13 Wrongfully Taken and 1 Chosen

There was a deadly shooting in the small town of Binghamton, New York in the late afternoon of Friday April 3, 2009.  During classes discussing citizenship inside the building of the Immigration Center of New York a gunman mad a fatal decision to take the lives of 13 innocent people and his own.  The gunman, who was later identified as Jiverly Wong also injured 4 other people in the process of this act of violence, as described by President Obama.  The gunman who was a Vietnamese immigrant seemed to be very disturbed, as he wrote a letter in broken English to the local news station stating that he would commit this crime two days before the act.  The emergency call was made by a receptionist who was shot by the gunman.  She acted dead until it was safe for her to call the police, unfortunately the massacre had already begun.   After the shooting the police raided Wong’s house and confiscated a rifle case, hard drives from his computer, paper bags and a small suitcase.  He used a high powered rifle to commit his crimes.  It was later found that Wong heard voices in his head telling him to kill.  He should have driven himself to the mental institution that Friday afternoon, there was nothing that the American Civic Association Center could have done for him.

The End to the Recession, True or False?

President Obama met with Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday April 1, 2009 to discuss the end of the recession worldwide.  Not only does the leader of the free world insist on a global deal that will improve the economy of the United States but help but the entire world on a better path financially.  The Imminent Group of 20 leaders summit was held.  Obama presented his idea to the French President Nicolas Sarkozy as an “enormous consensus” that would gather the world’s wealthy and emerging countries and get a jump start on the global economy.  The French president insisted that the deal be completely secure and not have any “false compromises” within the plan.  Even though the congress has released their firm grip on the idea to push more money into the American government from other countries through economic stimulus programs Germany and France are still unhappy about the international regulation to help fix the financial market.  The Prime Minister joined forces with President Obama during the news conference in London insisting that doing nothing was not the solution to solving the problem.  With other countries like Europe and France being in financial ruins, an economic stimulus plan would not be a bad idea for the world to reshape its financial status and continue to make the world a better place for the future.