This economy is rough.
I know many parents who are being laid off because of budget cuts. And I can't help but feel awkward when they ask what I am to do with my summer. I mean after all in their eyes I'm nothing but a kid looking for a summer job.. and they're right! I'm looking for a job that will give me money and then when school starts up again I'll be gone. I am neither supporting myself nor my family, so what right do I have, to search for a job?
Even as I go about my normal life I see adults working in the places where I would normally seen teens or college students work. ie, Target, Walgreen, Trader Joes, and I feel like they are very over-qualified for those jobs.
But what is the downfall of the economy? Why are we losing money left and right suddenly? Some people blame Bush for the war and say that it costs tons of money to keep our soldiers in Iraq, and maybe they're right, but one person can't possibly be blamed for the outcome of a country! Or can they?
What about us as citizens; can we do anything about it? If we're in a money crisis, that means there's not enough money to go around.. so what do we do? We hoard it of course! If there's not enough for other people that means that there is not enough for us any more so we should hold on to it and never let go right? WRONG, I think that we only had to the crisis! During this time we should be spending our money in order to get our system running properly again. So that rather than being a pack rat with our money we should be sharing it with everyone, and if the whole country did that we surely would not be in a economic crisis any more. Especially with our billionaires out there. They should participate and not guard their money so closely, instead they ought to help out the world a bit, it's not as if, if they lose a million they'll be paupers, but that million could really help out the rest of us lower and middle class people.
What do you think?
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