I read an article from The Nation called, 100 Down, 900 to Go. This article was about how Obama is doing pretty well even with all of obstacles his predecessor, "arguably the worst President we ever had, left him. However he still has a long way to go and he knows this because he doesn't want people to look at what he's done in the first 100 days he wants them to see what he does after the 1000 days are up.
Obama has "hit the ground running," he's been going and going on trying to get us out of this crisis. He has, "pledged to close Guantanamo and the CIA black sites. He quickly passed a strong recovery bill -- even if it was smaller than it should have been; that bill and his proposed budget begin to lay out a new blueprint for economic recovery and reconstruction, and a break with ill-conceived dogma about deficit reduction that has defined and limited economic policy for thirty years. He repealed the global gag order, took steps to restore science to its proper place with regard to stem cell research and addressing climate change, and has embarked on a substantive transformation to a clean energy economy"He is also bettering our relationships with others around the world that aren't very good. declared his commitment to nuclear abolition and, in doing so, has opened the door to a renewed and wiser nuclear non-proliferation framework.
Even though Obama seems to be doing well and is coming up with pretty good ideas on getting us out of this mess some are still skeptical about the military escalation in Afghanistan and the bank bailout. The budget plan may not do as good as it's supposed to because of how bad unemployment is and is becoming. The unemployment rates might just cancel out any good the bailout does. Then there's the war, some feel that the resources we are using over there are going to dry us out and make it impossible to get out of this crisis. However if the bailout doesn't work Obama will have to go to plan B. The article goes onto to talk about how health care is another issue we really need to work on as well.
I feel Obama is doing a lot to get us out of this mess. He's not just sitting around letting everyone else do it all he's actually out there working for it. I don't ever remember hearing about George Bush doing much of anything except starting a war. I think in time, if we give him a chance, Obama will do a lot for our Country and make it a better place to live. He can only do so much in such a little time.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Thawing Long-Frozen Relations with Cuba
I read an article from the New York Times called, Obama Calls for Thaw in United States Relations with Cuba. This article talks about how Obama wants to have friendlier relations with Cuba. It states, "The United States seeks a new beginning with Cuba." Obama's words during the opening ceremony at the Summti of the Americas, gave hope and said that the U.S. is willing to "change direction" in it's dealings with Cuba. The Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Cuba's leader, Raúl Castro had suprisingly warm words with each other as well.
Other leaders felt that they were witnessing a historic shift when Obama extended his hand to Cuba. Cuba has been barred from the Organization of American States since 1962. So Cuba wasn't even on the agenda or invited but many leaders have been trying to make Cuba an issue. Well it worked and now the door is opened for discussions and they've abandoned the "longstanding restrictions on the ability of Cuban-Americans to travel freely to the island and send money to relatives there." Everyone knows that their trust in Cuba will take a while but we've made steps in the right direction to begin to have better relations with them. They are willing to engage in a wide range of issues from human rights, free speech, and democratic reform to drugs, migration, and economic issues.
Cuba felt ignored by the U.S. during the Bush administration so Obama was going there to reach out to them. He stated, "I didn't come here to debate the past, I came here to deal with the future." Mrs. Kirchner praised Obama for what he did to stabilize the relationship from the absurd restrictions imposed by the Bush administration. Castro told his people of the plans for Obama's administration's decision to lift restrictions on family travel and remittances in an appraising way. He is willing to go along with and give his people freedom on everything.
Some leaders have plans on raising the issue getting Cuba back into the Organization of American States at the summit meeting. There are no plans for Obama and Cuba's leader to meet privately, however there are plans for them to meet together with other leaders. They weren't friends with Bush, but they hope to be friends with Obama.
I think bringing Cuba back into the mix and having better relations with them is a very good idea. We all need to be on the same side, it will make the World work better. It could possibly mean no more wars!!! I'm all for that. I just don't think they should trust anyone one hundred percent first because anyone could lie.
Other leaders felt that they were witnessing a historic shift when Obama extended his hand to Cuba. Cuba has been barred from the Organization of American States since 1962. So Cuba wasn't even on the agenda or invited but many leaders have been trying to make Cuba an issue. Well it worked and now the door is opened for discussions and they've abandoned the "longstanding restrictions on the ability of Cuban-Americans to travel freely to the island and send money to relatives there." Everyone knows that their trust in Cuba will take a while but we've made steps in the right direction to begin to have better relations with them. They are willing to engage in a wide range of issues from human rights, free speech, and democratic reform to drugs, migration, and economic issues.
Cuba felt ignored by the U.S. during the Bush administration so Obama was going there to reach out to them. He stated, "I didn't come here to debate the past, I came here to deal with the future." Mrs. Kirchner praised Obama for what he did to stabilize the relationship from the absurd restrictions imposed by the Bush administration. Castro told his people of the plans for Obama's administration's decision to lift restrictions on family travel and remittances in an appraising way. He is willing to go along with and give his people freedom on everything.
Some leaders have plans on raising the issue getting Cuba back into the Organization of American States at the summit meeting. There are no plans for Obama and Cuba's leader to meet privately, however there are plans for them to meet together with other leaders. They weren't friends with Bush, but they hope to be friends with Obama.
I think bringing Cuba back into the mix and having better relations with them is a very good idea. We all need to be on the same side, it will make the World work better. It could possibly mean no more wars!!! I'm all for that. I just don't think they should trust anyone one hundred percent first because anyone could lie.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Cutting Programs the Poor Need!
This week I read an article from The New York Times called, States Slashing Social Programs for Vulnerable. This article talks about how we are, "battered by the recession and the deepest and most widespread budget deficits in several decades." Because of this many states are using their safety nets which is crippling the programs that would over time save us money. The $787 billion stimulus package is helping the states with some these programs by, "providing large amounts of money to pay for education and unemployment insurance, bolster food stamp programs and expand tax credits for low earners." However the money will only help forty percent of the problem and 34 states have cut some of these programs so far. In Arizona the elderly seem to be struggling the worst. More than 1,000 of them are having to make it without home-care aides with their every day life such as bathing, going to the doctor and etc. Because of this many may become even sicker and have to be put in nursing homes which cost even more. In Ohio and a few other states they are facing large cutbacks on child welfare investigations which means many more children may be hurt and put into foster care. Despite tax increases California ended dental coverage for adults on Medicaid. According to Linda J. Blessing and the facts we are cutting things for short term savings that will result in a greater long term health and financial cost.Some Republican legislators still argue that state expenses are too large, while officials say that carving another $2 billion from the budget will wreak havoc.
California is blowing my mind! According to the article, "As revenues sank late last year, forcing across-the-board cuts this spring, the child protection agency stopped investigating every report of potential abuse or neglect, and sharply reduced counseling of families deemed at risk of violence. Some toddlers with disabilities like autism and Down syndrome are not getting therapies that can bring lifelong benefits. And here, as in other states, the drive to help disabled people live at home has been set back." I'm going to be a social worker so this upsets me very much. It's like the government doesn't even care about people they're just worried about money!
The article goes on to talk about a few people who really need help that are on a waiting list. "Mary Beth Thompson, 57, is seriously overweight, with chronic pain and weakness on her left side, she has trouble moving about and cannot step into the bathtub without falling. She's even gotten a broken wrist from this. Winona Conn, 75, who uses a wheelchair because of a paralyzed leg, has been on the waiting list for home aid for a year." More and more people are needing help however the states keep cutting the programs. "State support for home and community services was reduced by $2 million in 2008, and the waiting list has grown to 50,000 from 30,000." Mary Lynn Kasunic stated, “If you don’t give people a bath a couple times a week, change the linens and make sure they get their medicines, their health will decline much faster. They end up in the emergency room in a crisis, and then in a nursing home.”
The Illinois governor's budget proposal is wanting to scale back home visits to ill equipped first time mother's, who are given advice during these visits to help reduce child abuse and better prepare the child for school. In the article it is stated that we spend $1.2 million on child welfare a year so why don't we spend a lot of money on keeping them out of this as well. Ohio's budget will be "dramatically decrease our ability to investigate reports of abuse and neglect,” and lose 75% of our investigators.
"New York State is using stimulus money and a tax increase to avoid most of the large cuts in child care, nurse visits to inexperienced mothers and other services that were originally proposed. But if revenues keep falling by the billions all bets are off."
In Arizona they had to cut $1.6 billion from their $10 billion budget. In the next fiscal year it is said that they expect a $3 billion shortfall. "Ms. Blessing, of the Department of Economic Security, said her agency had already laid off 800 workers, including 15 percent of its child protection investigators, and imposed furloughs amounting to a 10 percent pay cut." Again this is horrible because we need social workers, in fact we need more than we have and here they are getting rid of them!
However he state has secured $18 million from the stimulus package to save child care subsidies for the working poor. But they've cut some of the programs such as the, in-home counseling of troubled families, so deeply that they only have the choice to either remove the children and put them into foster care or wait and see if something bad happens. Counseling truly helps these families, sometimes it's their only option besides breaking up the families and that's something we've worked to prevent over the years. We want families to be able to stay together.
This article has truly gotten to me. I cannot believe that the states and government are actually cutting these programs. These programs are the only things many people have to live. They are extremely important and to think that they are actually getting rid of the child abuse investigations and just letting the abuse happen! I mean I can almost but not completely understand the cut backs on some of the programs but the child abuse investigations, and the cut backs on the much needed counseling!! It really sickens me! I never thought that the government would cut back this, I mean to me it's the most important thing out there. It keeps the children safe! I guess this means that everyone needs to be paying closer attention to your neighbors and kind of investigating them yourself to keep the children safe.
California is blowing my mind! According to the article, "As revenues sank late last year, forcing across-the-board cuts this spring, the child protection agency stopped investigating every report of potential abuse or neglect, and sharply reduced counseling of families deemed at risk of violence. Some toddlers with disabilities like autism and Down syndrome are not getting therapies that can bring lifelong benefits. And here, as in other states, the drive to help disabled people live at home has been set back." I'm going to be a social worker so this upsets me very much. It's like the government doesn't even care about people they're just worried about money!
The article goes on to talk about a few people who really need help that are on a waiting list. "Mary Beth Thompson, 57, is seriously overweight, with chronic pain and weakness on her left side, she has trouble moving about and cannot step into the bathtub without falling. She's even gotten a broken wrist from this. Winona Conn, 75, who uses a wheelchair because of a paralyzed leg, has been on the waiting list for home aid for a year." More and more people are needing help however the states keep cutting the programs. "State support for home and community services was reduced by $2 million in 2008, and the waiting list has grown to 50,000 from 30,000." Mary Lynn Kasunic stated, “If you don’t give people a bath a couple times a week, change the linens and make sure they get their medicines, their health will decline much faster. They end up in the emergency room in a crisis, and then in a nursing home.”
The Illinois governor's budget proposal is wanting to scale back home visits to ill equipped first time mother's, who are given advice during these visits to help reduce child abuse and better prepare the child for school. In the article it is stated that we spend $1.2 million on child welfare a year so why don't we spend a lot of money on keeping them out of this as well. Ohio's budget will be "dramatically decrease our ability to investigate reports of abuse and neglect,” and lose 75% of our investigators.
"New York State is using stimulus money and a tax increase to avoid most of the large cuts in child care, nurse visits to inexperienced mothers and other services that were originally proposed. But if revenues keep falling by the billions all bets are off."
In Arizona they had to cut $1.6 billion from their $10 billion budget. In the next fiscal year it is said that they expect a $3 billion shortfall. "Ms. Blessing, of the Department of Economic Security, said her agency had already laid off 800 workers, including 15 percent of its child protection investigators, and imposed furloughs amounting to a 10 percent pay cut." Again this is horrible because we need social workers, in fact we need more than we have and here they are getting rid of them!
However he state has secured $18 million from the stimulus package to save child care subsidies for the working poor. But they've cut some of the programs such as the, in-home counseling of troubled families, so deeply that they only have the choice to either remove the children and put them into foster care or wait and see if something bad happens. Counseling truly helps these families, sometimes it's their only option besides breaking up the families and that's something we've worked to prevent over the years. We want families to be able to stay together.
This article has truly gotten to me. I cannot believe that the states and government are actually cutting these programs. These programs are the only things many people have to live. They are extremely important and to think that they are actually getting rid of the child abuse investigations and just letting the abuse happen! I mean I can almost but not completely understand the cut backs on some of the programs but the child abuse investigations, and the cut backs on the much needed counseling!! It really sickens me! I never thought that the government would cut back this, I mean to me it's the most important thing out there. It keeps the children safe! I guess this means that everyone needs to be paying closer attention to your neighbors and kind of investigating them yourself to keep the children safe.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Unemployment Rates Going Up!!!
I read an article from The Nation called, Unemployment Spike a Wake-Up Call for Obama. This article was about unemployment continuing to rise. Unemployment is now higher than at any time since Ronald Reagan's first term in the White House. Eight and a half percent of Americans are officially unemployed, however that number doesn't include the millions of American's who want to work but have given up on trying to find it.
Since the Bush-Chaney administration in 2007 there has been a loss of 5.1 million jobs, there were 663,000 jobs alone lost last month. There are six states who now have double-digit unemployment rates. Things are bad and they're not looking up. "A growing number of analysts predict that unemployment nationally will move into the double digits and that it will remain above 10 percent well into the mid-term election year of 2010." They say we'll be lucky if we quit loosing jobs by the end of the year. However during the Bush-Chaney administration they and the financial media was still peddling the fantasy that all was well with the economy
This crisis is a big part in Obama's administration. However a scary fact is, "When the White House and Democrats in Congress worked up plans for what became the $787 billion stimulus plan, the administration's economists were counting on unemployment staying below 9 percent." So who knows how they'll be able to fix the unemployment crisis because unemployment is getting into the double-digits. It is said that we're going to need more money than what the stimulus plan offers.
These unemployment rates are scary. It's hard to believe that the Bush-Chaney administration was still trying to say that the economy was still okay and strong when it was falling apart. Then the fact that the stimulus bill that everyone is hoping will save us and give us jobs probably won't even be able to help us as much as we need it to.
Since the Bush-Chaney administration in 2007 there has been a loss of 5.1 million jobs, there were 663,000 jobs alone lost last month. There are six states who now have double-digit unemployment rates. Things are bad and they're not looking up. "A growing number of analysts predict that unemployment nationally will move into the double digits and that it will remain above 10 percent well into the mid-term election year of 2010." They say we'll be lucky if we quit loosing jobs by the end of the year. However during the Bush-Chaney administration they and the financial media was still peddling the fantasy that all was well with the economy
This crisis is a big part in Obama's administration. However a scary fact is, "When the White House and Democrats in Congress worked up plans for what became the $787 billion stimulus plan, the administration's economists were counting on unemployment staying below 9 percent." So who knows how they'll be able to fix the unemployment crisis because unemployment is getting into the double-digits. It is said that we're going to need more money than what the stimulus plan offers.
These unemployment rates are scary. It's hard to believe that the Bush-Chaney administration was still trying to say that the economy was still okay and strong when it was falling apart. Then the fact that the stimulus bill that everyone is hoping will save us and give us jobs probably won't even be able to help us as much as we need it to.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Fixing the Economy around the World!
I read an article in the New York Times called, Obama Will Face a Defiant World on Foreign Visit. This article talks about how Obama will be making his first trip over seas since becoming President for the Group of 20 summit meeting of industrial and emerging market nations plus the European Union. This article goes on to talk about that even though he is "immensely popular" around the World he, "will confront resentment over American-style capitalism and resistance to his economic prescriptions when he lands in London." Then later on in the week he will meet with the military alliance but will not bring up the matter of adding more troops into Afghanistan because NATO is against it.
He is also wanting to meet with the other leaders, an example would be Iran's leaders to get on good terms with them. However this hasn't been going very well, they are very angry and only have angry words to speak. He will also be meeting with two other leaders, Russia's and China's. These leaders are not too happy with us either because they feel that U.S. is trying to "dominate global affairs."
Another thing that Obama will more than likely not talk about during these meetings are stimulus spending to bolster the economies. However if they would do this administration officials say that it would prompt a global economy recovery. Instead world leaders will be looking to restore global growth. Our ability to give any kind of spending advice is over for now because of the way bush threw around his weight and gave orders and also because we're in a financial crisis ourselves. America is a model to the rest of the world as to what not to do with your money. Things are looking up however because many feel that Obama is turning things around for us and many Europeans see him as "an embodiment of American ideals"
He will be going to Prague to help them set up a way to let the public know about street closings. NATO will be setting up an “international resistance camp” in France to rally against the war to try to get Obama to pull the troops out of Afghanistan.
The World criticizes Obama but still wants to hear of his miracle plans to get the World out of this mess. He is showing confidence in his stimulus plan working but knows that it will take time. The ideal is to fix the American economy but to not shut out the rest of the World to the resolution because we need all economies fixed for them all to work properly. He will be trying to let the other Countries know that we're not just trying to save ourselves however they might not be willing to listen to his ideas about getting out of the crisis because America doesn't have a good reputation with money anymore. Even though they may not want to listen at first we're still trying to lead by example and get us and everyone else out of this mess.
I think that Obama is being smart and not trying to push his ideas and get commitments on the stimulus plan from other Countries the first time he meets with them. They are fed up with us and the last thing we need to do is throw our ideas around and tell them that it's the only way to save everything and they'd better do it. That would make sure that they wouldn't do it.
He is also wanting to meet with the other leaders, an example would be Iran's leaders to get on good terms with them. However this hasn't been going very well, they are very angry and only have angry words to speak. He will also be meeting with two other leaders, Russia's and China's. These leaders are not too happy with us either because they feel that U.S. is trying to "dominate global affairs."
Another thing that Obama will more than likely not talk about during these meetings are stimulus spending to bolster the economies. However if they would do this administration officials say that it would prompt a global economy recovery. Instead world leaders will be looking to restore global growth. Our ability to give any kind of spending advice is over for now because of the way bush threw around his weight and gave orders and also because we're in a financial crisis ourselves. America is a model to the rest of the world as to what not to do with your money. Things are looking up however because many feel that Obama is turning things around for us and many Europeans see him as "an embodiment of American ideals"
He will be going to Prague to help them set up a way to let the public know about street closings. NATO will be setting up an “international resistance camp” in France to rally against the war to try to get Obama to pull the troops out of Afghanistan.
The World criticizes Obama but still wants to hear of his miracle plans to get the World out of this mess. He is showing confidence in his stimulus plan working but knows that it will take time. The ideal is to fix the American economy but to not shut out the rest of the World to the resolution because we need all economies fixed for them all to work properly. He will be trying to let the other Countries know that we're not just trying to save ourselves however they might not be willing to listen to his ideas about getting out of the crisis because America doesn't have a good reputation with money anymore. Even though they may not want to listen at first we're still trying to lead by example and get us and everyone else out of this mess.
I think that Obama is being smart and not trying to push his ideas and get commitments on the stimulus plan from other Countries the first time he meets with them. They are fed up with us and the last thing we need to do is throw our ideas around and tell them that it's the only way to save everything and they'd better do it. That would make sure that they wouldn't do it.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Bill Moyers Journal Part II
I watched the second Bill Moyers Journal, Andrew J. Bacevich: Part II, for this post. Part II went on talking about the war, our problems with the (now old), president and why we wanted a new one.
The video started out saying that we weren't able to plan for the war in Iraq. He says that no one in Washington knew what they were doing.
Operation Dessert Storm was perceived to be a great success and a great victory. It started a new way of thinking. A new American way of war, we were able to have a false spectrum dominance-we felt we were dominant and we advertised it in the 90's but it was false. This set everything up for how Bush would handle the attack on 9/11. Everyone thought that our armies would be able to have a global war and be able to transform the middle east.
We think our expensive technologies/weapons will be able to dominate all. Well this doesn't seem to be true. Our enemies our getting us with homemade road bombs that only cost the price of a pizza to make. So it seems that all the money we're spending is worthless. The highjackers that killed 3,000 Americans didn't succeed because they had technology or the extra benefits we have, we just stupidly let down our guard and they got in.
We've learned from this experience that preventative war doesn't work so we should abandon Bush's "doctrine of preventative war," and throw it out. We only need to use the "Seize Force" approach of war as a last resort.
Instead of starting a Global War because of 9/11 we needed to organize a mission to do away woth the terrorists behind it.
When we look back at this war like we do with the Vietnam war we need to ask ourselves if it was worth it. How much money did we lose, what could it have went to instead. Questions that make us realize that we never need to do this again.
The video started out saying that we weren't able to plan for the war in Iraq. He says that no one in Washington knew what they were doing.
Operation Dessert Storm was perceived to be a great success and a great victory. It started a new way of thinking. A new American way of war, we were able to have a false spectrum dominance-we felt we were dominant and we advertised it in the 90's but it was false. This set everything up for how Bush would handle the attack on 9/11. Everyone thought that our armies would be able to have a global war and be able to transform the middle east.
We think our expensive technologies/weapons will be able to dominate all. Well this doesn't seem to be true. Our enemies our getting us with homemade road bombs that only cost the price of a pizza to make. So it seems that all the money we're spending is worthless. The highjackers that killed 3,000 Americans didn't succeed because they had technology or the extra benefits we have, we just stupidly let down our guard and they got in.
We've learned from this experience that preventative war doesn't work so we should abandon Bush's "doctrine of preventative war," and throw it out. We only need to use the "Seize Force" approach of war as a last resort.
Instead of starting a Global War because of 9/11 we needed to organize a mission to do away woth the terrorists behind it.
When we look back at this war like we do with the Vietnam war we need to ask ourselves if it was worth it. How much money did we lose, what could it have went to instead. Questions that make us realize that we never need to do this again.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Tackling Global Warming!
I read an article in the New York Times called Obama's Backing Raises Hopes for Climate Pact. This article talks about how we may now have hope to bring the World's most powerful Nations together and tackle global warming.
The attempt to do something like this in 1997 was a badly flawed plan called the Kyoto Protocol. Many countries didn't do their part to decrease carbon dioxide poisoning and the US didn't even seem to try or acknowledge they needed to. In the new protocol the US will be the, "forefront of the international climate effort and raising hopes that an effective international accord might be possible." In this protocol we will be, "reaching beyond reducing greenhouse gas emissions and including financial mechanisms and making good on longstanding promises to provide money and technical assistance to help developing countries cope with climate change." So in other words we will be doing a lot more. I feel that the reason for this is because we know now that we need to do much more because we're more informed about what is wrong in the World. Bill McKibben, who runs the environmental organization, feels that the US should take this protocol much more seriously because we learned from the Kyoto Protocol that if we don't no one does.
The article goes on to talk about how the UN's top climate official Yvo de Boer, will be making rounds and talking to everyone about the climate. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is trying to form a partnership with China on the Climate Control and expects a special envoy soon. Now the problem is going to be passing the bill, which Obama thinks it will be passed this year and to see how far everyone is willing to go. Many countries refused the Kyoto Protocol so George W. Bush rejected it.
It seems that this protocol has a much better chance than Kyoto because this time politics is involved and politics is what started it unlike Kyoto. Environmental ministers and climate scientists are who started Kyoto, for the new protocol we have higher officials, "laying the groundwork."
I love that we're coming up with a new pact with the powerful countries in the World to help save the environment. I hope that it works out much better this time than it did last time. I personally think it will though because we're finally taking it seriously because we know we have to. We have come a long way in ten years and we have learned a lot more about the environment and know we need to do something about it and soon!
The attempt to do something like this in 1997 was a badly flawed plan called the Kyoto Protocol. Many countries didn't do their part to decrease carbon dioxide poisoning and the US didn't even seem to try or acknowledge they needed to. In the new protocol the US will be the, "forefront of the international climate effort and raising hopes that an effective international accord might be possible." In this protocol we will be, "reaching beyond reducing greenhouse gas emissions and including financial mechanisms and making good on longstanding promises to provide money and technical assistance to help developing countries cope with climate change." So in other words we will be doing a lot more. I feel that the reason for this is because we know now that we need to do much more because we're more informed about what is wrong in the World. Bill McKibben, who runs the environmental organization, feels that the US should take this protocol much more seriously because we learned from the Kyoto Protocol that if we don't no one does.
The article goes on to talk about how the UN's top climate official Yvo de Boer, will be making rounds and talking to everyone about the climate. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is trying to form a partnership with China on the Climate Control and expects a special envoy soon. Now the problem is going to be passing the bill, which Obama thinks it will be passed this year and to see how far everyone is willing to go. Many countries refused the Kyoto Protocol so George W. Bush rejected it.
It seems that this protocol has a much better chance than Kyoto because this time politics is involved and politics is what started it unlike Kyoto. Environmental ministers and climate scientists are who started Kyoto, for the new protocol we have higher officials, "laying the groundwork."
I love that we're coming up with a new pact with the powerful countries in the World to help save the environment. I hope that it works out much better this time than it did last time. I personally think it will though because we're finally taking it seriously because we know we have to. We have come a long way in ten years and we have learned a lot more about the environment and know we need to do something about it and soon!
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