Russia doesn't get their news, suicides in India, Obama passes new student loan bill

On Monday in Moscow, Russia, two suicide bombings struck two major subway stations that killed about 39 people and left several people injured. According to the New York Times, the government-run news channel was unresponsive. Channel 1, a main government station, reported briefly on the attacks at 8:30 a.m., a half-hour after the first blast, but did not mention them again until noon, because "there was no new information," according to a spokeswoman for the channel. She said that updates were unnecessary. Seeking information, people turned in droves to the radio and the Internet, which are largely uncensored. All I have to say about this story is wow. Here they have one of the biggest terrorist attacks since 2004 and the government decides not to report the news about this major attack. How is there nothing to update? 39 people are dead and several more are injured, people need to know about this. This is very irresponsible governance and also very irresponsible journalism. I am appalled that this happened. This is why no one trusts the journalists, because they think most of them are watchdogs. It pisses me off that the government has to control the news. Let the journalists do their jobs and the government officials do there's.
According to the New York Times in India, over 200 people have committed suicide over the battle to carve out India's 29th state. Politically motivated suicides has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. According to government statistics, bankruptcy or poverty provoke fewer than five percent of Indian suicides. A family conflict, a broken love affair or an illness is a more likely for people to commit suicide. The number of ideologically motivated suicides in India doubled between 2006 and 2008, the last year in which statistics were available, according to the government. First off, that's just messed up that people would commit suicide because of the government. The Indian government must be doing some awfully bad things for people to take their own lives. This is a worrisome statistic for the Indian government. They have to be more aware of what they are doing in order to prevent these succumbs to happen.
According to the New York Times, President Barrack Obama signed a legislation yesterday to expand college access for millions of young Americans by revamping the federal student loan program. The new law will eliminate fees paid to private banks to act as intermediaries in providing loans to college students and use much of the nearly $68 billion in savings over 11 years to expand Pell grants and make it easier for students to repay outstanding loans after graduating. The law will increase Pell grants along with inflation in the next few years, which should raise the maximum grant to $5,975 from $5,550 by 2017 according to the White House, and it will also provide 820,000 more grants by 2020. In Obama's State of Union address on January 27th, he said about affordability to go to college: "To make college more affordable, this bill will finally end the unwarranted taxpayer subsidies that go to banks for student loans. Instead, let's take that money and give families a $10,000 tax credit for four years of college and increase Pell Grants. And let's tell another one million students that when they graduate, they will be required to pay only 10 percent of their income on student loans, and all of their debt will be forgiven after 20 years –- and forgiven after 10 years if they choose a career in public service, because in the United States of America, no one should go broke because they chose to go to college." This is the start of cutting costs to student loan debts. This may not solve problems of student debt today, but it is a start. I think the enormous college debts is one of the biggest issues in America other than health care and high unemployment rates. People who are over $20,000 in college debt from student loans ruins their potential to become world leaders someday because they have to focus more of their time paying off their debts rather than worry about taking care of others. It's even harder to pay off student loans if there are no jobs out there. Passing the health care reform bill and this student loan bill are two major accomplishments that Obama should be extremely pleased about. However, he and Congress still have a lot of work to do to gain the trust of the American people. This is a good start.