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    Home / College Guide / Where Do We Go From Here?
     Posted on Friday, April 03 @ 00:00:08 PDT
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    There doesn’t appear to be much optimism emanating from the average American citizen at this juncture. It’s the beginning of April and unemployment levels hit another record high–around 6.6 million, up from 3.3 million claims just the week prior. Thanks to Bernie Sanders, most will receive full benefits for up to four months, but the economic landscape is in dire shape for the future. The cruel, rapacious healthcare system that we have in this country is not set up to handle a situation like this, and private companies are still trying to find ways to profit off of this crisis. Around 45,000 people die every year in this country due to lack of basic health coverage, a number that is zero in every other developed nation. We spend twice as much on healthcare yet get way worse results. Student loan debt is at a record $1.6 trillion, second only to mortgage debt, but higher than both credit card and auto loan debt. Minimum wage at $7.25 is far from a livable wage, as was originally intended when it was implemented in 1938. There are people working full-time jobs living in their cars because wages are so low, including postal workers. People can’t mathematically get ahead anymore.

    The economic system has been bogged down by these statistics. There are more millionaires in this country than ever before, but there are also more homeless people and those living in poverty than ever before–in the richest and most prosperous nation in the world. As more and more jobs are being outsourced, more and more money is fuelling the military industrial complex. We spend more money on the military than the next ten countries combined, and most of them are our allies. The $80 billion annual increase package is enough to fund college tuition for a year. This is not a system that was prepared for a global pandemic of this magnitude. The country is now facing a cruel paradox of staying home safe and worrying about keeping food on the table and a roof over their heads, or risk going back to work and potentially catching a dangerous disease that we don’t know much about. Canada is providing its citizens with up to $2,000 a month until this blows over, and countries like Norway and Denmark are providing up to 90 percent of wages during the crisis. But in America the goal always seems to be to give hundreds of billions of dollars to the corporations and top one percent, and divide the pennies amongst the rest of the population.

    A one-time taxed payment of $1,200 a month to those making less than $75,000 a year, although many restrictions apply. Families can get up to $500 per child, but not for pregnant mothers, because republicans only seem to count fetuses as human beings whenever the abortion argument comes up. This is disgraceful, insulting, immoral, and shows that the corporate politicians aren’t even trying to act like they care about their constituents anymore, only their donors. It also doesn’t help that we have a conspiratorial, science-denying pathological liar in charge who still only cares about his image and “ratings.” He still has yet to give any kind of condolences to the many lives already lost due to his unprecedented level of incompetence, and is now trying to frame the narrative to make people think that only losing less than 200,000 lives is a great accomplishment on his part. His supporters may be that dumb, but most people aren’t. But they are, unfortunately, dumb enough to blindly put their support behind someone with obvious cognitive decline, a credible sexual assault allegation (that many probably don’t know about because the corporate media refuses to cover it), and many other skeletons that are no longer in his closet over a guy who wants to ameliorate all of the aformentioned problems with detailed solutions.

    As of right now it seems like America is in for some truly dark times. I hope I’m wrong.

     
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