Nick Sandoval Brooke Darlan Rusty Rau Newspaper quiz 1 Questions 1-7 1.

) The criticism that the United States has faced is that it has not done enough to support Israel and some say that we have done too much for the Arab uprisings. It also says how we are disrupting and we cannot keep up with the current events that are happening. Who is Robert Danin, and what is the train? Answer. Robert Danin is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The train is all the events Arab Spring. 2.) He is a republican of Ohio and the alternatives that he raised were that tax increases are not a viable option for the joint committees but by reexamining other benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare will help his cause. What objections did the New York Times predict the Republicans would raise? Answer. That it would strongly affect how many rich people continue investments and that the economists would closely examine Mr. Buffets assertion that the rich pay less tax rate over all. 3.) The answer is that they pay nothing; Security payroll tax does not apply to income above $106,800 because majority of people do not reach the cut off. . Under is change people with a taxable income of over $1 million will start paying more percentage closer to 36%. 1.) Chris Van Hollen thinks Obama should make clear that reductions from entitlement programs are tied to his proposals to raise revenues by cutting special-interest tax breaks and asking the folks at the top to pay more. Why does the New York Times think the Obama proposal has little chance of becoming law? Answer. The NYT thinks Obama proposal has little chance to becoming a law because they think it will be very hard to persuade the republican law makers to pass his law. How will this effect the arguments Obama will make in the upcoming presidential election in 2012? Answer. NTY says that because he is focusing on the wealthy Americans it will created a greater contrast between the Republicans and the Democrats which means that there will be black and white between the votes; people will stick to their sides. 4.) Timothy Geithner is United States treasury secretary and the idea that he rejected was a on global tax on financial transactions. The European finance ministers wondered if they would be better off on their own than with others help. Geithner proposed that the time is of the essence and the Europeans need to make a decision soon because their political leaders are not doing their job correctly. The two European ministers that echoed his proposal are George Osborne and Anders Borg. They echoed his plea because they both

see a flaw in the banking systems and that the Europeans need better political leadership. The other countries proposed that the financial transaction tax would help end the crisis once and for all. 5.) Rahm Emmanuel is the mayor of Chicago and he offered the teachers of elementary schools bonus pay to go against their unions agreement in order to keep the children in school for a little longer every day. The union leaders angrily rejected the actions of the mayor and threatened to bring him and his school systems to the labor relations board for a trail. No I dont think it was neither wise nor fair. The teachers agreed to the unions contracts and by going against that they are in the wrong as well as the mayor going against the unions back. The teachers only agreed because they wanted the bonus pay and Emmanuel knew he could hook them in that way. I believe that there was a much more professional way to have his plan implemented and he should have gone down that route. I believe that it is true to some existent. They most likely were looking into how to make the days longer and how to ensure that the schools were implementing proper time usage however I am not sure that was their first priority. What I mean by this is they said they would implement it in the next school year but who is to say that they really are, maybe now that the situation is occurring they uses this as an excuse to show that they were not in the wrong and the mayor is.

Questions 8-14 8.) Jimmy Leeward was the pilot that crashed at the airshow. He was the pilot of the p-51 mustang that crashed. Marcy Klatt is an air show spectator who frequently attends them. She doesnt believe that all the risk can be taken away from the air shows so they should not cancel them because of the risks. David Costa is a pilot himself and owns an airplane of one of the competing teams. He says that theres not much they can do about safety. They are there not entertain, not to kill people he says. The FAA has some oversight on the races like making sure emergency personnel are close by if an accident were to happen. The national transportation board will be evaluating the FAAs regulation on airshows because they seem to have more leniencies towards them then commercial flight that have stricter rules. 9.) The deal is that the UAW gave a 5,000 signing bonus to its employees to open up a factory again for General Motors. This is important because its a landmark deal since GM closed because of the recession. Bob King is the union leader for GM and he says he wants the company to share the profits with its workers since they suffered with the company while it was bankrupt. The next steps are for the company to show that its using its bailout money for a positive matter like making more American jobs. Harley Shaiken is a labor professor at UC Berkley. He says that this deal brings significance to the US workforce and it creates more jobs for Americans. Jim Graham is the president of the UAW in Ohio and he says that he is behind the deal even though its not going to be liked by everyone. 11.) She is the former governor of the state of Michigan. She learned that Laissez-Faire doesnt work to promote an economy. Rick Snyder is the current governor of Michigan and a member for the Republican Party. Approved the cutting of taxes just like she did when she was governor. 12.) They reported that many adopted children from China had been forcibly kidnapped and sold in a black market for adopting children. The State department report cited that around 64,000 children had been adopted from china in the last decade. They believed that china had the most trustworthy adoption programs because of their strict 1 baby rule. Ms. Chen is a Chinese woman who lives in the United States

illegally and has spoken about her daughter being kidnapped in china in 1999.

13.) Mr. Credi is an Arabic professor at NYU and he proposes that the Palestinian authorities got to the Security Council instead of the general assembly. He thinks that the U.S will hesitate to veto them because all other nations wont. He believes that Israel will have to come up with some sort of negotiation for all the territory they have had since 1967. This affects the U.S because it puts a very complicated decision on the U.S and its diplomacy towards the Middle East. 14.) Rick Perry is one of the republican nominees for the next presidential election. Bernanke is a chairman in the Federal Reserve and he says he would be treated pretty ugly in Texas. The NY times has said that Perry has spent more time outside of Texas then he says he has. Only 5 years and it had to do with the military. He ran against people not moving out of the way in farms before pesticides were dropped. Paul burka is a member of the Texas Monthly and he says that nobody preaches negative things about the govt. better than Perry himself. He has a very negative approach to the federal government because of his experience with it. The NY times doesnt agree with the way Texas taxation work and that they dont match up with the federal governments healthcare policies which Perry disagrees majorly with. Questions 15-21 15.) John Maynard Keynes is mentioned everywhere from blogs to the television. People often view him as both a villain and hero and is considered by some as the Winston Churchill of economics. He has been deceased for 65 years yet he is still brought up today for his optimistic outlook on economics. Keynes always looked forward for better days and stayed positive even at the worst of times. He is called the sunny economist because his optimism was very striking in the midst of one of the darkest chapters of modern economic history. During the great depression things were really bad but Keynes believed it would pass and everyone should stay positive. He reassured the British public that they were suffering from a bad attack of economic pessimism and over time the problems would be solved. He worked out a new theory by 1963 called The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. He wanted to create economics as the whole. 16.) Joe McGinniss wrote the book The Selling of the President in 1969 and he believes politics in the 21st century is just another branch of the entertainment industry. The rise of Sarah Palin fulfilled experiments in image-making he had witnessed more than 40 years ago. Palin is the apotheosis of this and he has come to the conclusion that a person cannot be a national politician without having qualities of the entertainer and they cannot connect with the public. Television countered newspapers with the seduction of the image and the soundtrack, with emotional immediacy, with color and shine. Roger Ailes is a producer who was working on the Mike Douglass program when Nixon met him in 1967 and was hired after he informed the candidate, Television is not a gimmick. 17.) 46.2 million people live in poverty in America. 18.) New legislation called the parent trigger is being proposed in more than 20 states, including New York, and is about to make engaged parents duties a lot more complicated. Parents have become a force for improving schools. For example, in California if 51% of parents sign a petition they can demand, and the district must provide, a new set of administrators to run the school. This creates an opportunity for parents to be heard. However researchers have found that schools with the highest levels of parent satisfaction were often ones with the lowest level of academic achievement. Therefore, parents need to become sophisticated about schooling and learn what works best for the school.

19.) Thomas Friedman thinks the pro-Israel lobby can force the administration to defend Israel at the United Nations, even when it knows Israel is pursuing policies not in its own interest or Americas. They wanted to go to the U.N. and get recognized as a state and fight it that way. Then Israel should have either put its own peace plan or tried to shape the U.N. diplomacy with its own resolution but they did neither. 20.) A Shinbone newspaperman says, When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. The title of Rick Perrys book is Fed Up! Maureen Dowd cited that Rick Perry stated, Im actually for gun control-use both hands. Dowd had a crush on William Buckley for his sesquipedalian facility. William Buckley is the right wing of the W.O.P. 21.) Karen Cox is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and the author of Dreaming of Dixie: How the South was created in American Popular Culture. Her complaint about reality television is they are representing a typecast South. The stereotypical depictions are insulting to those who live in the region and they deny the existence of a progressive south, or even progressive Southerners. The dramatic demographic changes that have changed in the America South are the Souths population is more ethically and racially diverse than its ever been. Hispanics are the fasting-growing ethnic group in the country and, according to census statistics; most of that growth has been concentrated in the south. The region is increasingly urban and cosmopolitan and has become more economically and politically powerful.