How to Fix Our Problems With Education, Spending, and the Deficit
I have not made many political posts on live journal this year and it is 2012, a Presidential Election year. There are some issues that the politicians of both major political parties have dropped the ball on and it will negatively impact my generation, "The Millenials".
The $16 trillion deficit is a huge problem my generation will face. The politicians of both parties are being selfish by leasing our future to buy themselves votes from parasites who don't want to work. These politicians need to drastically cut spending for government programs that aren't helping people and have no return on their money. Someone needs to lock Republicans and Democrats in a room until they can agree on a way to balance the budget and reduce the national debt. Maybe play Nickelback on full blast inside the room to encourage them to finish faster.
Education is a huge problem as well. Our schools are falling apart and other countries that we thought were "third world" are surpassing us in educational rankings. That isn't the only problem. The way that we are targeting our higher education spending is poor because there is no targeting. We are giving student loans and grants to people to be Sociology or "Womyn's Studies" majors. These people are acquiring $200,000 in debt and they can't get a decent job to pay back their student loans. The ones that can't get jobs become "Occupy bums".
There are 3 million jobs that are unfilled. The problem with that is that we don't have enough people with the training to take those jobs because they are voc tech jobs like plumbers, electricians, and computer technicians. If we targeted educational spending into vocational tech schools and encouraged people to go to those schools who were interested in those topics as opposed to shuffling everyone into colleges where they are brainwashed into joining the Occupy movement by leftist professors, we would have 3 million less unemployed people out there. President Obama and Former President Clinton mentioned a lot about increasing educational spending, which sounds great on the surface, but these people are ignoring the fact that we have more educated people than before but there aren't jobs available for "Womyn's Studies" majors that pay well. Its stupid to borrow more money from China and have these young people go into debt to study majors that are not in demand, and then end up living in their childhood bedroom because they can't find a decent job with a living wage. We need to target our educational spending into majors like business, math, or anything involving science, technology, or computers, along with voc tech careers like plumbing and electricians so that these young people can have well-paying jobs and we can get our economy back on track.
The $16 trillion deficit is a huge problem my generation will face. The politicians of both parties are being selfish by leasing our future to buy themselves votes from parasites who don't want to work. These politicians need to drastically cut spending for government programs that aren't helping people and have no return on their money. Someone needs to lock Republicans and Democrats in a room until they can agree on a way to balance the budget and reduce the national debt. Maybe play Nickelback on full blast inside the room to encourage them to finish faster.
Education is a huge problem as well. Our schools are falling apart and other countries that we thought were "third world" are surpassing us in educational rankings. That isn't the only problem. The way that we are targeting our higher education spending is poor because there is no targeting. We are giving student loans and grants to people to be Sociology or "Womyn's Studies" majors. These people are acquiring $200,000 in debt and they can't get a decent job to pay back their student loans. The ones that can't get jobs become "Occupy bums".
There are 3 million jobs that are unfilled. The problem with that is that we don't have enough people with the training to take those jobs because they are voc tech jobs like plumbers, electricians, and computer technicians. If we targeted educational spending into vocational tech schools and encouraged people to go to those schools who were interested in those topics as opposed to shuffling everyone into colleges where they are brainwashed into joining the Occupy movement by leftist professors, we would have 3 million less unemployed people out there. President Obama and Former President Clinton mentioned a lot about increasing educational spending, which sounds great on the surface, but these people are ignoring the fact that we have more educated people than before but there aren't jobs available for "Womyn's Studies" majors that pay well. Its stupid to borrow more money from China and have these young people go into debt to study majors that are not in demand, and then end up living in their childhood bedroom because they can't find a decent job with a living wage. We need to target our educational spending into majors like business, math, or anything involving science, technology, or computers, along with voc tech careers like plumbing and electricians so that these young people can have well-paying jobs and we can get our economy back on track.