I grew up rather poor and never had the chance to go to college. It is something that I never regretted and I did study years later through a correspondence course for an Associates Degree. College also isn't for everyone. Many successful people have done amazing things without a college degree. However, in today's world it seems that a college degree is much more important than it was when I was a young man.
It was this morning that I saw something on Facebook that just amazed me. It seemed so wrong that I just wanted to scream at the top of my lungs that our government is so wrong. Our government wastes money on so many things and our representatives and senators get so many perks and benefits that they do not deserve.
On Facebook I read that our government could make college tuition at American public universities free for 62.6 billion dollars. At the bottom of the photo I read that we will spend 85.4 billion dollars in Afghanistan in fiscal year 2015.
It seems so wrong to me that our government feels a war in a far off land in a country that doesn't care about the USA is more important than the education of our young people. The people going to college today will be our future leaders, opening new businesses, and running the country. There is no doubt in my mind that America has it's priorities wrong, very very wrong.
There is little that we can do except to vote for people who feel education is more important than war.
Copyright Larry W. Fish 2014
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