Proposed

“September 11th, 2001. What comes to mind is terrorism and a horrific event that sent our country into a war. What most people do not think about is the problems that it caused for many, if not all, of the states to lose funding for education. Oregon was among those states, and was affected greatly. In recent years, Oregon, the Rogue Valley in Southern Oregon in particular, has been greatly affected by a deficit in funding; causing budget cuts in sports programs, learning programs, and spending money. Not only has the Rogue Valley had these problems, but it has also experiences cuts in class time, school closures, and even closures of the public libraries for months at a time.”
This was the intro to my proposal for public good paper. My paper, obviously was about the lack of funding and budget cuts in Oregon after September 11th and the beginning of the war in Iraq. I chose this because it was close to home and there needs to be something done about it, or else the future of the students of Oregon are in huge trouble. People need to see what is happening to the education system around the nation, specifically the Rogue Valley in Oregon, and they need to start thinking about ways to solve the problem. My proposals were create a sales tax, to have our state senators propose a bill, or a ride along to have our timber money put back in Oregon, where it belongs, and call for another land bond measure for a tax levy to raise property tax slightly, and have that go directly to the library funds and school funds. However those are only a couple ways to fix the problems, if only people started acting on these, than we can minimize the problems.