I am a teenager of the recession. I speak for the students who pass in the hallways Monday through Friday. We are the ones affected by the budget cuts for the school. We are the product of hardship.  Some of us come from poverty and others from power. But all of us are affected by recession. I hear my parents talk of the bailouts for the car dealers. I hear of the businesses struggling to make a profit. I have been to Boston and New York and seen countless homeless and jobless people crying out for help on the streets.

All across America people are buzzing with word of the recession. 

Why haven’t we stopped it? I don’t mean to criticize the plans Americans have made, but they aren’t working fast enough. We are very much in debt, from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles. I want to say that you need to take better care of the economy, but I’m not sure how much you would listen to the words of a kid. 

Think of the children you are giving the economy to. How are we supposed to deal with the economic crisis that our elders themselves could not fix? We don’t know what we’re supposed to do. How are we supposed to handle the problems with the economy? Teach us how! 

After all, today’s children are the future of America.

Cadie Fowler, 13

Scarborough