http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/us/politics/government-reopens.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1382021207-V0CGR2HS+ScpqJ3LJ9Qrgg
This news of the New York Times talks about the reopening of the American Government after two weeks of a shutdown that paralyzed almost all of the Administrative Services and caused serious consequences to the American economy.
This
shutdown was made because of the new law that Obama wanted to start, which
allows all the citizens to have Social Security. The opposition, the Tea Party,
didn’t want to carry out this new law, so they didn’t help funding it and Obama
closed the Administration for lack of funds.
After
these two weeks of shutdown, the Tea Party and the president came to an
agreement that gives Barack Obama until the 7th
February to raise the debt ceiling (the amount of money that a country is able
to owe).
Thanks
to this, the Government can reopen and all the public places and Administrative
Services are starting to work again.
OPINION
About
this matter, we think that what Obama did is such a risk, but it’s what he had
to do. As himself said about the Tea Party, “I know it's strange that a party
puts the fact of maintaining the citizens uninsured as a centerpiece of his
agenda, but apparently it is.”, so if the only way of coming to an agreement
was shutting down the Government, we think it’s well done.
However,
both parties should make sure this will never happen again since it messed up
the normal operation of the society and made people and the Government itself
lose a lot of money.