Friday, November 18, 2016

Government should help!

In my opinion I agree that the government should be helping or paying completely for our college education. As did my classmates blog explained. Every single year tuition is increasing not only for four year universities but also community colleges. People think that by choosing community colleges or state colleges they are able to pay less but it's almost just as expensive as a four year university. I know when I graduated I literally had no money. I had to rely on my parents and luckily they were there to support me or I'd be up to my ears in student loans. We're gonna in debt before we even pay and start to pay for school.
 For a student like me that's super scary to think about. With tuition being so high is discourages young adults to not even want to go to school at all because they are scared they are gonna be broke before they even get a real world job. I know the government already does so much but by helping students pay for college it would offer so many more opportunities for young adults. The audience this reaches out to the most would definitely be students like me and many others. Her argument is very clear and to the point. I'm sure I am not the only one who agrees either.

Friday, November 4, 2016

Elections on the Weekend



The topic I am going to choose to make my argument will be whether or not that we should move elections to the weekend or to even make it a national holiday. In my opinion we should make them on the weekends because not everybody is available during the week to actually cast their vote. Another big reason as to why it should be moved is because it almost is biased towards lower income people and higher income people.

People have many obligations during the week whether it’s their job or they are taking care of their kids. I mean let’s face it’s nearly impossible to get things done during the week. I’m a full time student, with no job and I’m one of the busiest people I know. During the weekends though people seem to be less busy and have time to actually do things that they aren’t able to during the week. With having elections on the weekday people aren’t able to go and cast their votes. Everyone’s vote is supposed to matter but with having it on a weekday not everyone’s vote matter. The government could also make it a holiday so that way everyone is obligated to go vote because they have the day off. Voting is already decreasing each election so how about making it easier to actually go cast a vote and make it matter.

In my opinion it is also discriminating to the lower income people. Having it on the weekday is usually when everyone is working so you get little to nothing done outside of work. For the people who don’t make as much they can’t afford to take off work because they need every last penny or they risk the loss of their jobs. But for the people that aren’t struggling can do whatever they want and not have it affect anything in their lives because they can afford it. Again everyone’s vote is supposed to matter but it’s honestly looking like the people who make more money are the only votes that matter.