Thoughts To Ponder....

By: OneTuffChick...


I find it mocking that most people willingly agree that college is not for everyone, but rarely does a discussion take place that really answers the question, “What does the typical American public high school experience really prepare a student to do after graduation other than get a minimum wage job that really does not enable them to live independently or adequately take care of their basic needs?”. I cringe at how I think some people would answer the question, “Does a couple, in which both parties work full-time minimum wage jobs, have a right to have children when they have no health insurance?” I am alarmed when I ask myself, “As each country’s economy becomes more globalized, what will happen to employees, even those with academic credentials or strong skill-sets, in industrialized countries whose jobs are increasingly outsourced to companies in countries that permit them to pay their employees next to nothing?”.

I do not have the answers to my questions, but I fear what will happen if there is no discussion of these and related issues. I believe it is easy to lose perspective on basic human needs under the guise of trying to sift the deserving poor out from among the undeserving and too little political will to address the structural social inequities that, I believe, will increasingly stress our current systems to the point of eventual exhaustion and collapse.