U.S swimmer's body to be handed over to U.S authorities

U.S swimmer Fran Crippen died on Saturday, while performing in a marathon in the Marathon Swimming World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. While on his last leg of the marathon, doctors believe Crippen died from severe fatigue, however Ahmed Ibrahim, the head of the water sports club in Fujairah, says that he suffered a heart attack. Crippen's family back home in Philadelphia were devasted by his unitimely death. Crippen's family has a long history of swimmers.
It's hard to believe that such a talented, and in shape athlete as Fran Crippen could die due to fatigue in a race. It's even harder to believe that nothing was done in order to save him. There should be some sort of safety programs to prevent these sort of disasters.

Showers of Offers for Chile Miners

The 2 month long torture of living underground is starting to show its upside for the Chileans now that they are back up top. Multiple companies including Apple, Sushi xx, Elvis Presley Enterprise and many others are donating their products or already have to the miners. Each family has been given a $10,000 check from Leonardo Farkas, the mining executive. They have also been invited to expense paid trips to Graceland, the Greek Islands, and a Chilean Futbol game. They also will have a book published of them in the near future and lawsuits as well.

I think that its great that the miners are getting recognized for their suffering, especially from the their mining executive. But i think it really nice of companines like Apple, and the Presley Enterprise to go out of their way in order to send their supplies down to the miners to give them something to do.

Issue #1 Spending What We Can Afford

In 2007 Congress passed a pay as you go budgeting measure. This is called Paygo, allows spending reduction elswhere so that tax cuts and the fluxuation of entitlement spending will not offset the budget. Supportives approve of paygo because it eliminates wasteful spending and the collection of unpaid taxes. It also allows Congress to be able to raise enough funds to pay for the latest initiatives, and not go deeper into debt. Anti-supporters believe that paygo will only cause more tax increases, which will hurt America as a whole.
I think that using the paygo method is a good idea because it reduces the amount of wasteful spending of money. I do think though that Congress needs to figure out more serious options that will help get the U.S. out of debt. The U.S. is so far in debt that measures such as Paygo won't even put a dent in the money that the U.S. owes. One major supporter of the Paygo program is President Barack Obama, who put the budget rules in place.
Other different budget issues-
Issue #2 Spending what we can afford
Issue #3 Social Insecurity