by Lori Sutterluety

Created on: September 13, 2009

Building monuments is a waste of resources and manpower in this time in history. Building new homes at this time does not make sense in todays economy. This is the problem with our country and the world today. The problem is that we are putting money, resources, and time into things that are not necessary for our survival. We have enough monuments. We have enough houses to live in with way too much space in them I might add. Let us get by with the homes we already have built here in the United States. We need to use the money where it is mostly needed.

The money should be used to raise peoples' wages and give lower paid employees a fair wage that will help them to be able to pay their bills and feed their family without having to struggle every month. This is where the money should be spent. Who on this planet can live on $7.30 an hour or even $15.00 an hour? This is a joke. People have spent so much time and money on useless items, nick nacks, and other unnecessary toys and gadgets that they don't use. People have to rent storage space to store these items. We are building storage units of all sizes all over the United States. These units are filled with possessions that are useless. People can not sell these items anymore at yard or garage sales, because people do not have the extra spending money or room for these items. We have made China that much richer by buying all of their nick nacks and junk. Now that we are broke from spending our money on buying their goods, they will soon become broke because we can't buy their junk anymore. It is a never ending cycle. The damage is done and I don't think we can dig our way out of this one.

Building monuments should be the least of our concerns. We can not eat them or use them for healing the sick. They are only beneficial to look at and serve the purpose of marking the land. We are building new shopping centers just across the street from ones that have become abandoned but still stand. This just makes no sense at all to build more buildings when the building are fit enough to be used for another 20 years. The last hundred years or more that technology and knowledge has exploded. I have to say it has not been managed well or appreciated and used in the ways that it could have made our planet healthy and prosperous.

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