Topic: Varied Thoughts
PROFITS OVER PEOPLE
Is anyone else paying attention to the money driven society that we live in? Yes life costs money, but our society has become an all out quest for profit. When you would think that certain aspects of American life would be guaranteed to insure the health and well being of the populace, instead it's a rat race to make money -- and everyone else be damned! Capitalism is running wild!
We live in a society where Americans starve to death. We have under-supported food banks in a country that spends trillions on war. Americans, including veterans, go homeless in a country where people spend their last dime on the latest brand name purse or gym shoes. Automobiles can cost as much or more than houses did 30 years ago, and houses cost so much that you need to win the "Little Lotto" in order to pay it off without crushing debt. Again, Capitalism run wild!
When you'd think the synergy between a healthy educated populace and a healthy/strong nation would be recognized, people have to make life decisions to get either. Relative to health, even with the Healthcare Reform Act in place, people still have to make choices between seeing doctors with rising health insurance costs or buying food. That same food where a loaf of bread or a bag of chips for the family can cost more than a gallon of gas! Companies even sell bottled water now! Water was free 40 years ago!
You'd think that the American government would want an educated population to fuel the country and its progress. However, college costs require our potential students to choose between getting an education with crushing debt, or being uneducated with a dim employment outlook. In the current economic climate both choices can leave a person poor! When I went to Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 1984, it cost less than $7000 and all of that was paid by government Pell Grant plus state aid. Today, it costs $27,000 a year to go to the same school! My daughter planned to attend until we found out that our total government aid came to $5000. That is ridiculous! For a degree a person comes out of school over $80,000 in debt. Again, Capitalism run wild!
We've even come to the point where people choose their mates based on money. Profit has become so ingrained in our American collective consciousness that we turn away people who may bring wondrous joy into our lives, simply because a wallet or a bank account isn't "big enough." I had a woman refuse to talk to me because I didn't have rough hands -- meaning that I didn't have a good job. Stop the madness! People are more important than material goods! It's time for a mindset change to -- PEOPLE OVER PROFITS, before it's too late...
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Posted by Steven Whitehurst
at 5:18 PM CDT
Updated: Monday, 5 September 2016 6:34 PM CDT
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Updated: Monday, 5 September 2016 6:34 PM CDT
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