Written by Neil Kelty on February 2nd, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama has proposed giving a $4,000 tax credit to any US higher education student who works 100 hours of community service each year. Making college more affordable would be a major help to the American education system – it’s a perpetual problem and Obama proposes improving the community by having college students perform community service, which instills lifelong values of servant leadership and volunteerism. In return, these college students can cover two-thirds of the cost of tuition at the average public college or university.
Cutting Costs, Helping Others
The cost of college is rising each day and students continue to struggle with find ways to pay for it without taking out enormous loans that place a burden on themselves, their …
Written by Neil Kelty on January 16th, 2009
We hear everyday about local and state governments struggling to make ends meet. I see lots of positions and services being cut down, while that’s one way to make those cuts these governments should rely on students looking for experience in government to help professional staff complete basic functions. While it’s certainly going to cost those government something to bring in these interns, it will allow some services to stay afloat by allowing staffed personnel to focus on other tasks while delegating some tasks to interns.
There certainly are plenty of students looking for work experience and even an unpaid internship in local or state government would be a bonus.
Think of all the computer knowledge that young students could bring to …
Written by Neil Kelty on November 3rd, 2008
Pork projects, discretionary spending, or whatever you want to call it, is capped at 1% of the total federal budget. Cutting 1% of the federal budget probably isn’t going to solve all our problems, so if John McCain is being elected for the purpose of cutting out pork projects that’s only going to save us $18 billion dollars.
For all the wrath pork projects receive, many of them are actually worthwhile endeavors. By cutting that spending we will be eliminating many of those grants, programs, and projects this money supports. While in the long run that probably would be a good thing for our country to cut it, I’m not convinced the problem has as large of an effect as it’s …
Written by Neil Kelty on October 31st, 2008
Over the past few weeks I’ve heard Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders speak out against “privatizing” Social Security. Now, I’m not sure if privatizing the program is the best way to go, I think we’ve got an awful lot more work to do with regards to that subject. But there is one thing I am sure of, these same people speaking out are railing that Republicans want to gamble with the future of Americans by putting this money into the stock market.
Investing in the stock market is absolutely not gambling. In fact, it’s not even close. Over the past one hundred years, every 10 year period in the stock market has made a positive return (even during the great …
Written by Neil Kelty on October 15th, 2008
This post is a part of Blog Action Day 2008, which attempts to change the conversation for one day to an important subject that affects our world. In 2008, that subject is poverty.
Every 3.5 Seconds…
…a person somewhere around the world dies of hunger. That adds up to more than 25,000 people every year, that like killing the entire crowd at the Wizards stadium for 2 weeks. However, hunger is not the real core problem here, it is simply the symptom. We’ve got to hit the root cause, which happens to be poverty.
There are plenty of great organizations around the world already doing this and I think it’s best left …
