Some Place Like America

            The outlook on the rough times Americans have faced in the past decades is horrendous. It’s nearly impossible for me to try and think of what it would be like to go through life with a wife and family and not be able to support them. It must have been life changing to see all the beaten and broke down people, knowing what life has done to them. It goes to show that crooked politics and money hungry business men were basically the down fall of the American economy.

            To go all around the country like they did is a dream to anyone; but not in the sense of what they did. They showed how everyone is in hard times whether it is in the south, up north, or mid-west etc. it makes you as an American want to stand together and fight back; but what can you do? Officials may say that a “Great Depression” has been avoided but that still doesn’t mean the past recessions haven’t been agonizing to everyone. It seems that it will forever remain that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The big wigs only seem to look out for themselves and their just as rich friends as well.

            It’s ridiculous to say that Americans aren’t tough compared to the 1930’s generation. We have consistently been in wars for the past 30 years; most of the time fighting and sacrificing lives for the sake of oil. We have been at war over seas now for 10 years fighting the same battles with the same radical assholes that blow themselves for the sake of their beliefs. I have a couple friends who have been home and sent back a couple times after being told that would no longer need to go back.

            I do feel bad for the homeless as well, but at the same time it seems to me like it would be really hard to be homeless. There’s so many things that the government and charities will do for people like that. It seems to me that if you’re homeless you pretty much have to want to live like that. I’m not saying that speaks for all the homeless people but at least some of them. I would find it hard to not wear out every option to get a job or get help form someone; even if it is a minimum wage job at a fast food place.

            In all, I do understand that America is going through and has gone through extremely tough times, but it wouldn’t be America if we weren’t. We are all still tough it might just be in a different way than the generation of the 1930’s. Maybe it’s the political system or maybe it’s just the lack of jobs, but either way who’s to blame.  In the end we all know that we will continue to work hard and progress towards a better future for the generations of kids and adults to come.