08-05-2004, 05:35 PM
Kids, generally speaking, are not being taught by their parents that there are consequences for their actions. The parents are too scared to be an authority figure to their kids and, instead, make every effort to be their friends. My parents weren't my friends...they were my parents and I obeyed them (most of the time, anyway). When I didn't, I was punished. Kids in my neighborhood get suspended for fighting or whatnot and don't even get grounded. Kids are suspended repeatedly without being expelled. What message does that send? What's going to happen when these kids get into the workforce, assuming they get a job somewhere other than McDonald's?
It's a vicious cycle. Lazy -> handouts -> more lazy. We need to make people start WORKING for what they get.
Like Silera's mention of Little House on the Prairie. In those days people worked to get ahead...they farmed if they wanted to eat, sewed if they wanted clothes, saved every nickel and dime for a bag of flour to make a special birthday cake. Nothing was handed to them.
We have it too easy now.
If something cataclysmic was to happen to the United States, how many survivors would actually have the gumption to survive and move on?
It's a vicious cycle. Lazy -> handouts -> more lazy. We need to make people start WORKING for what they get.
Like Silera's mention of Little House on the Prairie. In those days people worked to get ahead...they farmed if they wanted to eat, sewed if they wanted clothes, saved every nickel and dime for a bag of flour to make a special birthday cake. Nothing was handed to them.
We have it too easy now.
If something cataclysmic was to happen to the United States, how many survivors would actually have the gumption to survive and move on?
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