Just My Thoughts

Just My Thoughts
America needs to get off the pacifier. We have been pampered and babied for so long, we don't realize what we have here in opportunities and possibilities. We have created a generation that believes every one deserves a medal. Everybody is a winner. And the government, credit repair specialists, Betty Ford, your parents and everyone else for that matter are here to fix your problems when you mess up.

We have a bail out generation that wants handouts, welfare, tax cuts, universal health care and help paying their over-priced mortgages, but no one wants to pay for it. As sad as it may seem, everybody can't own a home and everybody is not a winner. It sucks sometimes, but it is true. And while everyone screams about universal health care, I don't hear to many volunteering to be the first in line to help foot the bill so that the single mother doesn't have to uses the ER as her kid's general practitioner.

This economic meltdown may very well have been what the doctor ordered. Since 1982, we have experienced some of the greatest economic prosperity that the world has ever seen. We have a ME ME ME, NOW NOW NOW attitude that puts no value on the ability to delay gratification or a desire to conserve. While there is a pill for every problem; somewhere along the line we lost our way, our ability to deal with problems and put more value in things than we each other. We have leveraged our future by gambling with what we speculated we would have left over after we spent most of what we made today.

I don't have all the answers, but if someone yells at the top of their lungs, "your basement is flooded, your toilets are overflowing and their are rats in your living room," maybe someone will realize that we have problems and need take a serious look at ourselves.