I’ve been wrestling with isolating the cause of my growing
sense of frustration with America as it exists today, and where it is
apparently heading.
Sometimes the most obvious answer is the right one. I think there are simply too many things going wrong. And I think a lot of us are losing
patience. I know I am.
The population is increasingly ”needy” – not in the sense
that they are truly in need, but like some long ago significant other who made increasingly
unreasonable demands to test your affection and see how far they could push you. That
kind of needy. The really annoying kind. The kind that made you eventually wake up,
cut your losses and dump their nagging, whiney ass and never look back.
Well folks, once again it’s time to cut our losses. I’ll get us started.
The plight of single mothers
…
I don’t want to hear another sob story about the plight of
the single mother of four trying to make ends meet with a minimum-wage job
because she dropped out of school at 15.
I’m all full up on that crap.
Why don’t they ever take some responsibility for their own
actions? Why do we get stuck with the responsibility
for the consequences of their stupid actions?
We had nothing to do with those bone-headed decisions.
I mean, it’s not like anyone can’t grasp that dropping out of
school at 15 means future legitimate job opportunities for you are likely minimum
wage. Or that having a baby when you’re 15 or even
younger practically guarantees a life of poverty for you and the child. Is there anyone really that dumb who doesn’t understand
this?
Of course not. They
know exactly what they are doing. And they
expect the rest of society to step up and pick up the load for them. They are now “victims.” Somehow it’s our fault and as such our
responsibility.
Well society didn’t get them pregnant. Poverty and poor job prospects didn’t get them
pregnant. Somebody they know pretty well
did. In almost every case they got
pregnant the old-fashioned way – they got laid because they wanted to and had
unprotected sex. Odds are, they wanted to get pregnant and knew
full well how to get that way.
Sperm met egg and voila – there was a baby. Mystery solved.
But then many of them – far too many – have proceeded to
bring more children into this world via various “fathers” with nary a care about how to support these
kids, who would take care of them, and who would protect them.
Let’s be brutally honest – most of these repeat baby mommas don’t
deserve our sympathy. We wouldn’t give a
damn about them if there weren’t children involved. And in many cases they didn’t give a damn about
those kids before they had them and don’t care that much about them now.
Except to use them as hostages. Yeah,
that’s right … hostages.
The implied threat is that if we don’t give them more money
for food, their children will starve, because they are sure as Hell not
going to sacrifice anything to feed their own children. They aren’t about to give up any of the things
they enjoy to take care of their kids.
That’s our job.
If we don’t provide their kids with free food for breakfast
and lunch – and now even dinner –at school their kids won’t have anything to
eat. If we don’t provide daycare, Head
Start and after-school programs they’ll just turn their kids loose to roam the
streets. If we don’t subsidize their
rent, they and their children will be homeless.
If we don’t help them pay their
heating bills, their children will freeze to death. If we don’t pay for their kids’ insurance,
they won’t get any medical care.
It never ends. They use
their kids to demand more and more special treatment or their children will
suffer. It won’t be their fault, of course, but society’s, if those kids suffer.
WTF is with these people?
Why do we put up with this? Look,
if you are not going to take care of the kids you produce, then let’s take
those kids away. Can foster care and
adoption programs be any worse than living with people who see children as no
more than a paycheck and social inconvenience?
And let’s seriously consider preventing these irresponsible,
thoughtless breeders from creating more hostages. Yes, that sounds harsh but you know in your
heart of hearts they should not be allowed to reproduce at will like feral
cats, especially since they have no intention of raising and protecting their
offspring. It’s not fair to those
children. It’s not fair to society.
We take away the licenses of people who demonstrate that
they can’t be trusted to operate a car responsibly. Yet we allow people who clearly demonstrate
that they can’t be trusted to take care of a houseplant or a pet – much less
another human being – to continue to produce children who are the most
vulnerable among us.
Shame on us, the culture, and politicians for not dealing
with the source of the problem.
But wait, there’s more …
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