The American Promise

Obama's speech was one of a life time! So many people were expecting a soft side of Obama, but he came out strong with a point to prove. He wants change for the American people more then anything he wants to keep a promise....the American promise!
This was the focal point if his speech. America is going through a rough patch, where us, the middle class hard working men and women are struggling day to day just to make ends meet. Me, as student, is fighting to find the money to pay for my education; to better myself for my future family. My parents and I both have jobs. My father is a firefighter at West Metro Fire Rescue, my mother is a teacher for Jefferson County, and I am an EMT at Swedish Medical Center in the ER. We all have jobs that give to others and everyday we selflessly work to help people. But then I fill out a FASFA, and my family and I are told that we make to much money combined. Well you tell me where I kind find this money that we supposedly have. Yes we make money, but that money goes to bills, how about food, we need that right? Why cant I find the money I need to go to school?
Obama says he will keep the American promise alive! So that the middle class will stop slipping into poverty. So that everyone, regardless of their job, will work hard for themselves and their fellow Americans! So that a single mother does not need to worry about calling in sick to take care of her sick child, and when our soldiers return home they too can find what they need to survive! The American promise...lets all keep it alive!

Texts...educational or not?

Text...you see it everywhere, but do you ever stop and think if it means something? I know I don't. When you're driving you see text, when you walking down the halls of school, and when you're at your place of work. What is educational and what isn't? What is to you is not to me.
When you're driving street signs are very educational, but that stupid billboard about lose ten pounds in two minutes is not. Walking down the hallway at school I see tons of text. Text about people who need a roommate, this class is this way that class is that way, and don't forget about the million upon millons of pages of books we have to read. And then you have our cell phones, which can't help but be used in school. I average about 2,000 texts a month and some people even more. Now places of work. No matter where you work there is text! If you're a life gaurd there are rules posted, heck even the name of the place is more then likely written in a million different places. I work in a hospital, Swedish Medical Center in the ER, there is text everywhere! Rules, directions, charts, name tags...the list goes on and on!
I have gone over just a few things I come across in my life. Weather or not it is educational is not up to me or you! I may think it is and will think I'm crazy for thinking that it is. Who am I to tell anyone what is educational, but I do have my opinions...that's for sure!