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25 Things 25 Billion Dollars Can Go Towards Other Than Building A Wall

Spoiler Alert: Mexico is not going to pay for it.

Erin Blackburn

Feb 06, 2017

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25 Things 25 Billion Dollars Can Go Towards Other Than Building A Wall

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A wall is not going to fix the immigration problem. By building that wall you are essentially just trying to ignore the problem. When has ignoring your problems ever worked? Also, instead of keeping people out of America, we should help them in any way we can. Those people are not fleeing to our country because they are bored and have nothing better to do. They want a better lives for themselves and for their families. Yes, they should do it legally, but the immigration policies and processes need to be fixed and updated. I am proud to be an American and even more proud to be a person who values the meaning in helping other people. I am very lucky and blessed to have the life I have here, but others face terrible conditions. We also have problems in America that need fixing too. So instead of having Americans help pay for a wall to keep people out (spoiler alert: Mexico is not going to pay for the wall), we should either save that money or spend it on more important things. Here are a few Ideas that 25 billion dollars could go towards:

1. Hire More Teachers

2. Build More Schools

3. Give Out Scholarships for Students

4. Fix the Water in Flint, Michigan

5. Medical Research (Finding cures to diseases, new antibiotics to fight antibiotic resistant bacteria, new vaccines...etc.)

6. More Affordable Health Care for those without insurance

7. Paid Maternity Leave

8. More Affordable Women's Health Care

9. Help with Finances with Families With Sick Children (Dance Marathon)

10. Update Hospitals

11. Help the Homeless

12. Feed the Hungry

13. Help People Who Have Been Affected by Natural Disasters

14. Stop Deforestation in the Amazon

15. Plant More Trees

16. Fund Scientific Research Towards Preventing Climate Change

17. Help Small Businesses

18. Road Repairs

19. Power Businesses With Solar Energy

20. Give More Funding To Veterans

21. Help Pay for Book Costs of College Students

22. Fund Programs that Help People With Disabilities

23. Provide Clothing for the Poor

24. Help Students Pay off Loans

25. Helping refugees

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No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

Nobody deserves to be living in poverty.

"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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