NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF'S ARUGMENT
TOULMIN ORGANIZER
CLAIM:
A economic downturn isn’t uniformly bad and might even be good for you in several ways.
REBUTTAL:
Unless people are losing their homes, jobs and basically their lives. It is extremely hard to look at the good results when so many of the results are bad and harm us and the economy. Divorce rates spike in recessions. Credit evaporates, lives are upended, and for retirees counting on selling stocks to survive, a bear market is a catastrophe.
WARRANT:
Since events have good and bad results, the US having a economic downturn will produce good results as well as bad ones.
BACKING:
Because poor people are finding homes, its causing people to save their money, death rates generally drop, fewer accidents occur, less pollution in the air, and people become happier because once they get their basic needs covered they save their money.
DATA:
A recession could save your life. A bear market might benefit you. Falling housing prices can help the poor. Income does not have much to do with happiness.
The author in this periodical brings up the idea that a economic downturn is not uniformly bad and might even be good for you in several ways. In the periodical he says that events have good and bad results, so the US will see some good come out of all of the bad. In order to back up his claim and warrant he uses examples and situations. He describes that if a economic downturn occurs then poor will find homes, people would save their money more, death rates drop, there are fewer accidents, less pollution, and people can be generally happier. Even with all the good you have bad like people losing homes, divorce rates spike, and credit evaporates. Overall it is going to be bad but even through all the bad there will be good that can help us get through the economic downturn.
This picture shows a silver lining, because even with all the bad the author chooses to look a the good no matter how small it may seem.MY ARGUMENT
TOULMIN ORGANIZERCLAIM:
Even with all of the good, the bad outweighs it and people will come out more negative than positive.
WARRANT:
Even though there are good and bad results, there will be far less good results than bad and people we be to physically, mentally, and emotionally troubled to see any of the good results.
BACKING:
Many people are losing their homes, and home for-closure rates are rising. It seems more and more that the rich are getting richer and getting tax breaks while the middle and lower class are not getting anything be their homes taken. Divorce rates are rising and many people's credit is evaporating. The bear market can be a complete failure if you use it in retirement also.
DATA:
Economic downturns hurt not only every person's pockets, but they hurt they physically, emotionally, and mentally. Many people are losing their homes and for-closure rates are rising, rich are getting richer and poor getting poorer, and people's relationships are diminishing.
In my argument I choose to go against Mr. Kristof's argument that an economic downturn is not always bad. Even with all the good things happining, the bad results still outweigh the good, and more negativity comes out. People will be worn out physically, mentally and emotionally because of all the struggles that they have to go through each and every day. With people losing homes, rich getting richer and poor getting poorer, divorce rate rising, and credit evaporating it is hard to see how anything good could possible come out of an economic downturn. The fact is, it hurts everyone and there is a grim future ahead of us if we finally fall into a economic downturn.
