Generation Debt Dialectical Journal #3

                                     I.      Generation Debt  (Dialectical Journal #3)

                                  II.      Kamenetz, Anya. “Generation Debt.” Dialogues: An Arguement Rhetoric and Reader. Eds. Goshgarian, Gary, and Kathleen Krueger. Longman: Boston, 2011. 543-547. Print.

                               III.      The short essay “Generation Debt” is about, well from the title it is easily to differ that the essay is about massive debt amongst the masses. There is one thing that you don’t know and that is what country is the most affected by debt. Not only that but how debt affects a majority of college students in the United States.

                               IV.      “Young people are falling behind first of all because of money. College tuition has grown faster than inflation in the last three decades, and faster than family income in the last fifteen years” (page 545 They Say I Say).

¨      “Financial aid has lagged behind” (page 545 They Say I Say).

                                  V.      One of the reasons that I chose this quote about raising tuition and how it grows faster than family income is because I know from a first‑hand experience. Raising tuition affects a household and family especially when your parents only make a certain amount of money a year for all of their expenses.

                    Not to mention when you are supporting five kids with the two eldest in college, it tends to pull your income very thin. I know I struggle with the fact that in order for me to be attending college I had to take out loans.

                   The amount of money that I was able to take out “borrow” in reality is barely enough to cover my tuition which leaves me to pay my books all alone; with whatever money I can scrape together since books are extremely expensive.

                   As of right now, if I keep having to borrow money for school by the time I am out of college I will be about twenty-five thousand dollars in debt. It makes you look back on high school and appreciate the fact that you didn’t have to pay for any of your books, classes, materials etc.

                  I know for a fact that I can relate to a lot of  the college students in the Cal States since now we are about to experience more raising tuitions and fewer classes for all of the budget cuts that are taking place.

                  Lastly, ironically colleges don't have the money for more teachers or classes, yet, every college is getting a complete renovation. why is that you might ask, well only the deans know.