http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/f/federal_budget_us/index.html?scp=1&sq=federal%20government%20currents%20article&st=cse
In this article it starts off by saying that President Obama and the Congress making changes to the budget, for 2011. At the beginning of the year the government was close to a shut down so that a budget for the United States could be figured out. There was much debating about how the budget would be, and how the action would take place. Mr. Obama suggested that a "clean" bill be laid out that would reduce the deficits by $4 trillion. This action would take over 10 years to take care of the spending cuts. As the conversation went on there the deadline was reaching a close so the decision need to take place. Finally a compromise was made The President and the Congress reached an agreement that would raise the debt up to $2,4 Trillion. this would be enough to keep borrowing into 2013. The pact for this amount would be used in spending cuts over the next 10 years.
This article relates to the unit that we are studying now by not how John Locke's beliefs were but how they are the opposite of how he thought. Locke saw that we needed to live in a way that we could look after ourselves, but the way that this budget has been handled shows how our leaders are able to take care of ALL of us. Its hard with that much pressure having to worry about the budget and keeping America afloat, and our leaders are doing that in the best way possible. Locke's idea was that we would live off natural rights, we have taken some of the aspects but have left behind others. If we were able to be a smaller country those Rights might work but since we live in such a large country we have had to make do with what we have. The effects on America with this new budget will end up being answered once the end of this years comes.
