BNAY - Tiamuk, Challenge #5

My Tiamuk challenge was: "Provide a write-up that describes how community debt will affect the youth in the future.  What are some ways that can either help reduce debt, or how can a community avoid going into debt. The length of your replies should be roughly 2 or 3 paragraphs." Here is my write-up:

"Debt is the simplest way of adding weight to the future to ease the load of today". Realistically, debt has the greatest affect on the future and it's inhabitants (the ones who end up cleaning it up afterwards) rather than the subjects who are creating the debt in the future. The youth are the future and we will be the ones having to clean it up and take care of it once it catches up with our community. Our communities should concentrate on smart investments to take and keep us out of debt. Because investments are a great way to do that, though it is and can be a great gamble, are the best option towards battling debt. Although you need to make smart investments that ultimately end in revenue, because that's what the world runs off, "revenue"! So is there any better way to go about it?

         The youth are the future of our communities, wether you're in a city, town or reservation. There's no way of getting around it, it's simple and evident. The youth will grown and develop to take place of the elders who grow too far to continue the role they are partaking in. So what happens when your community decides to use its money to make bad investments which result in debt? The youth that tale their place are the ones ultimately having to take care of it, because of the amount of debt we've fallen into! It's an under looked yet great issue that surrounds all of us everyday. Debt is a serious problem and the youth of today have to figure out how to invest intelligently with a vision of the future and create revenue and slowly carry their people out of debt.

         Our community leaders need to battle this thing one step at a time, in the sense that this is no small problem that can be taken care of with one big gamble that will take us out of debt and do good for the community with one (or multiple) "big swings". Community leaders should be concentrating on the future and take a focus on the action plan one step at a time. You can't take down a sky-scraper with "one big swing". You have to set explosives at the base of the building on the inside and implode it, which is literally taking the building down one step at a time. We need to look at debt the same way. Communities should handle debt one smart investment at a time, cumulating revenue at a slow, yet effective pace. Which in the end results in reducing debt, without further increasing it. 

         The only way to stay out of debt is to at the same time battle it. Just like imploding a building, continue to take it one step at a time. Staying out of debt requires that we make smart investments and create awesome, intelligent opportunities for our community to continue to overcome and avoid going into debt. Such as funding a small (but safe, secure and promising) business or entrepreneur. We will not overcome debt by putting big money into big projects that become dead or unfinished or just unsuccessful. 

         We should never put our problems of today onto the plate of tomorrow, because frankly that's just lazy. We need to look at it now and realize the realism that debt presents right in-front of us on our doorstep. Debt is stubborn, annoying and can pack a huge punch. So why not kick it off the door step and move onto brighter days of a debt free, economically aspiring, prospering community? Investing with a worry of the future and a smart, business look will accomplish this. We can fight and take care of debt. Community leaders, fight it today. Youth continue to fight it tomorrow. Debt will not continue to have a grasp on our communities.