Like all parents, I want my girls to grow up in a world where they can pursue their dreams, build the career they imagine and ultimately have more opportunities to succeed than generations past. But with today's economic climate, I see the challenges young Americans currently face -- mounting student loan debt, underemployment and even unemployment. I think about what this could mean for all our children, and I know I want them to have a better, brighter future.
This is why I've joined forces with OUR TIME, an organization that advocates for the rights of young Americans, and ServeNext.org to push for one million new national service jobs. While creating these opportunities is not the only answer to the social problems we face and it might not be the perfect solution, I do think it is one step we can take together to improve these frustrating statistics. And I believe supporting additional AmeriCorps educational, environmental, health, and economic development efforts will positively impact our country not just today but when our children are in our shoes.
By investing now in the training, personal development and productivity of our youth, we're also helping future generations who would otherwise be burdened by our choices and instead are paving the way for them to truly make meaningful contributions to their communities. That's why I have launched this video in support of OUR TIME and their one million new jobs initiative.
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I can tell you one thing though... the answer to the economic woes facing our youth will not be solved by offering a million government jobs and increasing spending.
Maybe some time in the future this will be a problem, where millions get government jobs and than the government goes bankrupt and unemployment balloons but this is not an immediate concern. On the day after US credit was downgraded by 1 agency treasuries sales surged and our borrowing cost fell. US credit is still considered a safe haven asset so it seems foolish to me to cut spending (hurting money being put into the economy) when we can still borrow at good rates. Let's cut spending when the economy is booming, lets cut it a lot. But when the economy is hurting it doesn't make any sense to quickly put less and less money into the economy.
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Please people vote to heal, not to hurt Nov 6 we need freedom of choice and free living, I know who the best for that, I hope you do. Sometimes change is good, we can't worse, we are almost in a second recession.
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We need to prepare the next generation for this level of interconnection. Essentially humanity is traveling down a new road, and beyond knowledge, education must cultivate a 'new human being' so to speak. One who is aware of him/herself and the world he/she is going to live in. One who is capable of creating healthy interactions with others. And one who is capable of conducting one's life as part of an interconnected system of which we are all members, rather than a separated individual focusing on personal survival.
To offer our kids and the next generation the best chance to survive and thrive and repair the extensive damage that we have done, it is time for us to learn and teach them about mutual responsibility. www.mutualresponsibility.org
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It can be done. but handing you a great paying job is not going to happen. you want that? then seek it out, earn it.
H-1b fraud is real. So why do Democrats support H-1b? And why haven't we ended normalized trade with slave labor communist China? Why haven't we ended NAFTA? Obama instead just signed three more free trade deals.
Finally look at illegal labor. Why hasn't Obama called for prison time for employers of illegals? Instead Obama is working amnesty for illegals.
How bad does poverty have to be in the US before DC's war on US workers is taken seriously?!
As of 12/31/00 (Clinton admin) national per capita Debt was $20,067
As of 12/31/08 (Bush admin) national per capita Debt was $35,153
That's an avg. increase of $1885.75 per capita annually during the Bush administration.
As of 12/31/11 (Obama admin) national per capita Debt was $48,358
That's an avg. increase of $4401.66 per capita annually during this administration.
At that rate, by the end of an 8-yr term per capita debt will be $70,366
National insolvency is not exactly the legacy that I'd like my children to inherit.