I almost can't take it.

I want you to imagine that you've been in a coma for the past four years. You've just woken up. Now let me bring you up to speed. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are still going on and getting worse. The economy is circling the drain. And some oil company called BP has decided to up the ante when it comes to destroying the environment, I guess they didn't think it was happening fast enough. My guess is they're wanting the ice caps to melt faster so they can go drill for oil where they used to be. Now arguments can be made for the two wars, defending freedom and all that but as for the other two situations I can see only one explanation for their cause. Greed.
It's all about the quest for those little slips of paper that we call dollars.
Now don't get me wrong, I like spending money as much as the next person but I think it's time we got everyone together and said that the current system of capitalism isn't quite working out as we thought it would. Now before you start drawing Hitler mustaches on me (which makes perfect sense because when I think Hitler, oh yeah, my first thought is "communism". Forget the SS and the Holocaust, it's all about the economy) let me have a chance to explain myself.
I believe in socialism. And I'm not talking about the kind of socialism that rounds up poets and sends them off to Siberia (which was actually communist, not socialist) but the kind of socialism that America itself has promised us. The promises of a healthy life, good education, and a fair chance to make a comfortable living for me and my family. Damn it, society is falling apart just listening to me isn't it? Anyway, here are my points. Government funded health care, and government funded colleges. Private colleges can do what they want, no one wants to be associated with those pricks anyway. Now health care has already been worked on, we'll just have to see how that works out. So I'll go with the education.
My entire life all I've heard is that education is the most important thing that you can have. Well then, I find it strange that every year college tuition keeps going up. According to a December 3, 2008 article in the New York Times, college tuition has gone up 439% from 1982 to 2007. As accredited to a biennial report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. (Here's a link for the article ttp://tinyurl.com/6ygd9q ) Now, this article speculates that soon higher education will be out of reach for most American families. Except for the really rich ones. So, the poor families will do all the manual labor like digging ditches while the rich ones will be bankers. But don't worry, because I hear that you can become rich also, you know, as long as you can get a baccalaureate degree in business which if you graduated in 2008 from a 4-year public school cost you about $20,000 in student debt not counting late fees. Gotta love the American dream.
So you see, those Wall Street guys holding that golden carrot in front of you saying "You can be just like me," realize that yes, it is possible. But every year the amount of people being able to afford it decreases. Leaving more money for them to gobble up. This leaves the higher classes in with a better education and the lower classes stuck in low-skill level jobs with little pay with no way to escape the situation. I don't know about you but that sounds like pre-revolution France, not America.
All I'm saying is that the government should pay for our college. England, Italy, France, Germany, and every other westernized nation does it. But they're evil according to FOX News. And I can see where they're coming from, because when I think evil, I totally think equal education and good qualifications for job searching. Brrr, just saying that sent a chill through my soul and caused Satan to walk into my living room. The point is everyone says but you can't have the government pay for education that's socialism. Yes, yes it is. The real question is. What is bad about that? Some would say that capitalism is God's way of doing things, that's funny Jesus said to give up your money. Oh, well, I don't want to pay more taxes. Ok, yes, you'll have to pay taxes. But what people forget is that in the 1950s (one of the biggest economical growth periods in the country) people were paying a 90% tax rate. In fact taxes are at some of their lowest points in history and look where we are. Just think of your taxes as an account to pay for the hospital and for college.
What it comes down to is greed. People don't like the idea of government funded health care and education because they'd have to give their money over to the nondeservers. They'd have to give away their precious green paper. It all comes down to greed. There's no reason for anyone to not want everyone to be educated other than not wanting to give others money. That equals greed. That makes them a greedy person. And that's the short version of it. And frankly, it's getting hard for me to deal with the greed anymore. I'm thinking as soon as I get the chance I'm moving to Antarctica. Because then I don't have to worry about money, I can just trade everything for penguin crap.