Letters to the editor
To the editor:
For the current generation on the brink of entering adulthood as well as for the ones that follow it, the future isn’t exactly bright. Though sad, it’s rather interesting to look at what the situation is for those who are leaving high school, with more and more young men and women waiting longer to begin their lives since the money, time and opportunity simply isn’t there.
With more people entering college and more going to higher levels of it than before, a standard degree doesn’t really mean a damn thing in the long run due to an over saturation of people who have it. Obviously it’s great that more people are entering college and expanding their education, but unfortunately it leaves people with a mountain of debt without the means to climb out it. Only thing this achieves is handicapping the future. How are we supposed to grow and flourish if we push the next generation out the nest while cutting their wings off? We can’t, we won’t and we don’t.
Sure, some could argue that not everybody should succeed and those that work the hardest can and will overcome those odds. Those arguments are valid, in fact I agree with them, but why stack the deck against the future right out the gate? Something needs to be done, as we are wasting a ton of potential and just hurting ourselves if we leave the situation as is without addressing it.
Any nation that doesn’t remember the past (the elderly), help the present (the middle aged workforce) and build toward the future (college students/high schoolers) is destined to fall, and we can be sure our fate will be no different.
That’s a fact, and you can believe that.
J. Jernigan
Hillsborough