If I Were Rich...

First thing i would do i save money. Cause If I'm that rich i plan to stay that way. I would spread out my money in different banks and stocks to prevent from one catastrophic thing happening i would still be able to support my self as well as having a safe with cash and gold. Besides that I would save money for my children in and put away trust for my family and/or children. I would Build an beautiful house in my favorite city and a couple more houses in different places that I would like to live so i could travel there all the time.

Besides my investments and multiple houses i would still want to live a very simplistic lifestyle. I've always thought if i was well off I would find a way to not let anyone know. I wouldn't want my kids to be spoiled and selfish. I want them to understand the value of a dollar and how not as many people are as lucky. So most likely i would raise them thinking they weren't that rich just that they have enough money for vacations and college. Then when they are adults I'd explain how much money we really had and if they were mad all well but hopefully they'd be grateful.

Columbus day: Celebrating historical inaccuracy since 1937.

Columbus day, too me is truly a pointless holiday. We celebrate  Columbus Day and the discovery of america and we are always told that Christopher Columbus discovered america and all these great things about him, but more of the stuff we here is completely historically inaccurate. So it's slightly baffling to me why we have a holiday for him considering he didn't do much..

Columbus was trying to find a path the the West Indies for trading that would make him rich. He wasn't trying to find the new world, they didn't even realize how big the world was. Funny thing is when he went back he was still trying to prove his calculations and he said the world was shaped like a pear. Besides him being stubborn the fact that every one says he discovered america's is completely wrong.  One: he landed in the Caribbean, not actually America.; Two: The Asiatic Peoples that who we call Native Americans had already been living there for some time. Just cause They didn't know people lived in the other hemisphere of the world should not mean that when we found out about it that it was the "discovery of the new world" when it was already there with people happily living there. Needless to say the historical and political incorrectness of this holiday just adds to the 'stupid american' stigma that we already have.

The scariest thing that's ever happened to me...

The thing about fear is it's different for each person so what one person may consider scary may not be frightening to another. And honestly I can't think of anything truly scary because as we get older i suppose we don't get scared in the same way as we do as kids. For example when i was a kid the two scariest things to me where haunted houses and roller coasters, now i love both because they really aren't scary and there exciting. Besides scary dreams which isn't even technically something that happens to you i don't get scared anymore unless it deals with punishment for a mistake i made. But even that is a completely different type of fear more out of worry rather then just being scared.
With all that being said i honestly can't think of "the scariest" thing that has ever happened to me because i become afraid for different reasons now. But in the spirit of  Halloween I remember when i was a little kid after we were done trick-or-treating we would drive around to find haunted houses cause that was the most entertaining thing for my parents besides steeling my candy. Most weren't that bad just with trash bag maze with people in masks popping out, but one stick in my head to this day. It was in a garage and the people said it was a mystery and you had to find where the grandma's glasses where hidden. There where all these old looking things and baby cribs in one corner and a bed in the far end of the room a bed and other furniture. A guy in a mask was leading my mom and my sister and i close behind her through the 'house' and about half way through when i realized there was a person or two in the far end of the room it freaked me out and i wouldn't move forward. the guy lead us back out and i'll always remember how that haunted house looked but i can't quiet remember why i thought it was 10x as scary as any other haunted house.

so that's my scary story. :)

Should Higher Education be paid for?

Well I think so, but only partially. I personally would find it very very beatifically if college was paid for by the government because like many other students who aren't as fortunate to have a college fund we have to rely on scholarships and student loans. There are lots of bright kids that just accept the fact that they don't have money for college anyways and decide not to even try. As for me I just know i have to work ten times as hard so i can get scholarships because being in debt from student loans doesn't sound like to much fun. I would be ecstatic if someone told me my college would be completely paid for because then i could just focus on the school and work it self not if i can afford it.
The only problem is that there is a couple of down sides to "free college". Some people will take advantage of it like they already do with our lower level school systems. It's great for those who want to succeed but those that are just there because they have to be would be wasting the time and resources of the colleges. Another problem is with our financial system can barely support the school system we have much less pay for college for a bunch of kids. But the problem also lies with the colleges continually raising their prices. So this makes it much harder for people to go to college considering that college and other forms of higher education are currently not free or paid for.