Politics

So I just recently decided that I want to go back to Point Park and double major in Broadcasting and Photography or Photojournalism (not really sure which one I want to do yet or which one would benefit me more). Now as much as I love Point Park, college is not exactly the cheapest thing ever (okay college is just down right ridiculously expensive) and the problem is the prices just continue to go up every year.
So to hear that they are going to screw this up even more and dip into the college money is frustrating. With Obama's new health care deal they will be dipping into the federal money used for student loans and as a student, who is already frustrated with the cost of college, this is incredibly bad news. Now I do believe that everyone deserves health care and that in other countries plans like this do and have worked out for years. My question is why do they have to fuck something else up to fix things? Why can't we just find a reasonable way to fund everything without causing something else to go out of whack? What we need is women who know how to run things on a tight budget, who know how to get things done in as little money as possible without overspending. That's who should be figuring out the budget, the women (and men) who know how to use a tight budget accurately instead of over-spending for ridiculous things.
Pennsylvania state government does it all the time in my opinion. They didn't have enough of a budget to take care of the state when that huge snow storm hit but they sure as hell had enough money to help expand the casinos, which guess what I'm nearly positive that the casinos highest percentage of visitors are over 50 (I did not get this from anything official, this is a guess from my own experience). So you are promoting gambling for older people to take their money away and then you have a bunch of people unable to pay anything because they hope to retire and live off of lottery winnings and that is not idealistic.
What needs to happen is people need to voice their opinions more and unfortunately people just don't care. They figure hey if it doesn't affect me what does it matter, but it does affect everyone whether you can realize it or not. Did you know there are more states that allow marriage between first cousins then there are states that it is legal for homosexuals to get married. I mean that is just disgusting and ridiculous, and whatever happened to the separation of church and state because when it comes down to it the reasoning behind people not allowing gays to get married is always because of religion.
Anyway that rant just turned into an even bigger one then I meant it to be. Either way I am sick of the government screwing everyone over and over-spending the budget on things that are stupid and ridiculous. And I am sick of how things are run any more, everything is for the money and its disgusting what things have become. Anyway, not really sure what triggered this rant but I'm annoyed!