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I recently received an e-mail from my brother advising me that the Occupy Wall Street movement is an example of my generations poor parenting practices coming home to roost. The premise was that our children are spoiled, envious people who feel entitled to what others have to work for. They supposedly feel this way because we told them that they were special. We gave them meaningless participation trophies instead of making them compete for prizes. The discussion of age appropriateness never came up. So lets look at one of the alternatives to this permissive coddling. The implication is that it would be better to tear children down and tell them they don't have a chance in hell to better themselves in the name of preparing them for the "real world"? Let me tell you something there is only one thing any kid needs to learn...NEVER QUIT!!!. The winner is the guy who is the last one standing. If you want to hand your food to the guy with his hand out and then you starve to death, guess who will be the last guy standing. Your reward may be in heaven, but the earth will only suck more as a result, because learning from an example like that takes...well more than 2000 years, that's for sure! Opportunity has opened up to the minority dejour at the expense of the Anglo-european folks who are so bent on leveling the proverbial playing field because "it's only fair" right? Has humanity evolved to a better place because of our sacrifice? I don't see it... but maybe we are too mired in the muck right now to see the great stride forward we have made as human beings.
In the last republican debate it was noted that Steve Jobs bitched about how impossible it is to find 30,000 American Engineers... that is not to say he can't find "American Made" engineers, it's just that they all flew home after their student visa's expired. Why couldn't Steve and other brainiacs like him connect the dots and see that when the foreigners fill our colleges and take the seats that our kids once occupied, then they are the ones that will be educated. Our brilliant politicians think the solution is to "staple a green card to any Visa carrying foreigner who graduates from one of OUR Universities...PRICELESS. Yeah it's my opinion that our kids are fucked up because we have bent over and taken it up the ass from every person who claims to be marginalized in any way. We did it because OUR parents instilled a sense of decency in us...we did it because of our belief in a religion that taught that..."there is no greater love than that a man lay down his life for his friend...or better yet... his enemy." We did it because we got all mixed up about how that statement jives with the one that says "don't throw your pearls before swine"... or the one about the bridesmaids who saved their oil and refused to share it with the foolish ones who used theirs up and were unprepared when the bridegroom appeared." funny how so few saw fit to emphasize those little gems while preaching the virtue of selflessness. Some of us chose to go the extra mile and keep reading on our own, but more often than not, people just listened to the bible bangers within and outside of the Church with their own personal and financial agendas disguised as "Social Justice". Now we wake up to see we made a huge mistake. If our kids have half the sense I believe they do, they will move forward and learn from our mistakes not play victim to them...
I'm just say'in
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