Your voice matters more than you think
Jessie Kallman
Issue date: 10/9/06 Section: Opinion
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Why doesn't our generation vote? Are we "too good?" Is our time so precious that we can't spare an hour or less every other year to go to the polls? Is it possible that our generation has been strategically avoided when it comes to campaigns and elections?
Do we think our parents will disown us if we vote for a candidate who has new ideas like gay rights, funding education or maybe even raising the minimum wage rather than their own salaries? These are all reasons why our generation avoids the polls on Election Day.
It's time for this to change! No more excuses! It's time to vote and gain back the credibility we need to hold our politicians accountable.
It's this easy. Old people vote and young people don't; therefore, politicians have figured out what they need to do to get reelected. They need to cater to the old people. As a result, our current politicians have been so busy catering to the old people they have forgotten to fund education.
George Bush thought he had a great new way to reform the federal education policy by creating the No Child Left Behind Act; he just forgot to fund it. He got too busy scaring the old-people voters of Muslims and Iraqis so he could continue to feed his oil money and power-hungry Texan instincts.
With his "freedom isn't free" rhetoric, he scared those poor old people voters into thinking Iraq has jeopardized our freedom. He scared them so much they voted for him again so we could stay in Iraq to keep free from those scary Muslim Iraqis and mostly to keep our freedoms here in the land of the free.
It's about time our generation stands up to let the old people voters know that they have been duped. It was declared five years ago that Iraq had nothing to do with Sept. 11, so why are we still there? Besides oil, I have no idea. But one main reason is because our generation doesn't vote.
Let's consider the facts. George Bush and his oil-hungry friends are gaining personally by imperializing Iraq, and they keep scaring those old people voters into thinking Iraq did something to us, when it's been proven that they haven't. But none of those people in those facts are truly being harmed, unless they have served or have lost a loved one.
Do we think our parents will disown us if we vote for a candidate who has new ideas like gay rights, funding education or maybe even raising the minimum wage rather than their own salaries? These are all reasons why our generation avoids the polls on Election Day.
It's time for this to change! No more excuses! It's time to vote and gain back the credibility we need to hold our politicians accountable.
It's this easy. Old people vote and young people don't; therefore, politicians have figured out what they need to do to get reelected. They need to cater to the old people. As a result, our current politicians have been so busy catering to the old people they have forgotten to fund education.
George Bush thought he had a great new way to reform the federal education policy by creating the No Child Left Behind Act; he just forgot to fund it. He got too busy scaring the old-people voters of Muslims and Iraqis so he could continue to feed his oil money and power-hungry Texan instincts.
With his "freedom isn't free" rhetoric, he scared those poor old people voters into thinking Iraq has jeopardized our freedom. He scared them so much they voted for him again so we could stay in Iraq to keep free from those scary Muslim Iraqis and mostly to keep our freedoms here in the land of the free.
It's about time our generation stands up to let the old people voters know that they have been duped. It was declared five years ago that Iraq had nothing to do with Sept. 11, so why are we still there? Besides oil, I have no idea. But one main reason is because our generation doesn't vote.
Let's consider the facts. George Bush and his oil-hungry friends are gaining personally by imperializing Iraq, and they keep scaring those old people voters into thinking Iraq did something to us, when it's been proven that they haven't. But none of those people in those facts are truly being harmed, unless they have served or have lost a loved one.
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