Spending now, investing in future will help reduce deficit
By Emily Shipp | Aug. 12, 2011Debt ceiling crisis masks real issues of unemployment
Debt ceiling crisis masks real issues of unemployment
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Global spending cuts should not extend to essential creative sector We are all aware of the United States’ deficit and the expanding trend of deficits in other countries around the world, particularly those within the European Union. Proposed measures to solve these fiscal pitfalls across the globe speak volumes about national priorities.
When I heard a self-taught child musician sold out Madison Square Garden, I figured it was important to research the Justin Bieber phenomenon in order to keep up with the times. If he is on a wildly popular world tour, then he must be outstandingly talented or cute — or maybe he’s just able to write catchy, perfectly arranged melodies. I discovered these assumptions were mostly true, and it is impressive that he taught himself how to play drums, guitar, trumpet and piano. But I was shamed when I discovered Bieber is influencing the masses with messages that are nothing short of an insult to science and general social progress.
Conservative ideology usually pushes my buttons due to its absurdly outdated notion of how economics work with politics, but I have awoken every beautiful American morning hoping and believing that one day I’ll be able to finally witness a glimmer of reason in the standpoints or political figures of the Republican Party. Today, I gave up.
I always will be a personal advocate for technology as a mechanism for the betterment of the global community. But what are the drawbacks?
The older I grow, the more cynical I become. When it comes to politics, the older I grow, the more I want to simultaneously laugh, cry, clap, faint, scream and/or stick sharp pins into my eyes. There are times when I am listening to the speeches of the people who make major and incredibly vital decisions about the future of our nation, and I have to stop practically dead in time, press pause and rewind the YouTube video just to make sure I heard that outrageous stream of words correctly. There are times when I am reading the newspaper while waiting in line for coffee and am compelled — by my own need to reassure my sanity — to tap the person in front of me and ask them to tell me if what I’m reading makes any logical sense in the English language, or if I really am slowly spiraling into an abyss of non-reason.
I was sent to college to “get smart.”This is hilarious for multiple reasons. Here I am, an undergraduate third-year student attending an American college and studying English and film. It’s too bad this translates in the socioeconomic world to mean I may as well be hurling thousands of dollars into a big black hole in the center of the universe to be sucked in, brutally demolished and lost for eternity — a black hole that happens to demand interest.
Today, I am hungover. I feel there is no shame in admitting this to the world, though to some the blatant hangover look — puffy eyes and a scratchy throat paired with slumping miserably over a cheap breakfast at Waffle House — is less than attractive. So now, I'm slowly dying and sincerely trying to remember the point in the night when a horse kicked me in the face (there is no other explanation for such a foul headache.)
It's almost that time again, folks. New Year's is less than a month away. Those who follow the Gregorian calendar are preparing to recognize another revolution around the sun and make personal promises. But globally, what resolutions are really crucial this coming year? Though in reality, Congress is doomed to be gridlocked thanks to the Republican victory in midterm elections, if I could play the nondenominational angel on the shoulders of politicians, they might hear suggestions like these: