Up In Arms

The article up in arms is about having teachers carry gun on school grounds for the safety of the children. The school board allowed teachers to have guns. Most of the students disagree for the teachers to be carry guns on school ground. One student says that teachers being allowed to carry guns put the students at more risk. The district can’t afford security guards so they let teachers carry. Some says less than one percent of children who are killed of kidnap are by someone else are attacked at school. Teachers having guns puts up the risk of someone taking it from them and miss using it. Students are arguing that teachers should not have guns because what if a teacher gets mad and knows that he/she knows that they have a gun. Teachers are hired to teach not to act like security guards a student says.

Wall Street blues

The Wall Street blues is about saving the U.S. economy from a total collapse (George W. Bush says were in the midst of a serious financial crisis “Our entire economy is in danger”). Thing are getting so bad that the mortgage on people’s homes are raising that they can’t afford them so they are taking them away, so now the mortgages on homes are worth less then they we. banks are losing more money. So the Government took over the two companies and gave $200 billion to fix the houses. Still the marketers were not satisfied and the economy did not bounce back. So Ben Bernanke the chairman for the Federal Reserve warned congress to act fast. But then it would become harder to borrow money and get credit. So Treasury Secretary Paulson asked for $700 billion from the government to help the banks that were failing. If your going to get a house you pay your mortgages