Ayn Rand told us this would happen. Atlas Shrugged spells out, with spooky accuracy considering it’s more than fifty years old, the financial troubles of a government run amok. She tried to warn us, but we didn’t listen. This blog has taken to waxing financial of late because, well, it’s impossible to avoid it in the news and on America’s lips. We’re all talking about it, but is anyone listening?

Beating a Dead Horse
The financial crisis has hit universities hard. Scholarships, once the best way for poorer Americans to transcend classes, have taken quite a hit. The poor are getting poorer, but the rich, alas, have stopped getting richer. Bailouts, bailouts, bailouts, when are we going to see these actually starting to work? Obama, you’ve got a lot of work to do; please, get us back on our feet without crippling the nation.  

Because Knowledge Is Power!
We all need to take a moment to think things through. Ask why more often. Not only is it a great way to kill an evening, you might learn something. Learning is free, while education is becoming increasingly the opposite. Scholarship money is being used for other things, so to cash in you’ll need to start getting creative. They say that every problem is actually an opportunity. Let’s go, entrepreneurs, we’ve got niches to fill!   

Best Thing for It
Here’s my humble advice: keep on truckin’. If we all start losing hope, giving up on our futures, and copping out, nothing–NOTHING AT ALL–is going to change for the better. If you can’t afford the perfect school, find an online program that costs less, while letting you earn a degree around even a hectic work schedule. Other programs are out there, too. Where there’s a will there’s a way, right? Hopefully this whole economic turmoil thing will turn out to be just a really rough period of adjustment to the Information Age. It’s natural selection. Only through education will we effectively update our memes, evolve, and survive.