Spring is here!

So the one thing that is associated with college is Spring Break.  What kind of words come to mind when you think spring break?  Relaxation. Parties.  Friends.  Mexico?  That last word, Mexico, passed through my mind several times while thinking of a place to spend my time off.  What I really wanted to do was go to Alcopolco, but it seems my plans have changed.  Since I am not in a fraternity, I don't have a large group of people to go with from SMU so I was thinking about re-uniting with all my friends from back home, but most of them have decided to just go back to Sacramento.  Boring was my thought.  I've got to go somewhere and relax for a while.  

I was talking to my roommate and he said that most of the "pledges" in his fraternity are going to go to South Padre, Texas.  He told me that it was a dirty place, but is actually where Spring Break originated.  I told him that I would definitely go.  it seems like it will be a good experience to go somewhere I've never been and might never get to experience again.  But isn't it near the border?  I'm pretty sure that it is just a quick walk into Mexico, where all the trouble seems to originate.  I looked up things about South Padre and found interesting information about college kids being kidnapped in Mexico during spring break.  I guess I won't cross the border!  

Are there any better places to go in Texas?

If America is in debt, then isn't every American in debt?

This semester I'm taking sociology and learning about all of the social problems in America, including corporate America.  One thing that I have been noticing is the amount of debt that it seems like the middle and lower classes in our society are facing.  During this time, it is even more of a pressing question: How do we get out of debt? Oh!! and wait, isn't America as a whole in debt?  I believe was around $48 trillion in 2007.  How are the individual citizens of America suppose to get out of debt and does this mean that every American is in debt as well?

I was having this argument with my room-mate and he showed me an interesting perspective on this whole "money" thing.  The video is called Zeitgeist.

It's really long, but what it basically says is that money isn't real, it means nothing.  This boggled me.  How is money not real? Isn't that the goal that almost everyone in our society is set on accomplishing?  I'm not saying that I believe in this "Zeitgeist" video, but it did present some interesting arguments.  Now, Siegel would argue that this video is just the king of rubbish that is clouding the internet and causing the downfall of humanity, but isn't it just another idea that overall contributes to our society?  I think that videos like this one are necessary in order to have a truly free sense of "America."  Why shouldn't everyone be able to make a video just like it to present their ideas?