The Federal Budget Issue # 2

Spending what we can't afford. In 2007 Congress passed pay as you go budgeting. It requires that any tax increases in entitlement spending must be offset with spending reductions in other places in the budget. People who are for this say that it is necessary to show that congress understands that deficits matter and should be contained. On the other hand opponents to it say that it is the wrong approach, they say that instead of limiting spending, paygo will merely result in raising taxes in new programs which will hurt the U.S economy.

I am for this solution that was put in place by congress. If they want to pass a new bill or law that will effect the budget they will now have to realize that the bill or law will effect another part of the economy any will have a new tax added on. I think it will eliminate spending that is unnecessary and will help out our budget over time.

NASA launches Solar Dynamics Observatory

NASA has launched the Atlas V rocket that will capture the sun in greater detail than ever before. The agency says it will provide a better understanding of the sun and how it plays a role in major weather events such as solar flares, which can wreak havok on earth. The rocket will return images with 10 times better resolution than HD television. This rocket may help predict space weather, right now there is no way to do such a thing. The rocket was originally supposed to launch in August of 2008 but more testing was needed to launch it.

It think that launching a rocket towards the sun is a great idea. It will help astronauts better predict space weather being that right now there is no real way to predict what space weather is going to happen. For me it would be really cool to see these images of the sun with such great resolution. I have never seen up close images that provide a lot of detail. It would be really nice to see solar flares in action. Overall I think NASA had a good idea here.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/space/02/11/solar.dynamics.observatory/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29