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Out With The Old, and In With The Young!
The New 21st Century America
by Miriam G. Aw
Regardless of what you may think about the idea of change, it is being actualized in the 21st Century, whether you like it, or not! And as a result of 'change,' the traditional known phrase of "Out with the Old, and In with the New" which is often associated with the coming of the New Year, is now "Out with the Old, and In with the Young!"
America was hit hard with this bit of fact about 'change' quicker than an elephant sinking in quicksand when the news of our country’s economy in Year 2008 was increasingly spoiling the existence of viable businesses, banks, car dealerships, and so forth, to the point of retarding financial assistance, and/or bankruptcy claims to home owners who were, and still are, losing their homes due to foreclosures.
In addition, common sense practices of saving money for a rainy day was dismissed, and credit cards overturned the sense of practicality into a hoarding impatient country to the point that even excellent credit card holders are now being treated just as poorly as an individual with horrendous credit by attaching increasing fees onto their account. Wow, talk about working hard to keep your credit score in tact. If that is not a kick in the face, I don't know what is at this point!
So, how did this happen?
Frankly put, greed, manipulative home lending practices, deceit, and yes, even the psychological use of “divide and conquer’ racial, and class tactics played major roles in the demise of our country’s economic woes by covertly pitting so-called “middle class” Americans against ‘’poor working class’ American individuals, thus leading the charge that ‘middle class’ individuals can afford to live in a larger square footage home than the average poor working class individual, or family. And it worked, BIG TIME!
However, the joke-of-the-century, which was pulled-off magnificently by manipulative bankers, home loan lenders, to name a couple, received the blessings from the previous White House Administration under former President Bush’s eight years in office, that the so-called middle class populations’ need to be better than those who are unlike them in many, and every way, suffered as a result of this tremendous American hoax!
In fact, BOTH the race AND class cards that were dealt by the powers-that-be, who orchestrated the strings of puppets behind the financial scene had worked so well, millions of American people have literally gone financially broke, became unemployed, have intentionally received poor education, and for the most part, they were not encouraged to further their education to climb the corporate ladder.
In other words, America got screwed without the benefit of a penis!
To add insult to injury, the call to either attend college, or go back to college to further one's education, especially in the fields dealing with health care, education, green jobs, computer technology, and so forth, is not a call for the old, but instead, for the young! And, it is not a call for anyone who decides to attend a private post-secondary educational institution, for example, ITT, which is a school that teaches Information Technology (i.e., computer programming, and the ilk).
The proof of the pudding is in your Sunday newspaper classified ads. Pick a day - any day to buy a newspaper, or go online to seek your [so-called] dream job. Too many of these employers are looking for 1) College degrees, and or 2) Years of related experience, and/or 3) College and years of related experience, and/or 4) State Certification, and/or 5) Licensing, and/or . . . you get the picture. For the average person, who is 40 years of age, or older, who've never attended college, but have worked at a place of business for a numerous amount of years, and have outsourced itself, and has been left to be unemployed, uneducated, and unable to afford to attend college.
And, if through the Grace of God, he or she can attend college, or a privately run post-secondary educational institution to take a stab at the healthcare field, for example, will find a rude awakening at the fact that a myriad of courses in the medical field have been broken down to the bone so much that it will take at least FIVE YEARS to receive a complete sense of getting "whole" education! There are either Certificates, or Diplomas given in: Medical Terminology; Medical Office Assistant; Phlebotomy; Medical Billing; Medical Coder; and the list goes on, and on!
When I attended the same kind of school in the health care field, I received a COMPLETE bundle of ALL OF THE AFOREMENTIONED SUBJECTS/COURSES LISTED ABOVE! Five days a week for six months (600 hours), a thorough education was given, and medical terminology, coding, insurance, billing, vital signs, venipuncture (phlebotomy), CPR, typing, filing, medical records, and other administrative and clinical learning skills, were wholly taught within, and as a complete package! It afforded me to work in hospitals, medical centers/clinics, nursing homes, along with physicians who either head the department, division, and/or the health institution itself, in Endocrinology, Pediatric Nephrology and Immunology, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics, just to name a few.
TODAY?
You have specific learning modules that are offered, particularly, in two-year colleges. There is a Certificate, or Diploma, for this. When you are completed with that program, now you have to take another program. More money. Then there is another program course. More money and time. Then another, and another! Damn, by the time you are able to receive a comprehensive knowledge about, and in the health care field, years and a lot of money would have gone by, along with your age! It is all about money! Pure greed. And this "Educational Rape" has been going on for, at least, the past decade!
The practices of "financial rape" performed by many schools, businesses, banks/credit card suppliers, home loan lenders, health care/life/vehicle insurances, and land-line telephone companies, just to name a few, in America are worse than any male who pimps out a female to earn money for himself by (mis) using, and abusing someone else's goods just to satisfy their own!
Meanwhile, back at the farm, the younger the population gets while tackling the advancing technology in computers at an early age, for example, or starting early in life to pursue a specific career in the health care profession, education, green jobs, etc., the older the individual gets when he, or she, who were taught to believe that their future was solid-as-a-rock, decides to tackle the economic societal ills of attempting to better themselves in an economy that is no longer their own to possess by attending school when in fact, the game is basically over for them.
The truth of the matter is that I am an optimist, and I do not believe in portraying negativity at any time. Anyone who knows me can attest to this. What pisses me off, however, is no one wants to admit there is a problem with today's job market, and the people who are paying the price are the individuals who were bamboozled into believing that their way of thinking, and living, particularly so-called 'middle class' Caucasians, was the American Dream to behold, and that no one else is privy to such a lifestyle.
The irony here is that no one can blame the Mexicans, Blacks, poor Whites, Asians, the Native Americans, or welfare assistance recipients, for the declination of our country's economy because now there are no jobs to blame anyone for taking at the expense of the American people!
Again, the "divide & conquer" practices of race, class, and economic status used to pitt each other against each other played integral roles into America's economic demise performed by "behind-the-scene" power players, who've gained financial wealth, and power as a result of this 'Willie Lynch' methodology on ALL races, classes, despite an individual's economic status! Ain't THAT a bitch!
And much like in the Bible when a group of people had to wander around for 40 years until they all died out, such a prophecy is seemingly taking place today in the early 21st Century for many individuals who refuse to make change . . . thus, "Out with the Old, and In with the Young!"
Too bad such a revelation have not set quite firmly into the minds of the living dead.
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