Jacob+B’s+Final+AmEx+2013+Speech

=Title of Speech=

What I Don't want to see in America =Text of Speech=

For the past few weeks I, like the rest of you, have been trying to come up with something that I want to see in the future America. I went over dozens of different topics in my head, but was never able to find one that stood out among the rest. After spending quite a lot of time trying to write a speech in one of these areas I realized that there isn’t just one thing that can be done to make a perfect America, so I decided to write about ALL of the changes that need to be made to this country. So, here is my speech on what I no longer want to see in America.

I don’t want to see a country that is worrying about a war that could destroy the entire world. I don’t want to live somewhere with a divorce rate of above 50 percent. Not only that, but another 40 something percent of kids are born to parents who aren’t even married. So basically I don’t want to see kids growing up without two happily married parents. I don’t want to see citizens who are afraid to send their kids to school because some nut with a gun might came and shoot them. I’m tired of living surrounded by illegal drugs. I do not want to live where it is almost as easy to buy drugs as it is to buy candy. I don’t want to live where swearing is heard every other word. Frankly, most of the time it just makes you look stupid. I don’t want to continue living in a country where someone dies every fifteen minutes from a drunk driver. I don’t want a country that has places known for their violence and gangs, like LA and Oakland. I don’t want to live where only 35 percent of Americans get a college diploma and I don’t want to see an America that is ranked 17 th for academics in the world. I don’t want to see so much separation between American politics, two parties that seem to hate everything else the other one does. Finally I have to say, I am tired of living in a country that is basically owned by others. The U.S. is over 16 trillion dollars in debt, most of it owed to China.

I realize that the U.S. or any other country for that matter will never be perfect but I certainly hope that at least a few of these things will change for the better by the time I die. Thank You.

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