Posted on 02/09/2013 5:08:55 AM PST by Kaslin
I don’t think that is anything new. I come from a small town that had only 3000 people when I grew up there. I probably only knew 100, if that many
And arguably, the 19th amendment as well.
I think we can all agree that we have the best government money can buy.
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
You just made me snicker.
Just 20? Number is definitely the correct number one problem.
LBJ, sorry as he was and detrimental as his Great Society was, did not directly destroy the American family. He did not even destroy the black family, he simply made it easier to do things for which they had the perpensity for a maternal lead culture and male irresponsibility and It Takes A Village mentality. The “other” kids saw the Great Society kids getting away with everything in school and life and emulated, thus independent and self sufficient America in general began slipping away.
Agreed! Otherwise he’s made a pretty good list. Alas.
I was thinking more of a sense of alienation that may exist rather than whether or not you actually knew the people. Our sense of the world and what is normal may be different.
I’ve noticed that people today can’t even be bothered to be polite or friendly even in situations where it is professionally wise to keep as many lines out there and open. There’s a sort of ‘leave me the hell alone’ quality to most people in passing.
"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for." --Will Rogers
Totally agree with your post.
Our inner city schools are deficient, but their “raw material” is 80% bastard children.
Another example: in a decent suburb here in Indiana (where my daughter is the teacher) the 3rd grade class has only 42% with intact family (birth mother and father both living in the home).
All are true but #1 stands out to be the seed of the problems.
All are true but #1 stands out to be the seed of the problems.
When I was growing up, it became easier to show good manners than to endure corrections when I was rude or careless. In time it became automatic behavior.
I don't think that training is practiced much anymore.
Such mannerly behavior has been absent from New York for a hundred years and has crept like a metathesised cancer to the rest of the country.
I first saw this cartoon on my Facebook page posted by a former student, although the “government” side was labeled “the rich.” I went off on a rant about how stupid the picture was... after all, the guy with the bucket of fish is rich, actually. And I pointed out that the picture was typical Marxist crap about the rich getting wealthy off the labor of the poor.
However...
Your version makes perfect sense. The government produces nothing and can only get what it gets by taking it from the productive. If you’re the person who improved this picture, you get an A for the day. When I get home I’ll post on my own FB page, much to the annoyance of some, pleasure to others. :)
nope not mine
It ain’t so much how the trough gets empty as how it gets filled.
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