In an article titled "America: A Nation of Cheaters," by Casey Chalk, Chalk brings up the idea that the United States is made of people who cheat. For example, women freezing their eggs or having an abortion, or people watching pornography. It is cheating because humans have found a way to stop the natural processes of the human body or "short-circuit the essential relational nature of sexual interactions in favor of self-focus and self-gratification" (Chalk). Chalk makes a good point, as our bodies were not made of that type of treatment, and it is essentially "cheating" the system. If we're talking specifically cheating, there is also an entire business that formed just to provide forms of cheating to students of all ages. There are multiple applications or websites that allow students to avoid doing any of the hard work on their own. The majority of college students admitted to cheating at some point in high school, and Chalk even reminds the reader that parents are cheating nowadays to ensure that their children will be admitted into the college of their choosing. What people of this generation are not thinking about is how their cheating will effect the generations of the future. Our consistent cheating "in turn, cheats future generations of Americans. Our national deficit—the gap between what the government takes in through taxes and other sources of revenue and what it spends—is slated to reach $960 billion for fiscal year 2019. And projections indicate that gap will widen to $1 trillion for fiscal year 2020. Social Security allows Americans to start collecting at 62 years old, though the average retiree will live until 85. The original Social Security Act of 1935 set the minimum age for receiving full retirement benefits at 65, under the belief that, due to lower life expectancies, few people would be collecting for more than a few years. Today, it will be younger generations like mine that will be forced to pay for the exorbitant consequences of this reckless spending habit" (Chalk). Eventually, what goes around comes back around, so our generation should be thinking about how their actions will be effecting our country in the long run.
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