Assignment 8 J.Williams

In his article, Its not about socialism, it about rescuing Capitalism, Harold Meyerson is calling for a more regulated form of capitalism. He is not calling President Obama a socialists but does compare him to Teddy Roosevelt. Mr. Meyerson does refer to our health-care policy and points out that there are 50 million Americans without health-care coverage and we have the highest infant mortality rate than 41 other countries. This is inconceivable to me- such a high mortality rate in such a technologically advanced country as ours.

Mr. Meyerson says the blame for our economic collapse doesn't belong to one person. The collapse he says is due to a flawed system. A system in need of restructuring if it is to work again.

A. Oliver Assignment #8

The article called, "It's not about socialism, it's about bringing back capitalism" written by the author Harold Meyerson, is about exactly what it sounds like. It is an explanation of precisely why you can not call Obama a socialists. Mainstream Conservatives are not mad at Obama for being a socialist, they are mad at him for making America's system more European. Socialists liberals, also, do not call his system Socialism, as a matter of fact, socialist Americans disagree with many things that Obama is doing.

The author believes in Obama's plan and goes on to say that if he succeeds in his plans, America will come out to be a more sustainable, competitive and social capitalist nation. However, he seems angry at people accusing them, when in all regards, it's everyone's fault and the flawed American system is to blame.

Assignment 8 B Brakefield

In the article "It's not about socialism, it's about rescuing capitalism" in The Washington Post, this article is talking about now that Obama is President we are all being claimed as all socialist now. This article is written by Harold Meyerson and he is saying that really there is more absence of advocates of socialism now then there was in 1930 during the capitalist crisis. Meyerson is standing his ground on being a true democratic socialists and he states that Capitalism bred its own overhaul.
I think that this article was written to prove a point in Meyerson point of view on what he thinks of socialism and capitalism. He is arguing that there is to much silence from the people now when its really time to speak up. This article was written for the public but pointed more to people who are not speaking up as being socialist and wanting capitalism.

Assignment #8 J Miller

The article "It's not about socialism, it's about rescuing capitalism" by Harold Meyerson of the Washington Post is directing this to the American people and to the capitalist believers that socialism is taking over. With all the commotion in the media like Newsweek and spokespersons like Newt Gingrich and Mike Hucabee with their lashing comments like "We are all socialists now", "socialist republics" and "European socialism is transplanted to Washington" doesn't help the change that President Obama has in mind. This makes it impossible today to find a left-leaning party anywhere. Conservatives never bashed socialism because it was stalking America but fought against progressive reforms of free universal education, minimum wage or other tighter financial regulations and also keeping the U.S. free from universal health care resulting in the world's highest health care costs. Conservatives attacked Roosevelt as a socialist as they also attack Obama even though he is engaged in rebuilding capitalism not socialism. President Obama's stimulus plan is the only way to inject our economy and also by using more tax dollars for education and research.

As we all know the U.S. is in huge deficit and weather we agree with President Obama's decisions he was elected into office. He actually seems like he really cares in turning this country around and making a difference. The fact is that people hate change but sometimes change isn't a bad thing plus it's not like we have many options anyway.

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Assignment #6 scastaldo

We are talking about the worlds economic situation in this article written by Paul Krugman in the New York times. Why/how did we get into this situation and how do we get out? Krugman belives it all started outside the US beging mostly in Asian in the 1990's. The real estate market is another cause of some of the problems we are seeing worldwide. The real estate market effects every other market to me. if the housing market is bad then people don't want to buy cars, go casual shopping, go to the movies, or go out to eat, therefor their is not as much money going out into the market to support the workers and it is just a downward sprial.
Krugman says that part of the problem is the "saving glut." Gluttony I belive is part of the problem, but not from those who save money. From people who wanted more then they could afford, from houses, cars, clothes, handbags, all of that. And like anything else living a life style you can't afford will catch up with you eventually, and the fallback from that is what is happening to our economy.

Assignment #6: A Oliver

In this article, "The Revenge of the Glut" written by Paul Krugman, the author addresses the world's poor circulation of money. Also, he continues on to explain what cheap money is, and why it is ruining the circulation, mainly, by pooling internationally. This article is adressing the entire world. The majority of the article is based on a speech written by Ben Bernanke, the federal reserve chairman.

He states that the begginging of all these problems began in Asia, during the Chinese financial crisis; when China began trying to outsouce itself it began pumping out money into other countries, creating bad money, which drops the value of their currency, most of these funds and resources pooled into America which began to cause problems for our country. Apparently, many people think that Europes countries have magical and untouchable economies, the write of this article contests this and says that if they take the same deregulation steps that we foolishly did, that they will quickly fall into the same detrimental boat that we're in.

Assignment #8 scastaldo

Harold Meyerson is writting in the Washington Post about how ridiculus it is that some people say that we are headed into a socialist government. Meyerson takes a very sarcastic approach to making his point that he belives it is the conservatives system and their fault for the breakdown our economy is having right now. Meyerson doesn't belive that we are headed toward socialism but that we are just correcting a system that didn't work in the first place.
I understand that certian things like our health care system mabey are not the best, but that it is definetly not the worst in the world. However I don't belive that "universal health care" is the answer, i belive that is trading one problem for another. Having times being bad right now is just apart of the ups and downs of a free market. I don't belive that bail outs or hand outs are going to fix the problem, they will only prolong it, and if you let the free market take its corse then you will find that everything will bounce back again.

Assignment #6 T Parrish

The article "Revenge of the Glut," was written by Paul Krugman in The New York Times. This article is written for the people of America, and also parts to people of countries all over the world. It explains that are where many clues to problems that where over looked. Most of our problems occurred from money being to able and readily available. A flip-flop occurred from problems from Asian markets to now European and American markets.

All this money made people feel like they could take more risk and try to increase there profits and economic standing to fast. And as one thing began to go, others soon followed suit cause the house bubble to start the auto gaints problems to much greater problems. People instead of trying to live above there means are now learning to budget and find cheap methods of getting the things they want or need.

Assignment 6 C.Caruso

The title of this article is Revenge of the Glut and the author is Paul Krugman from the New York Times. He is writing the United States citizens of about the decline of value in money. It starts out with the Subprime crisis, now to be honest i didn't know what that meant. So i had to look it up and see what it meant. It talks about how we have spent so much money, investing it in houses, but then the mortgage delinquencies and foreclosers started losing their value.

We then began borrowing money from other countries, but there was a problem with Asia and their finances. And after that happened the countries began to pretty much give out cheap money. Our country has struggled financially lately, and it's because they do not know how to budget their money correctly. Banks have been getting in trouble for giving out loans to people that can't pay them back, so they get in even more trouble. Then they have been printing too much money so the value of a dollar is going down.

Assignment # 6 D.Feaster

In the article Revenge of the Glut written by Paul Krugman talks about some issues like the subprime crisis and some of the leading fraction of the problem. The article is direct towards the American people and the readers of the New York Times. When written the article discuss about the different debt trouble that keep emerging.

One question that could be asked is how this global debt crisis happen? Many believe like Ben Bernanke it has something to do with the Asia. He said "emerging economies of Asia had been major importers of capital, borrowing abroad to finance their development." Bernanke was just to saying the Asia is consider to be the top emerging counties. In the conclusion the main issue and points the author is making is in the decline of money.

Assignment 6 J. Williams

"The Revenge of the Glut" is an article published in the New York Timesand was written by Paul Krugman. The article is directed to U.S. citizens as well as the rest of the world. It discusses our economic struggles of today as well as gives a history of Asia's economic history in the 1990's.

Krugman mentions a speech made by then Federal Reserve chairmen-Ben Bernanke. Krugman notes that while trying to sound positive, Bernanke'sspeech was a forshadow of what we are facing today. Krugman points out that Americans aren't the only ones suffering these tough economic times, this is a global recession. For us to move forward we need to learn from our mistakes. It has been said that those who do not learn from their mistakes are bound to repeat them and i beleive that applies here.

Assignment#6 B.Adams

The article "Revenge of the Glut," was written by Paul Krugman in The New York Times. Paul Krugman writes the article for the people of America to inform them that the situation we are facing now could have been avoided. Not only does he address America but other countries as well.

Krugman want to blame the housing market and banks for not lending money for part of our economic problem.This article shows that our economic problems are somewhat worse than we have ever experienced, everything is falling apart and we need to start at the foundation and begin building up. The mistakes our country encountered should be a learning experience.
Together as one we should all do better to improve the financial crisis.

Assignment 6 JMcCrorey

The “Revenge of the Gult” is an article written by Paul Krugman in which it was published in the New York Times. The article is particular directed to the citizens of this great country and also to the rest of our friends and neighbors across the world. The article is written to show that our economic crisis is so problematic that it is not only affecting America but also the rest of the globe.

The article explains that our economic crisis is worse than the problems we experienced in the 1990’s. He states that we need to learn from our mistakes and use our mistakes as a formula so that we may emerge from this crisis successful. Krugman also mention the "Subprime Crisis" and how it was such a worry. He stated that the subprime was nothing to worry about and how we could learn from that situation. For America to escape from this economic mess we must go back to our roots and make sure we establish check and balance in every function of business and life.

Assignment #6 VMoore

Paul Krugman confronts the lead of to the economic crisis that we are now in, in his article Revenge of the Glut, seen in The New York Times. Krugman agrees with Ben Bernanke who said that the reason for the US falling economy lies in Asia. When the Asian economies started to fall, they gathered foreign assets putting their capital into the world. This capital was cheap and led to the trade deficit that we now have. Other small European countries also are running into this problem.

This fast inflow of money made investors feel like they were secure. This led to the buyers feeling like they would be fine to buy. But this quickly fell as we realized the problems we had created from the imports. Now people are losing their homes and struggling to pay off loans. So no one is investing anymore, causing the economy to rapidly fall. If something doesn't happen soon our economy is going to crash and burn. We can only hope that Obama's stimulus package will inject the money that we need into the economy.

Assignment #6 areid

The article this week looks to be written as a suttle venting post and an opinion about how America got in the economic mess that we are in today. He bases his argument off of a speech that Ben Bernanke gave four years ago. The autor agrees with Bernanke when he says that the slump came from the trade deficit of the U.S. Bernanke said four years ago that the problem lied in Asia and not the U.S. because of all the importing of capital goods. Now the U.S. has over taken the same problem as Asia did but in a much larger scale. The author says that the Asia problems were big for the times but seem minisquell compared to Americas' problem.
The author writes to an audiance that likes to hear lots of opinions and possibly takes what they like and uses it to have conversation or takes the author's opinion as their own. The author sums up the piece by a couple points. Businesses can not invest in the amount of savings that is wanted. The saving of money is the best thing to do but to keep the market flowing and to keep buisnesses on their feet they have to invest. The question now becomes how are they going to be able to invest what others want them to. This paradox "is a global slump that leaves everyone worse off. So that’s how we got into this mess. And we’re still looking for the way out."

Assignment 6 Mward

"Revenge of the Glut" by Paul Krugman in The New York Times sums up the views of Krugman related to the recession of the American economy.suffering from a global paradox of thrift: around the world, desired saving exceeds the amount businesses are willing to invest. And the result is a global slump that leaves everyone worse off. Basically too many investors are putting their money into businesses that are failing, in turn everyone is losing money. Like the reason the housing market crashed was the shady transactions of some banks and lenders, the reason the stock market is crashing is the unwise investments of some accountants and investors. Whether they be purposely invested or not.

Assignment #6 J Miller

New York Times article "Revenge of the Glut" written by Paul Krugman is directed to the American audience. It informs us as American people that subprime lending and bad home loans are only part of the problem of our nations financial downfall, we're in a world of troubled borrowers. The global debt crisis is so widespread and the answer for it begins with our giant trade deficit which was suppose to be our capital inflows but ended up spreading money to other nations according to Ben Bernanke who is a Federal Reserve chairman. This caused many smaller European economies to thrive while most of global savings glut ended up in America. American bankers hid risks and fooled their investors giving American homeowners greater assets in their homes while currencies were strong but while assets disappeared the debt still remained causing manufactures to collapse mainly in the car industry.

Our nation has made many poor economic decisions and it has occurred over several decades it's not like we fell into this huge hole of debt overnight. Yes, Americans get money hungry and will do what ever it takes to make more or do whatever it takes for their company to strive without ever thinking about the downside but sometimes you have to find yourself in a huge hole before anything good ever happens. Although the glut is bigger than ever, we're all in hopes that one day there is a chance in saving it.

Assignment 6 C.Carolina

"Revenge of the Glut" by Paul Krugman of The New York Times sums up the views of Paul Krugman related to the recession of the American economy. Krugman blames the housing market and the lack of lending by our national banks for the current economic state. As it is true that the housing market fall was directly related to the illusive tactics of bankers and lenders. Basically Krugman states the "revenge of the glut" is the cause of our recession. As a result of imports exceeding exports, the fall of the american dollar, and the fall of the domestic automobile industry we now have concrete examples of this "revenge" Paul Krugman titles his article after. This much is true, we and respectively other powerful countries alike are facing hard economic times for a number of reasons. Although it is necessary to find the cause of the problem, it's even more important to formulate a solution. Regardless of the "how" and the "why" the American people need to know the "when" and the "where". The quicker the better.

Assignment # 6, T. Beasley

This article titled "Revenge of the Glut" by Paul Krugman in The New York Times addresses the current issues faced in the economic crisis of our nation. It also speaks of the same issues being faced in other places worldwide. It looks at what happened to get the situation as bad as it is.

The "revenge" is that our nation has ended up in this crisis due mainly to poor choices made in lending and by the fact that there have been more imports made and too few exports of this country's goods. The article even mentions that the American banking system hid risks and fooled investors.

Overall the article attempts to explain the reasons behind our nation's current economic problems. It attempts to explain to the average American citizen what actions and which people are to blame for our current situation. The ending sentence pretty much says what's important..."We're still looking for the way out."

Assignment #6 S.Layman

The article "Revenge of the Gult" was written by Paul Krugman in the New York Times.This article was written to show that our economic problem is one that is not only ours, but one that the rest of the world has faced. It is directed toward the US citizens as well as the rest of the world.

It shows how our economic crisis is a greater form of the one that Asia experienced awhile back. Things keep getting worse and the value of money keeps going down more and more. When countries think that they are safe and "all is well" is when it all starts to crack. All the problems start to emerge to the surface and they are problems that many other countries have seen....or even contributed to.

This argument kind of shows us that other countires have been through this before. While some have rebuilt themselves it takes others awhile longer...hopefully we can get through these tough times just like Asia.

assignment # 6 Mperez

The article "Revenge of the Gult" was written by Paul Krugman in the New York Times. It was directed to the american people in the country showing them that we could have prevented all that happened in the country. Paul Krugman talked about the "Subprime Crisis" and how it was such a worry. He also say that subprime was nothing to worry about. Kurgman answers the question "How did this global debt crisis happen?", with a speech given by Ben Bernanke. Bernanke's speech, titled “The Global Saving Glut and the U.S. Current Account Deficit",foreshadowed what is happening to our economy four years ago. He points out the mid-1990's emerging economies of Asia had been major importers of capital, borrowing abroad to finance their development. Krugman explains how we got into what we are in now. I think this was written to have the american realize that there were so many different ways that we could have avoided aleast some of the situation that were in and no one did anything to try and stop them. So basically were paying the consequence for our actions.

Assignment # 6 S. Suarez

The article "Revenge of the Gult" was written by Paul Krugman in the New York Times and was directed toward the american people in order to show how there were so many ways we could have avoided the situation that the country is facing now. The article was written toward the public showing that all the warning signs were there and we all refused to listen to them. Krugman arguse that there was so many ways to avoid alot of this but the american people refused, and now we are paying the consequences.
The article also talks about the "Subprime Crisis" and how it was such a worry if it could be contained. He also shares how subprime only contributed just a small fraction to our problem today. Kurgman states the question "How did this global debt crisis happen?", and replys with a speech given by Ben Bernanke. Bernanke's speech, titled “The Global Saving Glut and the U.S. Current Account Deficit", foreshadowed what is happening to our economy four years ago. He points out that the emerging economies of Asia in the mid 1990's had been major importers of capital, borrowing abroad to finance their development.
In conclusion, The article brings up key points on how in the past these future events were predicted to happen but we did nothing to try and stop them. Now we have to deal with the consequences of our actions.

Assignment 6 bbrakefield

In the article "Revenge of the Gult" by Paul Krugman, in the New York Times. Krugman starts out talking about the "Subprime Crisis" and how it was such a worry if it could be contained. He shares how now that subprime was just a small fraction of our problem today. Kurgman answers the question "How did this global debt crisis happen?", with a speech given by Ben Bernanke. Bernanke's speech, titled “The Global Saving Glut and the U.S. Current Account Deficit", foreshadowed four years ago what is happening now. He points out the mid-1990's emerging economies of Asia had been major importers of capital, borrowing abroad to finance their development. Krugman simply expalins how we got into this mess.
This article was written I think as a simple slap in the face to Americans as to how there were so many ways we could have avoided aleast some of the situation we are in now. The article was written to the public showing that all the warning signs were there we all refused to listen to them. Krugmans argument is that there was so many ways to avoid alot of this but America refused now we are paying the consequence.

Assignment #6 E. Lear

The article is from the New York Times and the author is Paul Krugman. The article is tiled Revenge of the Glut. Funny title but it says it all. We have moved away from the old days when we use to worry about the Russia are going to attack and the atomic bomb fallout. Now worry about the econcomic more than we do about the wars. We worry about own money and how we are going to get by.
The author states that we has a nation have to worry about the Globely Crisis before we can worry about anything else because if we don't get the Globely Enocomic in check we are going to loss the battle of the Crisis at hand. We need to get own government back in order and get own stock market back to the norm and we need to check the banks captial because if we can get the banks to start doing the loans and get the money out there and stop worrying about the governments stress test. The banks should open there doors and stop worrying about things that are dumb. And they need to be shone that there are the once hurting our enocionmic the most has of now.

Assignment #5: A. Oliver

In the article, "Will: The continuing fall of Federalism" written by George F. Will, the author is angry at the apparent stupidity of our leaders. Feingold is one that he lists on several occasions when referring to people who seemingly don't have a clue.

I believe that Will agrees with him on several arrangements, such as a speculation of the balances of power; however, I am getting the feeling that author sees Feingold as being lazy and sloppy. The author clearly does not want to simply change the problem, at the risk of merely creating another; he wants to be more direct, and get rid of it altogether. He comically picks at Feingold, saying that "Feingold must troubles with the plurals", this is referring to him wanting to go to every single state and tediously change each state code. Feingold has two solutions and the author despises both.

Asignment 5 BBrakefield

In the article "Will: The Continuing fall of Federalism" by George Will in the Washington Post; Feingold is trying to amend the Constitution to make every other state to follow Wisconsins ways of electing senate seats in case of vacancies. I think this article is directed toward any American who is against Federalism and want to keep the framework that is already in place. I think the author wanted to ensure the priciple of seperation of powers was enforced.

Assignment #5 areid

The article this week discusses Senator Rus Feingold's plan to rid the Constitution of the 17th Amendment. The author discusses why Feingold would like to get rid of the amendment and why he would want it gone but he also makes fun of Feingold at the end of the piece. The reader would have to believe that the author does not think to highly of Feingold because of other ideas that he has had. The author might like the idea of getting rid of the 17th Amendment but coming from Feingold's mouth; the author would rather not listen.
Feingold wants to rid the 17th Amendment because he does not the that appointing people on the Senate for their individual state really is not the voice of the people. He thinks that the seats of the Senate should be elected for just like the other two braches of power, House and President. The author points out that this would take forever to elect all of the Senators from each state but I beleive the Feingold is right that we do need to elect the Senate seats because I feel that they would hear the voice of the people more.
Lastly, the author does poke fun at Feingold's thoughts that hurts Feingold's creditability. Feingold wanted to put a stipulation on government's speeches. The author says the with Feingold's thoughts he would also be rewriting the 1st Amendment.
“Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech unless it really, really wants to in order to guarantee that there will be only as much speech about the government as the government considers appropriate, and at times the government approves.”
Really?!?

Assignment #5 T. Parrish

the article "The Continuing Fall of Federalism" by George F. Will, talks about how Senator Feingold wishes to change the Constitution to, "No person shall be a Senator from a State unless such person has been elected by the people thereof. When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such state shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies". Making it so that the people can elect this officials rather then an elector votes or a higher elected official.

I agree with the idea that the people should be able to pick the elected officials even when for some reason those picked can not serve. This article is written towards the American people to make them aware of this issue. The basic argument made is that we should keep the Constitution the way it is, because that's the way the framers would want it. The problem with this times changes and so do our laws, the basics of the argument is based of assumptions of people no longer with us, I find no effect to these "facts" Will gives us.

Assignment # 5 Mperez

The article “The continuing fall of federalism” by George Will appeared in the Washington post, and was directed to the public and addresses the topic of federalism in the United States political system.This article was written to speak about the opinion of George Will and protest Sen. Feingolds plan to change an amendment which would allow senators to be selected by higher officials instead of an electoral vote. I think they should leave everything how it is because if this were to happen then the people of this country would not have a vote on who is being chosen to fill the seats. I dont think changing the amendment will change anything at this time.

Assignment 5 JMcCrorey

This article is about the fall and decline of Federalism in the United States of America. The article is directed to the public and the author of the article is George F. Will of the Washington Post. The article is named The Fall of Federalism. It is written to voice the opinion of Sen. Russ Feingold which to point out for him not apologizing for his action in the Senate on an open seat. Also, the plan to change an amendment which would allow senators to be selected by higher officials instead of an electoral vote.

In doing so the senate would not be elected by the people who it is supposed to govern. Without proper check and balances the country would run into turmoil. We need to continue with our checks and balances by making sure we elect the leaders we want in office.

Assignment #5 Matt Ward

In Will's article "The continuing fall of federalism" it is argued that Sen. Feingold is attempting to change amendment 17 so that state official vacancies be filled via higher authorites rather than a popular vote. Now some may see this is as a advantage for the higher authorities in states to put who they want in office and have things run their way. I dont want to say it would be unamerican. But it would definetly go against what this country was built on and stands for. Democracy and freedom. Sure there have been a few bad eggs come out of the popular and electoral voting processes (i.e.) Blagoevich, Dick Nixon, and of course George W. Bush.

I agree with Will in this. It would be unconstitutional to allow anyone other than the people who are being represented by them choose their state official officers. If we were to allow this to happen this one time. More and more state legislators will follow and we will lose our foundation as a democracy. So yes, in conclusion Sen. Feingold is wrong in wanting to change the basis of our country.

Assignment#5 B.Adams

The article "Will: The Continuing Fall of Federalism," written by George F. Will of the Washington Post appearing in The State.com was written and directed toward the American people. The article addresses federalism in the United Stated political system.

Senator Feingold wants to try and change an amendment which allows senators to be selected by higher officials instead of by electoral votes. If this were to happen then the people of this country would not have a vote on who is being chosen to fill the seats. I feel as though things should be left the way they are now: that is everything for the people by the people.

Assignment #5 S.Grich

In the article "The Continuing Fall of Federalism" by George F. Will, it explains how Senator Russ Feingold is trying to overwrite the 17th amendment. Feingold has already changed the first amendment and is now trying to reshape the constitution yet again.
I feel everything in the constituion should be left exactly how it is now. There is no reason to change this amendment. I feel this change could only make a state weaker because they would not be able to fill an open position as senator. So the real question is why fix something thats not broken?

Assignment #5 A.Scalf

This article, "Will:The Continuing Fall of Federalism", was written by George F. Will and appeared in the Washington Post. I think it is directed towards the American people.

The 17th amendment currently states that if a Senate vacancy should occur, an electoral vote will take place to fill that vacancy. Feingold is trying to change that amendment to where an "executive of authority of such state shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies."

Will thinks the 17th amendment is appropriate in its current state and disagrees with Feingold. Personally, I agree with Will and also disagree with Feingold.

Assignment #5 D.Feaster

In the article The continuing fall of federalism the author George F. Will talks about how senators are trying to change the Constitution. The article was written on February 22, 2009 for the State and is direct towards American readers. In the 17th Amendment said that Senate when occur have the "the executive authority". And also of that affected state "shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies." Also in that amendment said that the legislature of any State may empower executive thereof to make temporary appointments meanwhile the people fill the vacancies by elected at good representative.

The author also states that a no one shall be a Sentor from any state unless such person has een elected by the people thereof. If the vacancies was to happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of the state shall issue writes of election to fill such vacancies.

Assignment #5 M. Capps

In his article "The continued fall of federalism", appearing in The Washington Post, George Will is arguing against Feingold-McCain, an act designed to force states to have an election to fill vacant Senate seats. His main argument against this falls back on "Framers intentions", which is a really weak argument because it is based on the assumption that he knows exactly what the framers had in mind for every situation when the Constitution was written, or that the framers could even begin to imagine what politics would be like in 2009. However, I do agree with him on the point that federalism should be protected and that states should be able to pass their own laws to protect their own interests. An argument could easily be made that popular vote is a horrible way to pick officials, all we have to do is take a good look at some people elected in the past (McCarthy, Blagojevich....Bush). Having some people sitting in the Senate not elected by the generally ignorant masses isn't such a bad thing.

While the general idea Will is trying to put forward is a good one, his use of negative and sarcastic language greatly degrades his argument. Such negative attacks on those he disagrees with has become a Republican trademark and does a disservice to the people that might actually agree with him. In fact his language is so negative that it might sway some people to disagree with him just because it is so painful to read. In my opinion he is blinded by party loyalty and unable to see some of the logical fallicies that are so apparent in his thinking. He uses sensational language and greatly exaggerates the actions of his opponents. Apparently drowning ones opponent in an overwhelming amount of policitally raised money is an issue of free speech, and stopping said drowning amounts to a "gutting" of the first amendment. I'm sorry that you feel that way Mr Will, but a corporation giving millions of dollars to a policital candidate is not an act of policital speech; it amounts to the buying of loyalty from a candidate and a monetary investment for some type of gain later on.

Assignment #5 VMoore

Seen in TheState.com, George Will's article, titled Will: The Continuing Fall of Federalism, explains that Sen Feingold wants to change amendment 17 so that we can elect State Representatives by higher officials rather than an electoral vote. Will thinks we should leave it so that if there is a Senate vacancy, there is a vote by state constituents. Feingold also supports restricting political financing so that there are restrictions on the time, content, and quantity of political speeches.

I think we should leave the law the way it is now. By restricting political financing the people will be withheld information that they could need. Feingold wants to use this to his advantage in the votes of the people. This could make it much easier to have political scandals in almost any situation.

Assignment #5 J Miller

The article Will: The continuing fall of federalism appeared in TheState.com written by George F. Will of the Washington Post was directed to the American people. He informs us of the unapologetic Senator Russ Feingold would like to follow his McCain-Feingold evisceration of the 1st Admendment continuing to vandalize the Constitution. Senator Feingold would prefer to amend the 17th Admendment when it comes to filling in vacancies of the U.S. Senate. This causing no person to be Senator of state until such person is elected by the people making the Senate as responsive to the people as possible. Although the Farmers gave three political components of the federal government but also different electors to reinforce separation of powers. If you ask me I think Feingold's ideas of electing in vacancies for the U.S. Senate is dumbfounded and a waste of time. Why not put the next person in charge to fill in the position it's their job. That's why we choose people for these positions, plus it eliminates all that time taking up votes.

Assignment #5, T. Beasley

This article "Will: The Continuing Fall of Federalism", written by George F. Will of the Washington Post and appearing on TheState.com is addressing the American public. He is criticizing the 17th Amendment to the Constitution. He is explaining that the current process of filling Senate vacancies allows for a replacement to be appointed by the state executive authority until an election by the people is convenient.

The change proposed by Feingold-McCain would mandate that the state in question hold an immediate popular election to fill the seat. Will goes on to argue that this would be a further corruption of Federalism. He points out the fact that the Framers intended to divide the power to elect among different powers,"the people, the state legislators and the Electoral College". The 17th Amendment allows the people the right to choose the Senator, but the position can be filled by the executive authority of a state until a popular vote can occur. The proposed change would make it necessary to hold an immediate election to fill the vacancy because it would not allow the executive authority to make "temporary" appointments. If this were the case, all the nonsense that just occured with Blagojevich would have been nonexistent.

Feinfold-McCain, in my opinion, are right on target for keeping the government as it should be: by the people, for the people, of the people. The author of this article is clearly confused as to what makes America function as it should: The power of the popular opinion. This force is what grounds Senators to those to which they owe their position. Would we rather they owe their position of power to the state legislature's "special interests", or to the general population of the state?

Assignment # 5 S. Suarez

The article “The continuing fall of federalism” by George Will of the Washington Post is directed toward the american public and addresses the topic of federalism in the United States political system.This article was basically written to voice the opinion of George will and protest Sen. Feingolds plan to change an amendment which would allow senators to be selected by higher officials instead of an electoral vote.
I agree with Gerge will's argument because senators should be elected by the people and not other members of the political system. If this amendment change were to happen then the people wouldn't have a say in who gets chosen into office and the senate will be able to chose whoever they want to fill in the vacant seat. This goes against many political standards because this country is supposed to be run by the people; Senators and political seats of power are only supposed to be representitives of the United States. If the goverment were allowed to chose who they want to be in political offices then this would no longer be a country run by the people, Instead it would be run by the government and us americans wouldn't be allowed to have a say in the political process. In the end federlism is a good thing in order to keep this country from going into turmoil.

Assignment #5 S.Layman

The article “The continuing fall of federalism” by George Will appeared in the Washington post, and was directed to the public. It shows the oppinion of Mr. Will against Sen. Feingold, because he is trying to change an amendment. One that would allow senators to be selected by higher officials instead of an electoral vote.

In doing so the senate would not be elected by the people who it is supposed to govern. While there are a lot of changes going on in the world (most not for the good of the public) , this just shouldnt be messed with to add to it....and Feingold isnt even appologetic about any of it....