obama signs short tterm funding: This article was mainly about how Obamasigned funding papers and he's offering money to the us people but the government really doesnt have that much money to loan to people in the united states.
This article is taking place nationwide.
Four facts i've learned fro this article are..
1. The budget deal Might be held on monday.
2.The 61 million cuts people made were called extreme by some people.
3.800,000 government workers had to take the day off without getting payed.
4.This whole budget deal was callled difficult by some government workers.
My over all thoughts on this article are...
That this article was a little bit tricky to understand even after we went throught it but this article tought me more about funding and how the government resolves problems.
I would recomend this article to any one.

Brianna M said...

"Obama signs short-term funding"

The article was about obamasigns short term funding thing. And a lot of diffrent sectains. lots of big words. This took place in washton.

1. A GOP push strip $317 million in federal funding from planned parenthood faild.
2. State legislatures more ability to cut funding for services.
3. 800,000 governmentworks would have been furloughed. Lawmakers react to the budget deal.

I thought the article was really boring. There were a lot of things that i dident understand. I really did not like this article at all. People who are old like people who read the papers should read this.