A Rant for February Twenty Fifth
I so wanted this post to be true, but the main ingredient for the actions you state require the “parent” to actually be a parent…
just a start on commenting about this post:
If you have children, teach them what you want them to believe.
There are a good amount of teenage and welfare mothers that are teaching their children exactly what they believe, that being it is someone else’s responsibility to provide a home, food, clothing and health care, and it should not involve any costs or labor on their part. I think this lesson is being taught effectively.
Show them how to achieve the things they want.
The lack of principle, the ease of acquiring the largess of American good will is how the children of these mothers is shown.
The problem is now that the people that raised this version of parents were never actually parents to begin with. I’m not saying that this is true for all the current crop of parents, or even that they are the majority of the current generation, but there are enough that are, that they become “models” for the next generation.
The question becomes “Why should I work and bring home less than what the government will give me for doing nothing?”. That seems to be the current model.
NostraD, I guess my rant was pointed at people like us who are horrified by how our society is being undermined and think they can’t influence the future. My point is the biggest changes they can make are local and personal. As for the hopeless people you describe, they are some of the obstacles we have to work around.
“Why should I work and bring home less than what the government will give me for doing nothing?”
Thirty years ago, I worked for a rent-to-own company, many of the clientele had exactly that attitude, and their kids were picking it up really well. And they would brag about how they gamed the system.
I think they’re kidding themselves or really not even that. Living on the dole is becoming a domesticated animal who eventually will be harvested one way or another.