Bernie! Bernnnniiiiieeeee!

With the election coming, the canidates seem to be as any year, the best of the worst.

But for some, especially the younger generation, Bernie Sanders was a light in a tunnel of darkness.

Younger people, and socialists alike gathered around the cause.  Lets have free education, free childcare, free healthcare.

Normally Im not too political.

Mainly because its a wasteland.

But people got behind this idea of a candidate who would give them, and their daily lives what they wanted, what they needed, what they deserved.

I am not one of those people.

With education specifically, I paid my fair share, my 100k plus.  And I'd like relief from that, or to have never had that at all, by different life choices, i.e. the military or just hard work, or even better, and education funded by my parentsn at least partially as I am attempting with my son.

But a free education is not something that is feesible.

What happened to working towards a goal?

I hate the hard work.

I work 7 days a week for it.

Blue and white collar.

But as a society, as an American Capitalistic society, progression is possible but not a total overnight transformation.

This is America and we believe anything is possible, especially overnight transformation.

Fat fighting, plastic surgery, Get Rich Quick schemes.

You name it, we as Americans have embraced it.

But thats a lie and momentary fleeting feelings and lifestyles.

Leaving us wanting more.

We are already offered healthcare, social systems such as primary education and safety, Obama phone, food if we need it, the postal service, financial services for secondary and post secondary education.

And frankly, if we want free college, free healthcare, free daycare, and anything else our hearts desire as free, we're just working to turn the rest of our lives over to public systems.

Public systems that don't work right, are over or under funded depending on the politicians, even Bernie.

Public systems like my community which left to its own accord is in massive debt, has an abysmal school system, and growing social issues.

Public systems dont improve our society, they slow it down.  Innovation is slowed, if theres any room for it at all.  Efficiency lacks.  Progress as a society is left to the government when it should be left to the people.

Hope is a good thing.

Change for the better is a good thing.

Dramatic societal change such as free education and $15 minimum wage are impossible realities from the base we have now. 

There is a better future but WE have to work for it. 

The collective WE.

Us as individuals.

Not the government.

And certainly not Bernie Sanders.

More Choices

There are many more choices in life other than to college or not.

But when college is the option then the choice is what to study.  Sure, where, how, and other questions also arise but what is the most important of those choices.

Talking with a 16 year old cousin, I find myself preaching on the words I write here. To not college.  And if I could go back I wouldnt change my decision, but I would hopefully do it better. Think about it more and realize there are many more years after college. Years that the decisions made before, through, and after are affected.

So the choice of what to study and ultimately Be is one that shouldn't be made lightly, but one that any young person does not know because they've barely experienced to know what is.  But nonetheless we give them that life defining choice and let them run into whatever life they choose, which the direction is chosen in some instances but paths and obstacles arise that were not necessarily by choice.

He, my cousin, wants to be an aerospace engineer, which to me sounds like a child saying I want to be an astronaut.  To say that you will start into this career path is one thing but getting through is a whole different, long and brutal story.  Ive known many an engineering student move elsewhere,  which are those unseen and unchosen paths and obstacles.  So I heeded him that warning along with a warning to chose a field like that, he also said mechanical engineering which seems a bit more obtainable but also a grueling effort is needed to succeed while in school.

I, as an accounting major, took a job for jobs sake and still believe in the accounting major as an adequate opportunity with a heed of warning that you, unlike I, must put in the work to find a position in the field.  But many come out with 'business' or 'management' or 'communication' or 'miscellaneous' degrees and look for miscellaneous jobs, not unlike myself.  So I ask what then is the point of those degrees.  And the point of educational institutions that give 'knowledge' but actually give nothing of real value, physical or future, such as guarantee of a position.  A guarentee of a grade is giving and even when that is sufficient, a job is still not given.

Maybe im being a child of my generation.

Entitled.

Maybe im just bitching. As always.

But read and know that the choice of 'what' is a fine point as to know to college or not to college.