This Country is Screwed.

[jimbob200521]

I just dropped in on this thread and started reading a few replies so I am not totally caught up with this thread so forgive me if I make an arse out of myself!

Originally Posted by Shotgun Wedding

Damn right. You had great parents like most of us on this site have had. But lots of people my age made horrible parents, just horrible. I am first generation born in Canada from my Dutch immigrant parents. My parents worked, had little but worked. They passed that on to me and my brother, who without bragging are very successful but work out butts off.

That is not true for so many. But this is. These parents are losers. Apparently it's pretty easy to have kids, pretty damn hard to raise them. But it's not the governments fault, it's our generation. Our neighbours, friends etc.

Can we blame the government for feeding them? Maybe. But I'd hate to have these shmucks breaking into my property to steal my stuff every time they want a hit of meth. Anyway, this ain't going to solved without involuntary sterilization! Just sayin.

This generation (and the next, and the next, etc) are I believe (by in large) the tipping point in our country. Entitled, spoiled little brats who think they don't have to work because the government, or mommy and daddy, or the state, or someone else will take care of 'em. My father worked his a$$ off for what he has, my brother and I the same. We went to work whether we liked it or not (and lemme tell ya, sometimes we did not). My dad did for the most part instill one "upgrade" on his kids that he wasn't able to make happen. He was a physical laborer in one form or another his whole life. He started in construction and eventually, after many years, was able to create his own woodworking business and support his family from it. He instilled on his two boys to use there brains more than brawn and that is mostly what we have done (my brother more than I, I still have a job that requires both brains and some muscles but I'm getting there ).

Anyway (that got more long winded that I meant it to) my roundabout point was guess what happened to us if we got too far out of line? Let's just say I got my arse spanked once or twice as a kid and do I hate my dad for it? Not one bit. Nowadays if you spank your child and they cry foul about it you would probably end up in jail for child abuse, be the internet's next victim, and god knows what else. Nowadays kids sit on their tablets, iPhones, computers, etc and waste the days away not knowing how exciting it is to climb a tree, or build a snow fort, or play sword fighting with sticks, or play in a creek, or dangerously scale an old barn with a rope, or a million other things. They text instead of talk (which I'm guilty of too, from time to time). I don't know, I just get so annoyed with the way things are. I know change is inevitable but some things shouldn't change too much. I guess it all comes down to lacking discipline. Sniffy nose? Call off work/school. Stub your toe? Call off work/school. New video came coming out? Call off work/school on release night. THAT'S NOT HOW IT SHOULD BE. Hell, I've worked where I'm at for going on 5 years and I can count on one hand the times I've taken a sick day. Sure I wake up and debate taking a day off every once in a while but do I do it? Nope, because I have a sense of responsibility. Responsibility to take care of a community of 80+ residents, responsibility to be there for my team if they need me (as I type this at work ).

Anywho, I could go on but I'm sure I've gone on long enough. Cub on, good buddies!