Sunday, May 1, 2011

As you wrap up your essay, I want you all to post any last thoughts on the global financial crisis. The era that the financial crisis ushered in may be one of the most important times in our lives. This is especially true for all of you looking to graduate in the next couple of years as unemployment remains high and the availability of good jobs remains low. These consequences linger as the big corporations are again making huge profits and the government flirts with inflation in order to appease Wall Street. Just reflect on these facts and comment on two other blogs.

It is a scary time that we live in. I don't want to sound to overly dramatized but the future is uncertain for those of us who are looking to start our "lives" after we finish school. Never before has a generation faced this lack of economic opportunity available to them, as we do now. This does not even take into account the the fact that the quality of life, economic opportunity and the income disparity in the last twenty years have been increasing for the working middle class. With unemployment at one of the highest rates in decades and the cost of living sky rocketing while the real wage of workers is going down; the future looks grim.

2 comments:

  1. I agree with you, we are all very scared for our future. But hopefully our government will be able to come up with a plan to help our future.

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  2. Life is beautiful because it has good days and bad days, we are having some bad days that is all. As long as we don't give our hopes up, life will lighten up. I think of 1930's people's lives because after the Great Depression they must have endured tough lives, so what we are going through right now is nothing compare to those who were living in the 30s. Keep your chin up, folks, we will pass this hurdle together.

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