Is Eight Enough?

All week I have been following the story of the octuplets born in California this past January. I am intrigued by the mother and the different ways that people are reacting. This story has been so controversial beacause, Nadya Suleman, who already had six children at home, no job, single and lives on disability and food stamps, went back to the fertility doctor and was artificially insiminated again, resulting in eight very tiny babies. There is no doubt in my mind that Nadya loves each and every one of her children, but in the best interest of them was it right for to try to have more children after already having six. In the article, Eight Is Enough , Professor Patricia Williams states her view on the subject, saying "Nadya Suleman's saga, in other words, has highlighted a deep cognitive dissonance about whether children are "assets" or eternal expenditure, divine joy or devilish curse in a time of dwindling planetary resources. " It makes you wonder in a way, the reason for a single mother wanting to have more and more children.

I hope that Suleman will make the best life possible for the 14 children she is now reasponsible for. I know that it would be incredibly difficult to take care of all of them alone. I personally don't have any children yet but just working full time and going to school is very hard for me. I find myself drained of energy all the time. Each one of those children were a blessing in her life and I wish the best for all of them.

Effects of Economic Hardship

After I read "The Financial Crisis Is Driving Hordes of Americans to Suicide" on Alternet, I was really shocked to hear that as our economy worsens, the number of people commiting crimes and suicide has increased. How sad is it that things are getting so bad in our country, that people who are suffering from the bad economic times, see no other way out than taking their lives and leaving their families with the problems. The number of bank robberies have increased because people are robbing banks to pay their rent to avoid getting evicted. I think that instead of always bailing out the high power executives, why doesn't the government implement a plan to help people by foreclosure forgivness and set them up on a plan so they dont' lose their homes. I think that serious steps need to be taken to help the ordinary people as well as wall street, otherwise it is going to be a lot more difficult to get out of this recession.

Greed in America

After reading the article "Obama Calls Wall Street Bonuses 'Shameful'", from The New York Times, It made me realize how greedy people truly are. After government issued the $700 billion bail out money to the financial institutions, most of them didn't use the money the way it should have been used, which would have been to help fix the mortgage crisis. Instead, these high powered executives issued themselves huge bonuses and some such as John Thain of Merrill Lynch who spent well over $100,000 to remodel his office. I can't believe that some people have so little morality left in them that they would take money given to them to to "bail" them out and use it for their own personal interests. President Obama, has thankfully taken notice of what these high powered institutions have done and has called them out on it, telling them that they need to take responsibility. I think the idea of the "clawback" provisions is a great idea, because these executives that gave themselves bonuses from the bail out money, that money will be taken back. I think that is the right thing to do because if the rest of country has to suffer from the lose of jobs and the shrinking of 401k plans, then why is it far that these people can take our money to live even more lavishly than they already do.

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