Category Archives: America

Robots…

Posted on 2011/11/29 by

Please download free healthcare, college and future employment into my memory banks...

If I’m guilty of anything it is my passion for the things I believe, some more than others. Consequently, when I look at the big picture there is always one common thread. No matter the direction of the political wind, nor who we elect as President, and no matter our personal motivation, frankly speaking, if we fail to educate our young people adequately and accurately about this great nation and what it means to be an “American”, we lose…

Jack Chambless, Professor of Economics at Valencia College, asked his students to submit essays basically having to do with the federal government’s role in our lives. And while there where a small number of college age folk who felt government should stand aside and let the individual shine as was Constitutionally intended, better than 70% of his class wrote in terms of free healthcare as well as government provided college, jobs and pensions. One young man even wrote something to the effect of “human beings could not provide for themselves and that it was the (government’s responsibility) to do it for them”.

This is the sort of thing that should scare every freedom loving American who is reading it. Not only is it scary that this could be the thought process of anyone preparing to go into the world for real, but more so because somewhere along the line, at home and/or within the public school system, there was a “void of learning” which can only be attributed to parental complacency and an ignorant and flawed union ideology rooted in most of the public education system today. We are producing an entire generation of entitlement robots devoid of the fundamental principles of “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”, a class of young people who simply have not been taught to recognize or understand the goodness in free will, self-reliance and individual exceptionalism. Simply put, our nation will instead have to deal with a totally new entitlement class, poor and deficient not by circumstance but by choice.

 

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This is not what Christmas is about…

Posted on 2011/11/26 by

I hope everyone’s Thanksgiving was a happy and safe one. Sadly, I must report this holiday weekend has brought a tragic and senseless end to the lives of some who partook of the so-called “Black Friday” sales events around the country. I will admit I have never attended one of these (free for all’s), and never will. Moreover, I have developed an affinity for the cyber component of shopping, as the deals seem just as good and certainly involve less aggravation. Having said all that, my wife, who was a retail executive for many years before my son was born, has done her best to explain the fascination with sleeping on a cold sidewalk at 2 AM in the hopes of purchasing a $2.00 waffle maker. (I still don’t get it). All joking aside, a grandfather died while attempting hide a video game from other ravenous shoppers and was subsequently tackled by security as a shoplifter and died of a heart attack right in front of his grandson. Another women pepper sprayed here retail opponents and fled with her X-Box. And yet another was shot dead in the parking lot of a mega-retailer for the merchandize he had just “scored”.

Aside of how sad I feel for these poor souls and their families, I think there is another dynamic many of our time are overlooking as we attempt to make sense of these tragedies. At this very moment and in some far away cave, a bunch of smelly fanatics are pointing to this lunacy and using it as a teachable moment for the militant youth before them, who are preparing to go and take the lives of the innocent to promote their twisted beliefs. They scream of the decay of American culture and the evils of our free society, and point to these very incidents as evidence. Even more alarming is that “We the People” seem numb to the reality of this “picture of America” we present to the rest of the world. In the name of a few dollars saved on a damn video game, a young boy will miss all the good times not lived with his granddad. And for only what he possessed in his arms at that very moment, an innocent family man is robbed not just of his merchandise, but of his future.

I must be honest and tell you that you will not find a bigger Capitalist when it comes to the engine that drives the most successful economic platform in the history of the world. However, when as a pretext to a holiday framed by peace, hope and love for our fellow-man, we engage in this kind of shortsighted, selfish and animal like behavior, it is definitely time that we step back and examine our national priorities. Otherwise, the rest is inconsequential at best. Wake up America!!

 

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