Things Need to Change

Do you ever watch the news and think man I wish I could change that? Have you ever gone through your day and just thought things need to change?

I know that I hardly ever get through a week without discovering something that I wish I had the power to change or fix. Recently I realized....I do! I do have the power to fix anything I want its just a matter of figuring out how to go about getting it done. 

Here are a few of the things that I personally think need to be changed or fixed:

• College and University tuition prices...With the prices of tuition now a days nobody can afford to send their kids to college. Although I guess that works out pretty good for companies that offer student loans. Which brings me to my next point.
• Student loan interest rates....Have you seen the interest rates on those things? Man you get one loan and you spend the rest of your life paying it off. I feel bad for the kids who need to get them to cover all 4 years of college....GOOD LUCK TO YOU! If you get the loan by yourself (without a cosigner) they charge you interest up the butt. Having your parents cosign for you can help a little bit..if they have good credit. If your parentals have bad credit well your just all around screwed!
• Plus size modeling...I don't know about most people but those models that they consider "plus size" look like normal girls to me. They look like girls that I could go to the beach and see prancing around in bikinis and I don't mean flab hanging out all over either. They look like normal healthy woman. I guess I'm confused a little bit when it comes to the modeling size issue. Aren't designers making clothes that they want people to buy? Most people I know aren't nearly as thin as those tooth pick models. So who is it they want to buy their clothes?
• All the tummy tuck, face lift, botox, diet, lippo crap shown in magazines. I picked up a suburban woman magazine and the whole thing from cover to cover was about how to fix different parts of your body...face lift, whiten your teeth, tummy tuck, get rid of crows feet and laugh lines. People wonder why women today are so concerned with the way they look and being so nasty skinny...news flash when everywhere a woman looks she sees fix this and fix that she can't help but think she needs to improve the way she looks. Personally I think its the flaws we have that make us fabulous and unique. Those crows feet and laugh lines are supposed to be there. They show that you've had a life full of happiness and laughter. If you don't have them what does it tell people...you don't know what it feels like to laugh so hard you cry and personally I think thats a shame. I couldn't imagine going through life and now knowing what that feels like. 
• The amount of money illegal immigrants make...I know they aren't here legally and while that is bad I think they are paying for it hard core. In fact they are paying for it more than they should. Because they're illegal employers don't see fit to pay them what they would pay a legal citizen. I think thats disgusting considering how hard working most of them are. I worked with a man who worked about 81 hours a week. From about 8 in the morning to 12 or 1 am 7 days a week. He was payed about a quarter more than the minimum wage but that was only after working there for about 5 years. That man gave up his life to work for them and because he was illegal and didn't speak very good english he didn't even understand about over time and how hard core he was getting ripped off. It just makes me sad to see that people don't even have the decency to treat another human being the way they should be treated because of their own greed. 
• The cost of healthy food in comparison to junk food. People are always commenting on the obesity problem in America. Well have you looked around at food prices. Healthy food costs way more than junk food does. Whether your shopping at the grocery store or buying food at a restaurant its all the same. A salad costs more than a cheeseburger....are you serious! How can you complain about people being fat when are food pricing system is so messed up?
• The way scholarships are given...I get wanting to award students that do outstanding when it comes to academics or sports but come on how about giving more students a chance and not giving 10 scholarships to the same kid. I think thats ridiculous. I know a ton of students who deserve scholarships just because they didn't participate in as many extra curriculars or play sports doesn't mean they shouldn't get one. Plus schools that don't do the special ranking for advance placement courses are kind of cheating their students out of scholarships. Kids who excel in average classes are getting scholarships because they got and A when a kid who took an advance placement course got a B. Thats bogus!
• Credit Card Services...Ever want to check your credit score or credit report online? Well they have about 100 different sites that will let you see them for a fee. What they don't tell you is that not only are you paying that fee but you're also signing up to pay a monthly fee for credit monitoring services. I don't think so....those sites are ripping so many people off its ridiculous. Did you know that if they can't charge your credit card one month they never contact you, instead they keep on trying until the payment goes through and if it never does well its just posted to your credit report as not being payed. They will never contact you!...What kind of credit monitoring service is that? 

Well I can probably go on and on but those are a few of the main things that I think need to be changed. I'm still working on figuring out a  way to fix them.