Some Things Never "Change"

In June of this year, I along with a million other students will be graduating from college wondering what good is my degree if I cannot find a job. Barak Obama’s theme of change landed him a job in the oval office. But this administrations theme of change will not penetrate through the economic beast we are currently battling.

Reconstruction

The Bush administration decided to begin the corporate bailouts and the Obama administration is not changing the course. I think, enough with the bailouts… let the economy fall to pieces. If we genuinely want the kind of change that will create the strongest America, then some things must be destroyed in the process.

Economic myths, or truths

We have all heard the phrase “the rich get richer”, I believe this to be true. If it wasn’t, people would stop saying it. This phrase represents American financial culture and since money is a limited resource, it implies that the poor don’t get richer; they get poorer.

The American rags to riches dream is ultimately what we would love our children to believe in, but who can believe in something that is as rare as a waterproof toaster.

From Miley Cyrus (daughter of a country music star, and a television and music teen icon in her own right) to Percy Miller Junior (son of a rap mogul, and a basketball scholarship recipient at USC), children of rich people walk on a road that the disappearing middle class, or anyone financially less privileged cannot afford to compete with.

If your parents can’t afford to send you to private school, then they probably can’t afford to move you into a neighborhood with decent public schools either. And if they worked enough hours to do this then they would never see you and you would be raising yourself and end up resenting their hard work, and rejecting the “work ethic” that afforded you a better opportunity.

Human greed

Human greed is why Texas, California and other states are part of the U.S. and not Mexico. Human greed is what led to American slavery. Human greed is the catalyst for the genocide of the Native Americans, and the author of the term “manifest destiny”. Human greed is why our economy is screwed up. You can “change” political policy, but that won’t change the greedy human mentality that is embedded and celebrated in the foundation of this country.