Satire A College Degree A Step Up The Economic Ladder,...

â€Å"A College Degree-A Step up the Economic Ladder, Or Your First Step Into Debt?† We go to college, hoping to better our future. We hope a degree will take us from cleaning the bathroom at the bank, to working behind a big oak desk in an office with a view. We all want to obtain a nice house with a little white picket fence, but is that dream obtainable or is the road to happiness paved with debt that we will never over come? The Onion uses satire to make light of a very serious subject, debt. Satire is a type of literary ridicule that uses humor (â€Å"Satire†). Without a college degree your economic options are very limited, and the cost to go to school is overwhelming yet many live with debt their entire lives. Many of us can relate to the feeling of suffocating with debt. What is the benefit of going to college and scoring a job that pays more if it still isn’t enough to pay off your student loans? We have become a society that lives off of debt and our ca llous attitude about paying off that debt is leaving many in financial ruin. In the Onion article, â€Å"Woman Worried Student Loans Could Prevent Her From One Day Owning Entirely Different Kind of Crippling Debt,† describes Ashley’s overwhelming student loan debt. Like Ashley, many college will not be able to afford any other debts. The high monthly payments on student loans in excess of $50,000 will prevent her from ever buying a home, a new car, or taking out business loans (â€Å"Woman†). The humor in this article is that we are a