Cookies and Posters

Policy class today consisted of the poster presentations. The project included constructing our own National Budget Stimulation. We were all instructed to place our posters on the wall to be viewed. This gave everyone the opportunity to view every peer poster. Everyone did a marvelous job and the poster looked wonderful. This was the first poster and for the first one, the effort was great. No one achieved over the other because everyone had minor flaws and excellent points to make. Participating in this project at first, I was a little irritated. I realized that creating a budget for the entire country is a complex job. My values include fairness and I wanted to support almost every issue but it was impossible. This is because I could not necessary maintain complete fairness or balances the way I wished to. Also my mind constantly stayed on the nature of the deficit. My major area was education because I believe with education we could possible be a better country. A degree is incredibly important today. With higher education, this calls for better jobs and better opportunities. Higher education can possibly pull plenty of families out of the low income area. More money should be placed to build better schools especially in poor areas so that children in these areas can have just as a better education as children in high income areas. Community colleges should be supported so that individuals from low income families can have a better opportunity to attend college. I focused on Community and Regional Development where rural communities can attain more jobs, job training, job services, and public services. There were many areas to touch with this budget but not everything could be sited on the poster. The poster speaks for itself but also there were plenty of things that I came across or research that I never knew. There were many things that I learned from this poster that I could have talked about. There was no possible way to just slap something on a poster with this project because one way or another we are all effected but this project. The budget affects all of us as being college students. With this project you had to stop and think about things as least once. Most importantly values and lifestyles are deeply rooted somewhere. The cookies and walking around to view the posters gave it an exhibit touch. ;-)

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