The World

I've always kept up with the news, but I feel like nobody wants to read the news with such depressing headlines. All the headlines read, "Recession." Most of us as teenagers have no idea the extent that our economy has failed and may never fully realize it. Sometimes I feel like I live in another world and we just hear news from this greater world out there. It's hard to relate myself to all these people in our government who seem to only care about themselves or the greedy CEO's of companies who only want more and more money. It's even hard for me to understand the stock market and how our entire financial system even works. When did it become so complicated? Not only is our headlines full of recession but what about the Michael Phelps case. I am very angry about it. It makes me so mad that they suspended him from swimming for three months for a picture of smoking a bong with marijuana. Please. It isn't like he was doing performance enhancing drugs. He is even a great person, who helps out with many youth programs. Then, of course, let's not forget that Kellogg has now dropped his sponsorship because "they feel he doesn't present the image they want to portray." Well to me, I say he doesn't even need Kellogg. I think Michael Phelps is an American hero and a great swimmer and he has made many differences in this world and to me that is all that matters and should matter to everyone else.