1. LBJ started this problem with the welfare system which has spent over $14 TRILLION raising a totally dependent FERAL army which hates us. Those who have paid taxes to support welfare have been vilified from every direction & they are more than a little restless about their current position. Many feel they re being taxed to support their ENEMY. Maybe it would be more efficient to drug test ALL people receiving benefits at any level & then remove those who are testing dirty. Take all the able bodies on welfare & force them to take VOCATIONAL classes, -—which they have to pay at least 10% of the costs for—and cut off their welfare when that class ends. They cannot sandbag & keep failing the class, either. It might be a 2 year program & at the end of those 2 years, they have to drop off the benefit gravy train. They have created a sub—society of total welfare recipients who will never go find a job on their own-—THEY DO NOT HAVE TO!!! WE keep supporting them!!!
2. The helicopter parents who insisted on EVERY SINGLE PARTICIPANT getting an award or a trophy just for showing up & being there hasn’t helped one little bit. We have morphed from the idea of creating kids who have to have self-esteem to kids who think they are ENTITLED to ANYTHING & EVERYTHING they can dream up as a whim. We have 5 year old kids with a cell phone to ‘call for help”. Why are 5 year old kids being left alone in the first place? We have kids who are more self-reliant being punished for being so. It just goes on & on.
3. Those little darlings are growing up to be useless employees-—they have no idea that from the first hour on whatever JOB they might be able to qualify for, their EMPLOYER will be judging them & rightfully so. Pants down to your knees, a face full of metal, a body full of ‘tattoo art’, and a constant use of your cell phone talking or texting isn’t high on the list for an employer to grab you. They are sorely inadequate at personal grooming, also.
Add to that the lack of attending your FREE 12 years of schooling & not having a clue about what you might have a natural ability to do for a vocation. Thanks to the ACLU, such ‘vocational skills testing’ is no longer allowed in the high schools. It was important when I was in high school & it was rarely wrong about what natural skills most of my classmates exhibited. Thanks, ACLU-—another removal from the USA society of a useful tool. Another nail in the coffin of the USA to produce people as strong as our parents & grandparents.
4. We seem to be hell-bent on breeding self-preservation out of our kids for the past 40 years or so. CALL FOR HELP is the mantra. LET SOMEONE SAVE YOU!!!!!! News flash: When SECONDS count-—the cops are only MINUTES away!!!
I won’t have or use a cell phone. I plan on moving about 2200 miles when I sell this property. I have a number of people telling me I HAVE to have a cell phone!!! How can I drive so far without one??? I have driven over 1 million miles in my lifetime, and I am NOT a truck driver. I am a Bookkeeper. One vehicle I bought new —1965 Pontiac station wagon — had over 444,000 miles on it when it went to Sweden for a restoration by a person happy to have it. My current 1 ton 1976 Chevy truck has about 350,000 miles on it, and I put about 260,000 of those miles on it. My 1979 Buick station wagon has over 205,000 miles on it & I put over 150,000 of those miles on it. I owned other cars in my lifetime, even a 1933 Chevy pickup truck-—a 1957 Pontiac—a 1959 Pontiac—a 1956 Thunderbird—a 1952 Chevy fastback—a 1972 Honda 600 car-—& others I cannot remember—and it all adds up to over a 1,000,000 miles-—WITHOUT a CELL PHONE!!! What a surprise. !!! For a female!!!!!!!
5. Kids today cannot do anything much in mechanical settings—not even change a flat tire-—CALL AAA!!
6. This administration is accepting persons with a felony history into our military!!! Just what we need!!!
We have intentionally made a society of WIMPS!!! We reap what we have sown.
Well... I’m still grateful for the miracle of automatic transmission :)