Decline of the American Spirit

How much better off do you think we would all be as a society if parents started telling their children that if you want something you have to work for it. And if you don't get it, well, that is life. We are all born equal, but what we achieve in life is up to us, not our government, our employer, our friends or family. I have raised 3 children, the last of which just finished high school a year ago, and it simply was amazing to me the things that she was told at her high school by counselors, and from college recruiters. They blow so much smoke up these kids asses it is scary.

We have raised a generation of children that think it is their God given right to succeed. All they have to do is get up in the morning. Over that past couple years fewer and fewer high school seniors are even looking for work. It fell below 50% for the first time ever in the last couple years. When I was a child if you weren't good enough to play, you didn't get to play, period, end of story. You got to be on the team and you got to practice and you had the opportunity to better yourself. Cream rises to the top. Nowadays, we don't keep score, and little johnny gets to play regardless of his skills or ability. He never has to practice, there is no reason to try and better himself because he is going to play regardless. A generation of entitlement.

We just elected someone who promised change and hope, and then he turns around and expands all these different entitlement programs. Can't pay that home you shouldn't have bought to begin with, that's okay, we will bail you out. Change and hope, I don't think so. We are just going to create more people that rely on the government. The end result is you destroy the American spirit of achievement. You take away any incentive to better yourself through hardwork. Imagine that there were people that actually though Obama was going to buy them cars and houses when he got elected, because they didn't have them and that is what they thought he had promised during the campaign.

Our country was built on the successes of the individual, not on the government. History has taught us very clearly that government is not the solution, it is the problem.

Teach your children to rely on themselves, achieve, work hard and prosper. People will succeed and people will fail, that is the way of life. We don't need to be the United Welfare States of America.