“The problem is ...at this point, it is not just 0bama. It is all those people who voted for him too.”
That is so sad. There are those of us who teach our children to be honest and thrifty by paying their debts. Then the gov’t (nanny) comes along and throws that all to hell.
The communists are doing exactly what they promised by incrementally destroying the social and economic norms that made us the greatest country on Earth for many years.
It’s heart-breaking to see the USA swirling in the toilet.
It is sad. I remember back in the bad old 60’s and 70’s while I was in school that parents and teachers pounded into our heads that we could “pay now and play later” by studying and going to college to train in a realistic field, and keeping ourselves legally “clean” or, if we chose to goof off at school, do drugs or otherwise get ourselves in trouble, we could “play now but pay later” through lost job opportunities and lack of education. That has totally been turned around. Now those who decided to “play now” demand those who “paid now” foot the bill to raise the standard of living for the “play now”. It totally turns around conventional wisdom.
Turning American values around has been going on a long time though. Take a look at Disney's scrubbing of the old fairy tales meant to teach real values and consequences of poor decisions. The most egregious to me is the Little Mermaid where, instead learning a hard life lesson, Ariel gets her prince and lives happily ever after. Disney has totally ruined the original messages of those tales in favor of feel-good, kids-are-brilliant-and-parents-are-idiots tripe.
There are many other examples of values turned upside-down: the entrepreneur is now demonized and the homeless beatified; the decent hardworking kid is ignored or even vilified while the pregnant druggie is showered with benefits and attention; blue-collar (i.e., labor union members) are heroic while white-collar people are greedy; broken families are awesome while intact families are highly dysfunctional below the surface. I know in the Bible it says that in the last days men shall call good evil and evil good. We are at that point.