The following are my predictions on cost cutting by states and federal government in the coming years.
Some idea's that have come of age and some that will take hold and blossom.
Please put your own Predictions in and comment on the ones I have mentioned.
And feel free to disagree or agree, this is an open and fair diary about the changes that we will see in the coming years.
Prediction 1.
Education will switch to online for students, cutting costs of high school and college tuitions by thousands and insuring an education for any and all that want one..
I look at the cost of the maintenance of the realestate of these huge institutions that we call Colleges and shudder at the cost of maintenance. Why would we continue to use an out dated system to fill class rooms with students that could just as easily attend class online.
I also look at the online enrollments that increased by 15% this last quarter and ground campuses that had a 1% increase.
SEE A TREND? Why pay for a Administration, Buildings, books, paper, supplies as well as heating and cooling when we are able to teach people on line.
Then look at the profits that are produced by online Universities that don't have the overhead.....
Prediction 2
The end of Newspapers, Books and Magazines as we know them.
This has been happening across the U.S.for the past few years. Readership is all but gone in most newspaper markets. Books will be a thing of the past, being replaced by the Kindle, the ebook reader and the Papyrus by Samsung. So much for this computer chip thingy being a passing fade. So what will we do with the library's and books, magazines and all those humans who wrote for a living in the news industry?
I guess they will write and we will pay a read per charge royalty when we download or access the information.
Prediction 3.
We will all be working a 32 hour week.
Don't laugh, I know that we were told this same story by the teachers in High School, ( You know the same teachers that went to those crumbling Universities to get that Degree that they are still paying for, after reading newspapers, magazines and books made of paper)The same teachers that said it was physically impossible to run ot of oil and also said the planet was getting colder...in the 70's.. remember?
We will all have to work 32 hours if we all want to have work.
Prediction 4
Barack H Obama will be reelected in 2012.
We have not had the honor of having such a great man in the White House since FDR. Obama is gets more done in a month, than most Presidents do in a year.
He has imposed time limits on congress, brought about change by bringing in order and may save America from the one true threat that has plagued the country for decades....Itself.
WE MET THE ENEMEY AND THEY IS US!