Family
Have you ever looked back on your families ancestry, not the distant ones, but the ones who you may have just missed by a lifetime? Most people will come across someone and possibly many more relatives who lived in poverty - or very close. However, at the same time they were working incredibly hard at their job in order to give his/her family the essential needs.
Much of the Middle Class look down on those who are poor and rather unfortunate. However, they neglect the fact that their own family was also in that exact same situation, but not always directly the person who looks at others with disdain.
Due to our [Americans] current society, those who are at the bottom cannot propel themselves anywhere above the lower-middle class, no matter how hard they work. This also holds true in the past, possibly even more so. Many families moved here from poorer nations, mine from Norway - which at the time wasn't as well off as they're now. My great grandparents moved here in hopes of allowing their children a better life and possibly improving their own. Their daughter, my Grandma, was raised rather poor and when she became an adult - she was still rather poor. She raised 7 children and worked at a food plant. Her son, my father, got a job working in a car part manufacturing company. He has a lot of contempt for his job, but every weekday he goes for ten hours and a few hours on a the weekend. I doubt that anyone in the line of people leading from me to my great grandparents ever liked the job they had or got their dream job. None of the people listed were able to go to college due to lack of funds and / or lack of proper public education.
Why is it then, that I am allowed to go to college and pursue my dream of becoming a Video Game Programmer and possibly a Politician? I don't believe that it's fair that my Parents, Grandparents, and Great Grandparents all made these sacrifices for me along with my cousins, sisters, nieces and nephews to be born with everything we needed to be capable of higher level success.
After all of this, how can anyone allow other families to repeat this exact same process in which whole lives are spent doing something they hate with a passion? I do not understand how anyone can just take their education after their forefathers and foremothers have suffered dearly to achieve what you're allowed to do today and not change the country for the better.
Humanity has hit a new low, they're allowing the exact problems to repeat themselves over and over again because of their own greed. They rarely stop to think about how poverty has affected them and the sacrifices people before them made in order for them to be where they are. The US will continue to allow people to spend their lives doing something they don't like for their whole life - unless we do something about it.
Much of the Middle Class look down on those who are poor and rather unfortunate. However, they neglect the fact that their own family was also in that exact same situation, but not always directly the person who looks at others with disdain.
Due to our [Americans] current society, those who are at the bottom cannot propel themselves anywhere above the lower-middle class, no matter how hard they work. This also holds true in the past, possibly even more so. Many families moved here from poorer nations, mine from Norway - which at the time wasn't as well off as they're now. My great grandparents moved here in hopes of allowing their children a better life and possibly improving their own. Their daughter, my Grandma, was raised rather poor and when she became an adult - she was still rather poor. She raised 7 children and worked at a food plant. Her son, my father, got a job working in a car part manufacturing company. He has a lot of contempt for his job, but every weekday he goes for ten hours and a few hours on a the weekend. I doubt that anyone in the line of people leading from me to my great grandparents ever liked the job they had or got their dream job. None of the people listed were able to go to college due to lack of funds and / or lack of proper public education.
Why is it then, that I am allowed to go to college and pursue my dream of becoming a Video Game Programmer and possibly a Politician? I don't believe that it's fair that my Parents, Grandparents, and Great Grandparents all made these sacrifices for me along with my cousins, sisters, nieces and nephews to be born with everything we needed to be capable of higher level success.
After all of this, how can anyone allow other families to repeat this exact same process in which whole lives are spent doing something they hate with a passion? I do not understand how anyone can just take their education after their forefathers and foremothers have suffered dearly to achieve what you're allowed to do today and not change the country for the better.
Humanity has hit a new low, they're allowing the exact problems to repeat themselves over and over again because of their own greed. They rarely stop to think about how poverty has affected them and the sacrifices people before them made in order for them to be where they are. The US will continue to allow people to spend their lives doing something they don't like for their whole life - unless we do something about it.
posted by D_Bokk at 8:56 PM
5 Comments:
And what exactly do you suggest we do? You have offered no solutions, only problems.
Socialism in America is a rather unlikely idea at this point in time, so I will refrain from offering that solution.
However, to start we could stop voting for Democrats and Republicans because other than moral-related topics, they're exactly the same party. Voting for the green party, or a social democrat wont result in them winning, but force Democrats to adopt new ideas to keep their position as a party of power.
Another solution is to inform people of the problems, even if it makes you sound like a negative Nancy. Ignorance allows all of these problems to occur.
In this lifetime, success in America is survival. It's a shark pool out there. It's the Capitalist way, if you don't work your ass off to keep your head above water, you will drown. This is why credit card debt or being layed off of a job can turn somebody homeless. It's redic. America needs to help it's people more. Major cooperations make more money than a family living below the poverty line have no hope to make before retirement. The American Dream is to allow a better life for your children. That's the way of life right now.
Perhaps we should turn socialist like germany, where they have such a cushy welfare system that their economy is falling apart?
Welfare states are not worker's states, more of a anti-workers state. Welfare is virtually free money from the government for not working.
Please refrain from calling Germany Socialist, as they are no where near socialism.
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