[Nachum]

Full title: NFL star Michael Oher echoes Newt Gingrich: I didn’t see anybody going to work every day

[onyx]

Newt Gingrich for President Ping List!

[onyx]

[BreezyDog]

For Calvin

[Tex-Con-Man]

The monstrous lineman from “The Blind Side”.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Over the years I heard some amazingly lame excuses why someone wasn’t coming to work. The importance of dependability is a foreign concept to many people.

[sarasmom]

Everyone attending my public elementary school had a “job” of some kind in the 5th-6Th grades.
I still have my little brass “service” medal.

It was way cool to be one of the few selected to work in the kitchen lunchroom behind the counter, serving food portions or washing trays and dishes.
It meant you could be trusted to work around the special industrial equipment, as opposed to merely wiping tables, and emptying trash cans.
And it sure beat washing the chalkboards or beating erasers for the next day, since you had an admiring audience, even if you had to wear the ugly hair nets.
Everyone took their turn with the orange safety belts, loading and unloading the younger children on and off the school busses.
But only a select few had the double belts, and were real designated safety monitors!

We had segregated schools back then, but the black kids did the same things at their schools that the white kids did.
We just lived in different parts of town.
As kids, we didn't know one part was better or worse than the other, since we were all mostly poor.

[bjorn14]

Reminds me of a great Thatcher line from the movie ‘Iron Lady’ “Feelings? Don’t ask me how I’m feeling. Ask me what I’m thinking. Thoughts lead to actions, actions lead to habits, habits lead to your destiny”

[Publius6961]

The underlying problem is universal among the "entitlement" culture. It started with irresponsible adults.

The moment that the whine that certain jobs are "demeaning" was legitimized, the floodgates opened to create a whole new group of useless pets.

The ones bearing the cost in money and criminal activity had no voice in the matter.

"Take a job or starve" is the only path to a return of sanity.