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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.

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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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All names should be "unisex names."

1. Communicating via email can be awkward.

2. Appointments usually accompany weird looks.

3. Introducing yourself to someone is never without a hitch.

4. You’ve probably thought about changing your name.

5. You’re often asked why you have the name you do.

6. You get excited when you meet someone of your gender with your name.

7. You feel awkward when you meet someone of the opposite gender with your name.

8. You’ve had someone say to you, “I knew a [your name], but they were [your opposite gender].”

9. You’ve heard a bad joke/pick-up line or two about your name before.

10. People are surprised when they see you.

11. You’re extra sensitive to other unique or unisex names.

12. You’ve fought with your parents about it.

13. All things considered, you’re happy your name makes you unique.

You know that all of these things apply to you. You'll just never tell.

I get it... I'm pale.

1. At least I can't lose you in a crowd!

2. Oh my goodness your skin is like glow-in-the-dark.

3. Can't you just get fake tan?

4. Do you tan or just burn?

5. Your kids are going to look like Casper the Friendly Ghost!

6. *holds arm against your arm* Look how much darker I am compared to you!

7. *holds pale arm against another pale arm* Aw, at least you're darker than her!

8. I laid out by the pool almost every day over break!

9. I haven't used sunscreen since I was, like, five.

10. *adjusts selfie lighting to their face* Oops, where'd you go??

11. *after working out* Your face is SO red!

12. *wears white* Look! You're all one color!

13. You need to get some sun.

14. Aren't you excited for summer?

The struggle bus is real.

1. Child prodigies:

2. Hearing other musicians in the practice room next door and accepting that you will never be as talented as them:

3. That anxiety that takes over before every performance:

4. Taking a million 0 credit classes:

5. When there's a paper due the next day, but you have to attend yet another concert in order to pass a 0 credit class:

6. When your friends try to encourage you after a performance, even though you are criticizing everything in your mind:

7. Knowing that there's always that one professor during juries:

8. The oh-so-attractive band/choir uniforms:

9. Realizing that a college campus is maybe not the best atmosphere to finish your latest composition:

10. Hearing "Oh, you sing opera? I LOVE Phantom of the Opera!" for the hundredth time:

11. When people think finals week is a breeze for you.

12. When you're drowning in the stress that comes with 18+ credits (and not to mention all those 0 credit classes) and people ask you how you are:

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Because you need it in your life.

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6. holds arm against your arm Look how much darker I am compared to you!

7. holds pale arm against another pale arm Aw, at least you're darker than her!

10. adjusts selfie lighting to their face Oops, where'd you go??

11. after working out Your face is SO red!

12. wears white Look! You're all one color!