Posted on 10/07/2007 11:37:32 AM PDT by rellimpank
The generation now passing from the scene had many flaws, no doubt. But they grasped something viscerally which no amount of book-learning seems to be able to inject in today's generation: They understood where the nation's wealth came from.
But saunter into any shop down at the mall this week and try to ask the "sales clerk" if they stock a product you're looking for. Wait and wait as she continues blabbing to her friends over her cell phone. Do you suppose most young people taking such jobs today understand the capital that has to be accrued from private investors who risk losing their shirts, waiting years for any earnings as they build up a mining or lumber or ranching operation so that brave men (yes, still mostly men) can risk life and limb laboring in dangerous and unpleasant conditions to wrest the wealth of natural resources from the earth?
If the trucks stopped delivering boxes of product to the back door and she lost her job, do you think it would occur to her to regret and rescind her knee-jerk support of scorched-earth "environmental" policies that seek to shut down the mines and the lumber mills, to force the cattle off the land?
Why would she, when her "education" has consisted of a full-court press of hatred and revulsion at "greedy capitalists who don't want to pay their fair share of taxes to help the less fortunate," memorizing little ditties about how the greedy miners and industrialists "want to pollute our air and soil" -- when she can see no link between our resource industries and our manufacturing industries and her weekly paycheck?
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Apparently the generation in between the generation now passing from the scene and today’s generation did an abysmal job of raising today’s generation.
The generation passing from the scene voted in obscenely expensive entitlement programs, as well as standing idle while the traditional cultural identity of their country was thrown away.
Yep, it was the AARP, ....oh, and New Math, yep New Math, that’s it.
The cell phone thing really gets to me. I had a 15 year old female patient and her mother in the office Friday. The girl had posion ivy. We have a sign saying no cell phone use. There she was yacking away with her boyfriend. Her mother telling her to turn to phone off and speak to the doctor. I had her seen and the RX written and the door open and she was still yacking on the phone.
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