We all deserve to climb the socioeconomic ladder without falling down from bureaucratic pressures. In order for this to happen more often and more obviously, the government needs to play a larger role in financing education. Loans make students' lives miserable. Who's to say that all students can finish college, get a lucrative job, and pay off all loans within a predetermined time frame? The huge discrepancies in educational advantages are more evident in the lifestyles of the suburbs and the inner cities. Inner-city children need to be given an incentive if the drug trade, the wailing presence of prostitution, and gun violence are to be curbed. That incentive is money that the government has stockpiles of yet continues to allocate the most amount to defense spending. The federal government needs to invest in its own people in order to live up to what are now the hypocritically stated words: No Child Left Behind. Americans are ready for a better future too. They are fed up with the failed policies and lies of the Bush administration, want more financing for education that might catalyze the resolution of public health issues, like AIDS and cancer. Historically speaking, whenever Republicans took charge of the White House, the whole world became a giant mess. That is most certainly an understatement of the past eight years. However, when Democrats win the executive branch, the country and the world are much more peaceful places in which to live. The Clinton presidency was certainly that way. I hate politics, but I figured that I would bring my point home about ensuring better futures using politics as my example.
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Don't you think it's time to have a national public transportation system? Why can't we be like Europe, where trains take up many of the geographic grids. People living in countries other than the United States do not tend to spend half their lives driving on the freeway. This is the most powerful country on Earth and should have foreseen skyrocketing gas prices characterizing the early 21st century. One would think that all these natural disasters would make us care enough to demand, in unison, that change in transportation be made immediately.