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I would like to comment on an article posted on Yahoo on Sunday, August 16,
titled: The 50 richest colleges:
This report is good and
people really need to know this information because these institutions are
educational institutions and are in business to educate young people and to
serve as good examples for the younger generations. With that in mind our
country is going through tough times right now, the very same system that
enabled these individuals and institutions to achieve their high positions
in society. They always talk of how great America is and how much they love
America, when it suits them. Many years ago the president of the United
States informed all Americans that we all needed to make sacrifices for the
benefit of the country. Please tell me what sacrifices these very wealthy
individuals and institutions made for the benefit of the country? Did they
simply continue with their business as usual—with their own profiteering
ways? While only the American soldiers were left to put their lives on the
line and make the necessary sacrifices, alone?
There is a
problem in America and it concerns this very same issue. Is capitalism
moral? Should it remain the same, where some continue to gain too much
while others go without? America is the richest country on earth, is it
really the right thing to do? Can we continue on this course? Should we
continue to rely on our military to bully the rest of the world and when,
and if, they don’t agree with our profit only state of mind, just kill them
and then expect then not to try and kill us too?
Many in our
society maintain an old out dated primitive way of thinking, which is
confrontational, dangerous, disrespectful, greedy and selfish, to many in
the rest of the world. America remains a divided country from within; many
don’t even want our own people to have health insurance, because of their
own selfishness and greed. Where is the unity in the United States, when
everyone is divided by policies and profits, republicans and democrats,
wealthy and poor, haves and have not’s, just to name a few.
An
AuthorHouse published book titled: THE ROAD TO AMERICA’S ECONOMIC MELTDOWN,
available at Amazon, Barnes&Nobles, and many other retailers, address
many of these issues. All Americans need to read it. These major
institutions like these 50 richest college professors need to read it and
remember that changes are needed now for the benefit of the future
generations. No more ignoring the facts on the ground and the practicing of
business as usual. Our younger generations must learn to do a better job of
taking care of their fellow Americans. Do away with the profit only
philosophy. Or we may not have another recovery after the next created
crisis for a few people at the top to gain greater fortunes at the expense
of the less fortunate people in American society. Read the writing on the
wall before it’s too late.
Jan 24, 2007
