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Imagining a deficit plan from republicans
By David Leonard
In an effort to “save America” republicans have once again made the possibility of a specific tax cut and higher spending cuts. The republicans have discussed that the federal government is no longer self sufficient and in order to save our national security and economic future we must raise taxes. The reality is this even with these steps the deficit is far from over by the year 2035 America should have plummeted 1.9 trillion. The irony in this is that the three major organizations that are eating up the economy which is Medicare, military and social security are the ones exempt from the cuts. Also we can’t afford to be a self sufficient country no more but President Obama recently established a new health bill.
As far as the title goes I feel it correlates to the story very well because it is short and sweet and gets straight to the point. It sums up the main idea. The lead is a “What” lead and was written to where as the writer got straight to the point and explained what the article was about. There were many sources used in this article to make it a strong story for example the article included Paul Ryan a republican on the housing committee and also Marco Rubio the senate candidate in Florida. Despite the fact that the story had many sources I felt that the writer could’ve got a democrats point of also to create a less bias feeling of the story seeing that all the opinions were from a republican. A thing that could’ve been added to have made the story stronger was a graphical deficit chart to go along with the statements about our economy to make reality of the story more serious.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/business/economy/29leonhardt.html?_r=1&ref=business
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