Alejandro+R’s+Final+AmEx+2013+Speech

=Title of Speech= An America with Prosperity

=Text of Speech=

In the America that I grow up and be an adult in, I wish to see a government that pays more attention to bigger crisis in the nation rather than to lag on the same bills that we have been hearing for more than a decade. I want to see a prosperous country that moves into the future rather than going back to the same problems. An America, which responds to bigger problems that nobody sees, not even the government. I am not here to rant about one thing but here to rant about a bunch of different things. I don’t want to see class distinction just because you come from a different country or because your accent isn’t too “American”. I don’t want to see an America where new foreigners are treated as minorities or that are oppressed upon of. I want to see equal pay for everyone regardless of sex or ethnicity. And I especially don’t want to see human rights being violated toward the American people. I want to see a country, maybe, if someday, even the world to solve all its problems. And even though I know, and all of you know, that it might not happen, we can try to solve these problems one step at a time.

Everywhere I go, at least the places I go, I see mountains of trash and waste, I see no parks and no recreational places, and I also don’t see anybody trying to address the situation. This situation has gotten to a point where it cannot be addressed by the cities because of drastic “budget cuts”, but lets not forget the millions of dollars cities spend on recreational places on the “wealthier” sides of town. But why is this happening? Is it because some neighborhoods are filled with poor people, is it because those people are meant to live like that, or is it because they are too lazy to get a job because they dropped out of school? You guessed it. It’s all of the above. Its problems like these that need to be addressed by the government for prosperity amongst everyone, not just the wealthy. I understand that sometimes poor people only want money to buy drugs, but there are other people who are really struggling and really know what its like to live in the world while doing everything possible to climb the ladder to achieve the American Dream, but why cant these people achieve their dream? It’s because they get no support from the government. The government should put an end on the “War on Poverty” as president Lyndon B Johnson once said. The government needs to understand that the slums have slummy people because they have no parks, no libraries, no public facilities, no proper education, and no places to have positive influences by. I’m talking about the ignorance some people have towards “minorities” in the United States on how they never make it out of their “blue collar” jobs because they dropped out of school and because they became obese. I believe that the reason for their ignorance is because these “high majorities”, or the ones who think they are above everyone get handed everything: parks, water parks, libraries, you name it. I mean, what else do they want. The things they forget to realize are, that these slummy people have nothing, nothing to grow on and to learn on. Why?, because no programs are being provided by the government. For instance, why is it that people in East Side or South Central Los Angeles are always asking for money, food, and shelter while their same “Angelino” brothers on the other side of town are having the time of their life? It’s because they have better schools, libraries that actually have books, more police protection, and facilities that keep them occupied such as parks and programs. Lets look at a more narrow prospective, like in out own city. Have we not seen these people in our city: the ones “majorities” always criticize?

On a much shorter, but also important topic: Equal pay for all workers of America. Last week I met five farmers from Oxnard. These individuals told me that they too were trying to pursue the American Dream but they told me something else, they told me about their experiences in the fields. They told me that they have to work form sunrise till sunset with permission of going to the bathroom once throughout the whole day, no overtime, no clean water, and have to rush to eat. I find it real hard to believe that this is happening in the year 2013 and in the United States. Luckily, these people live day in and day out thanking God that they have work while other people complain about everything: where they get their water, where they work at, what type of clothes they wear, where they live, what restaurant they will eat at, etc.

I don’t want to see poverty increase because we have nowhere to put them or farmers being treated as if they weren’t humans. I want to see an enhanced American economy.

In the America that I grow up and be an adult in, I want to see actual change than what our government has promised us, change that wont take a decade or more to complete, change that will actually help all of us progress through life and into the future. That’s the America that I wish to see.

=Cite Your Sources=

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2044176_2044193_2044204,00.html http://www.who.int/topics/poverty/en/ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/21/poverty-and-growth-retro-urbanists-cling-to-the-myth-of-suburban-decline.html My brain and knowledge My experiences