CNN news 2011-04-16
This debate over budgets and deficits is about more than just numbers on the page, it's about more than just cutting and spending, it's about the kind of future that we want, it's about the kind of country we believe it. Any serious plan to tackle our deficit were (to) require us to put everything on the table and take on excess spending wherever it exists in the budget. A serious plan doesn't require us to balance our budget overnight. In fact,economists think that with the economy just starting growing again, we need to face the approach, but it does require top decisions and support from our leaders in both parties now.
I think all of us understand that this debt that hangs over our head ,hurts our economy and hurts our ability to creat jobs in America. I think all those understand that not median our obligations, our debt obligations is a very bad idea and nobody wants to take that risk. But having said that, it is time for us to get serious about the big challenges that face our country.
Resting on the bottom of that pool is a big alligator.Anne Marie Donovan owns the new port richey home that gator taking a dip in her pool.Donovan says her husband first noticed the alligator when he came home for lunch.A trapper showed up to get the gator out of the pool.She got a rope around the gator's nail and then began to roll around in the water.At one point that gator took a trunk out of the tire.It was a 'tug-of-war'between the gator and the trapper.The trapper finally got the gator's head out of the pool.She asked the neighbor for help,taping its jaws shut.That neighbor Paul Michael says taping those jaws shut was scary.I'm not fond of any kind of leisure and she got asking me to tape further and further closer to her hands.That was pretty tough to do.
From afar it looks like dust rising from the Japanese town of Minamisanriku, but those standing on higher ground then realize this is the tsunami they had feared.We can hear the roar of the water ,all those through cars and buildings.Then the horrifying site of people running away from the water,literally running for their lives.One woman runs just ahead of the wave ,carrying the roof of the building and the camera moves away.The person who uploaded the footage commented that all those in the field survived, but they said nothing about these residents.