Tuition Increases #7

A college education is the most important things to have for our future. As a young adult we don’t have many opportunities to invest our money so our education is the best investment that we can do for our selves, and our parents and friends are proud of us for getting a college education and making something of our selves. The best of all, our parents don’t have to pay for our bills anymore and not live under their roof! For other people college is just another step in life and they don’t even have to worry about paying for school because daddy can pay for everything! But for some of us school becomes our hope; hope of one day being able to help our parents for working double shifts to pay for their kid’s school education. Not too long ago a college education wasn’t too bad, money wise, but now it’s extremely expensive! Especially for someone like me, when I have to pay for my own education and with tuition fee going sky high! It’s ridiculous and I’m extremely glad with the government stepping up for once and putting a cap on the tuitions! We are paying $1.500 more since 2003 and the number was just rolling up. In a market place that rarely takes someone without an education, it sure is getting harder to get one. It is good to have a cap such as the one being talked about right now so that universities don’t just start spending money in areas that aren’t necessary. Especially with the economy the way it is now. This is not the time to start building better rec centers or give raises. This is the time to take the money that is coming in at the moment and put it to good use in the areas that really need it.

http://blog.contempomag.com/2009/05/04/texas-higher-education-tuition-caps

abortion response

Abortion can be a very tricky subject, people feel passionately about their view towards it, and it makes it difficult for them to see the thoughts behind the different views. I personally don’t agree with abortion, because I think adoption is a better option rather than just killing the kid. However it’s the personal experience that could determine your view on the topic, especially for those that were raped, having to think of that scene for the next nine months, and knowing that a living human been is going to be a living memory of what happened to that person. We all know that the pregnancy rates on teenagers are increasing every day. Kids do make mistakes, they get drunk and high and have no clue what’s going on, and “somehow” they get pregnant and most of them are not able to afford a kid. However if abortion is legal, it will encourage them to just go around and do anything without having to deal with the consequences.

http://www.abortionfacts.com/adoption/adoption.asp

Car-free? not so much #4

To think that we could ever go car free in America scares me, just to talk about it, sure! Why not? Sounds good and everything, but if we were to go out in the streets and ask every American how would they feel about going car free? Unless if you live in New York or within walking distance to your job, or in one of the major cities in America which could actually be able to survive going car free that would be great! But here in Texas! Not so much, I personally use my car every single day, school is 30 minutes away, downtown is almost one hour, my job is about twenty, and I use a car for my job, so therefore I would loose my job if we go car-free, or it would take me a week to do stuff around the ranch. Some people actually do save money by going car free. I’m talking about not having to pay for gas, insurance, car expenses, maintenances and what not! But not every city has the benefit of the subways and everything else been in the one digit mile. As far as I’m concerned here in America we care too much for our values and belongings and a car here is not just used as transportation, but also as luxury! We could never go car-free here; we do not live in China where half of the people ride their bikes to work! Plus we are way too lazy for that. The Government could or should have passed some type of law regarding the number of cars per house and not house members. I sure do agree that we have way too many cars in one house, seriously drive around any neighborhood and almost every house there about 3 or 4 cars parked in the drive way, my house sure is one of them. Would we benefit by going car-free, I don’t think so, but would we benefit by reducing the number of cars by house? Oh yes! I don’t appreciate traffic and the number of cars everywhere.


http://www.eschatonblog.com/
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/carless-in-america/