People rarely value things that they don't have to pay for in either blood or money. The safety net in the US is so high that it allows a lot of anti social behaviors, laziness and bad parenting without serious enough consequences to actually motivate people to change their behavior. When government picks up the slack for single mothers and has removed both the stigma and economic consequences for having children out of wedlock and the baby daddies get more social status out of impregnating a lot of women rather than hanging around and being a parent to one or two, what do you think is going to happen? People raised in third world countries or the kind of povery that existed in this country only a hundred years ago knew that study (i.e. work) was a ticket to prosperity. Kids today, black and white have no concept of what real poverty is. May they never find out. |
The reality holiday is grinding to a halt.
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