Closing Schools, Cutting Education----

I rarely make political posts on the Questioning Way Blog, and I rarely have guest writers. Today I'm doing both.  My young friend, Ambrosia, is a 20 year old college student who is livid about the fact that many in this country have lately become intent on targeting education for budget cuts.  Ambrosia and I are both astounded that Federal and local governments in the U.S. appear prepared to further impair an educational system that is already a flaming piece of shit. (as we all are quite aware)  Starve the young a decent chance at education to save a few bucks?  What kind of reasoning is that? Anyone who wouldn't be wiling to pay a few more taxes in order to give the young a decent education ought to wake up and fly right.  We all should be ashamed.  I'm sure you all will find Ambrosia's essay to be written from the heart.  --DD

I just found out today, that my favorite elementary school is being closed down, due to budget cuts. This made me furious, and sad. We keep cutting the education budget, like there's still a chance that ruining it will save us. The education budget can't be cut any longer, what we need to do is cut the budget for other things. One thing that would help everyone, is cutting the funding on military purposes. Cut down the spending on the pentagon. If we just protested harder we could get the government under our control. We the citizens are supposed to be the government, not just a select few. To my dismay it's been quite obliviously been pointed out to me, that people don't want or care to do anything against this injustice. They think any sort of fight is useless, because the government is going to do anything they please. No, it's because we the citizens don't fight enough, that our government is taking control. We are letting this big bad government intimidate us, thus they continue to bully. Some people don't want to fight, because they think the government's half assed protection is worth losing liberty. "A society that will give up a little liberty for a little security, deserves neither and will lose both," Benjamin Franklin. This is what is happening, and this is what's true. No one fighting for our rights, is putting us in a headlock. We are making ourselves suffer, and making future generations suffer. We need to not be so afraid of having our voices heard.  Go protest. Protest the cutting of the educational budget, and start demanding a cutting in the pentagon expenses. Make a change, we need a revolution, and we need it now. ---Ambrosia Cunningham