It used to be that families took care of each other. As many as three generations would live in a house at one time. When the parents went to work, the grandparents took care of the children. When the grandparents were unable to take care of themselves, the children and grandchildren took care of them. Now, we send our elderly to retirement and nursing homes because it’s more convenient, the government pays for it, and we complain about our high taxes.
We used to get up early in the morning, make breakfast for our children and send them to school with a lunch and snacks. But when parents stopped doing that, the government ordered that school cafeterias be built, workers hired, and now there are many districts in the country where children aren’t even allowed to bring food in from home (no peanut butter sandwiches and no peanut butter and jelly in some districts). Often, children are fed breakfast and lunch in school. There’s talk of also providing them with dinner. What’s next, feeding them on the weekends and during summer when they’re not in school. What is that saying about us?
My grandparents used to walk five miles each way to go to school, but now we bus children if they live more than a mile away. We have buses, drivers, mechanics and managers. The cafeteria and bus service are paid for with our school taxes. We complain about how high taxes are, and our children are becoming morbidly obese. Of course, there are other causes for obesity, but think how much exercise children could get if they walked farther.
Any time we abdicate any of our responsibilities, we create a hole. The government fills that hole and makes us pay for it. We may not like the way they fill it, but we’ve lost the freedom to do it ourselves, our own way. Eventually, the government will take control of our lives completely, making all of our decisions for us. The government believes its citizens are too incompetent to make decisions for ourselves, so the Nanny Government must make them for us. Of course the catch is Americans must pay for these “wise” decisions that have turned out to be no so wise. Soon will lose all of our freedoms and will become wards of the state. We will have abdicated our responsibilities because it was easier to let someone else do it. Easier to write a check and not become personally involved.
One day soon, the government will decide what will be done with our elderly parents. The government will raise our children and we will simply be bystanders. The government will decide when and if you will live, when and how you will die. Don’t believe it? What about the fifteen bureaucrats who will decide what care you get with Obamacare? What about the fact that we already have euthanasia in two states? The government will decide what school your children will go to and what they will do for a living. It will be for the glory of the state, not the glory of God. The state will have replaced God and you will find that there no longer is such a thing as religion. In the end, we’ll simply be the biological parents and get to visit our children on special occasions. Maybe weekends.
We’re slowly becoming the Soviet Union. Are we really sure we won the Cold War? Have enemies accomplished this from within? Who are they and how did they do it without us knowing?
Conservatives want people to be responsible. Liberals want people to feel no guilt. Parents with no rights? In Canada, the government has become a co-parent. Could it happen here? Have your children threatened you by saying they’ll call Child Protective Services if you really do spank them? Have the police and CPS shown up on your doorstep for bruises your child received from falling off of their bicycle? Have the Food Police at your child’s school made you pay for a lunch they made your child eat because yours supposedly wasn’t in accordance with FDA standards? What do you know about the U.N. Treaty of the Child?
Don’t expect me to do all of your work for you. That’s way too easy. Please do your own research. That way, you’ll remember it more and become just as outraged as I am.
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I just responded to a Liberal poster on Common Dreams who was bemoaning the fact that there are so many poor and the rich don’t care about them. I reminded him that while there are many who are poor because life has indeed run over them and they need our help, there are many more poor that Liberalism has created by insisting on fornication without responsibility. The Playboy Generation and the mentality that went with the Sexual Revolution of the 1960′s has given us black communities where 70+% of the children born are born out of wedlock. Families, and the kind of responsible living which is outlined in the above article, are simply unknown in the barrio.
You can thank Liberalism for a lot of the welfare mentality that is sinking our country.
@Andrew
Like most of the “silent majority” I spent most of my life working and raising a family and never gave the commies a second thought. After all, they were “over there”. The first time I even voted was for G.W. over Al Gore because I was waking up to what was really going on in our country. Now at 69 I see how deeply entrenched these communist/lib/democrats have dug into our political, educational, union and govt. systems. While we were just living our lives these people were pursuing an agenda. Simply put, there are no good or moderate democrats anymore. They must be voted out from local, state and national positions if we are to save the country. Even our military is becoming polluted with their ilk. Hopefully like RR, R/R can come to the aid of our country.
Our government has made people into couch potatoes and the feel sorry for me. The welfare system was developed to help people but not support them forever. Some famlies have grandparents who were on welfare, parents on welfare and now the kids are on welfare and back when things were simple and we could take our lunch to school of decent food and not the garbage they serve in schools today. We helped each other and did not depend on the government. My mom canned vegetables, mean, fruit and anything else she could. We didn’t have game boys or cell phones or anything else like that and we had a good life. Welfare back then was for people who needed it and not lazy people who throught they were too good to work for minimum wage. These people feel that somebody owes them and they will take and take and take. I liked my life growing up when everything was great, we ate good food, we were healthy and we had a much better education that the kids get today even with the free breaksfast and lunch and cell phones etc. The government should only allow a healthy able bodied person to stay on welfare 2 years and then kick them off regardless of if they have a job or not. No more free ride in this country.
somethin happened to we the people when the biggest socialist we had ever know got 4 terms and sold us out to international interests most do not know the real life of F.D.R.,the republican party has for yrs tried to stay the flow of socilaism in our govt but for some reason some people become demacrats because they want someone elses stuff or they want control over their neighbor..i agree with welfare programs was to help a family through a job lay off or job loss,it was never truely design for generations of families to live off the system without ever holding a job..one of the biggest cons ever played on blacks is the projects,look how alot of em look like third world countries with gangs fighting over a street corner and they live in the same apartment their gran parents lived in and it was just passed down from family to family..what most do not know about the projects and govt housing and welfare it was mainly designed to enslave blacks to the federal govt and the democratic party,i tell em to wake up and look how the federal govt keeps the native americans enslaved on reservation that are far worse the the projects,this is wrong but people have learned to just go with the flow like sheep to the slaughter
Hmm, Our nation turned to the democratic party during the Great Depression. When people were hungry, jobless, homeless and broke they blamed the wealthy that retained their wealth at the expense of the common working guy and his family.
What most of them didn’t realize is that a few “crooks” manipulated everything to raise the price of stock and then pulled out to let it crash. But that’s really when people started relying upon the government for food, jobs and Soc. Sec.
My great grandfather, John Sperry was a preacher/farmer. Poppy fed every bum that came along. They must have marked the house or the fencepost because his ten children didn’t have much to eat after all of the “guests” were taken care of. My grandmother and my great aunts used to talk about those days. How they were sent out “to work” as housekeepers in the city to send money back home. How they didn’t have shoes and the briars in the cow pasture would cut up their feet.
Those were terrible days that my grandmother and one of her sisters never got over. That woman stocked food and clothing to the extreme, afraid that something was going to happen until the day she died. But she taught me to be self-sufficient. To be prepared and I’m grateful for that.
I come from a long line of Democrats. I’m the first Republican in my family. Have been before I was old enough to vote because I saw bondage and slavery in the “Government’s Help”. I also had a good Government and Economics professor in high school during a stint at a Seminary in TN.
During our last year there, a Senator came to the campus and spoke to all of the families there, to warn us that the government had a plan to take away the children and that IF the vote passed in the Bible Belt, then it would become national policy.
This was when the first push for two income families had come along. The media was pushing it and pushing it. In fact, I remember telling my mom that they were trying to brainwash everybody into leaving the kids alone so that they could pass that law.
The plan was this…The children would be housed and educated by the government and the children would get to come home for the holidays. School would last year round.
Of course, everybody in the Bible Belt broke out in an uproar over it and the law never saw the light of day again. However, little baby steps have been taken over the years to ensure that the tenets of that bill passed. It’s Hitler’s Youth all over again.
But, you ask, How did all of these people become dependent upon the government?
Social Engineering, programming, predictive programming. brainwashing, subliminal messages
Subliminals still exist just watch Big Bang at the end and the flash of the page is still picked up by the mind even though you can’t read it. Commercials played over and over and over again, if seen enough times can influence our thinking if we don’t reject it at the door of our minds.
You have to make a decision to reject the stuff, if not, you’ve accepted it.
We are taught in public schools at a young age what the government wants us to believe. Don’t think for a moment that what a school teacher says to her students can’t change that child’s worldview or political and religious view forever.
How many generations of latch-key kids have come home after sitting under a teacher that taught socialism and atheism all day, to sit in front of a television set and have it reinforced through cartoons?
There’s your answer.
You are exactly right. I’ve really started “paying attention” to what is on television and in the movies more lately than ever before. The subconscious messages being pushed at all of us are unbelievable. I no longer watch many of the programs I used to. I opened my eyes to what the underlying messages were, and didn’t like it very much.
Our schools are now a bastion of liberal philosophy, beginning with the “free lunch” programs. I grew up poor, but I always managed to have enough to eat because my parents were responsible people and often gave up something they wanted in order to put food on the table. They NEVER took a handout, even from their own families. Being poor wasn’t something I look back on with bad feelings. It was a fact of life, and I learned that you have to work hard to make it in life.
Sadly, we now have more than one generation who feel that the world OWES them everything they want. My sister taught school for a time in a poor part of the city where she lived. She saw kids being dropped off, by parents driving expensive vehicles, wearing expensive clothing and jewelry, who got free breakfast and lunch. If they were in such dire straits as to qualify for free lunches, how is it that their parents appeared to be so affluent? Our welfare and entitlement system (and I do not include Social Security for retired people an entitlement) is out of control. Our country, and the world for that matter, is a mess. When communism broke down in the USSR, I thought maybe the world had learned a lesson…..evidently, it has NOT.
This article hits the nail on the head . Should we support the actual poor ? Of course we should but there are so many takers who cheat our helpfulness that it takes us into insolvency. Ask not what your country can do for you ; Ash what they can give you for free. Kennedy must be spinning in his grave in sorrow.