Friday, May 22, 2009

What About Scholarships

I mentioned not too long ago that with all the money that we are spending to save the economy that we were ignoring works such as infristucture and other pordgects to beter the contry as a whole. I still hold to that.
One of the reasons we are pouring so much money into Wallstreet is to get the credit flowing again and its not we have pour as last I checked almost 1 trilion dollors in and the credit still is follwing yet. That credit or lack there of is it's killing our biggest long term investments and that is bright collage educated young people who can meet the growing demand for highly educated profetionals so that we can stop out sorsing so many jobs for lack of the workers to fill the gap not that wages aren't playing a role. We have so many students who can't afford to go the collage for lack of funds since in the present economy you have to have near perfect credit to get a lone so how about directly moving those credit scores need for lones by giving grants and low intrest goverment lones to cover the tuision needs of those who will in the end make or break our contry's long term economical goals and that is technology like clean coal, cars that can out preform our over seas compition, in true advaces in alternative fuels and power plants. All of this takes well schooled and highly educated students the work force of tomarow to realy make this contry again the world leader in every major areas of industry and not compete on lower wages but on supior product and inovation alone so that out sorsing becomes a thing that is not only unesisary but that other country's can't keep up when it comes to inovation.
The last I check our school prefomance was not even in the top 20 nations in the world highschool through K. Why not education on the most basic level resiving more of that aid because who will go on to higher education if they are already behind when the get there in the first place. My mother is a teacher and they have to fight every year just to get the most basic needs for the schools needs covered and the school she teaches at is in a town that is well off and has a higher tax flow to work with. If we are all honest and my mother has made this clear to me that the no student left behind program did not push schools but criple them. Money will help with budgets but we need that money also put into vouchers and resurch into how to make our schools preform at a higher level than they presently are.
A good friend who is a grad student at LSU just informed me that they were slashing the schools budget. That would lead not only to a lower level of resourse avalible to students but a huge loss in high paying jobs that employ some of our countries best and britest commited to turning out the next crop to fill their shoes one day. How can we alow so many jobs to be lost when we are trying to creat them. Money to suport schools such as LSU a state school but still would not create new jobs but save good jobs that already agsist in the first place and that are there to meet the needs that is the point of this whole post in the first place.
So please while we save Wallstreet lets not bankrupt the needs of our nation in the prosses.

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