PARENTS and everyone else, Take note!
We're supposed to be the nation where "Common Sense" prevails. It certainly used to; until around 1952, as I remember. After that, we seem to have, collectively, "gone round the bend". Maybe it was all the fear of the "mushroom cloud" that we could all see from the atmospheric nuclear tests that were common in those days. (Condi took "pains" to remind us, remember? I don't think she was old enough; to "remember")!
Maybe we just had too many babies, too fast, and nobody could control the horde. The parents of my day certainly knew the chaos that would prevail if children were allowed to be "in charge". Somehow, after 1963, nobody wanted to be "in charge" of anything. Everyone seemed to be looking for someone to blame for whatever they were upset about; like the draft, the War in Vietnam, The Bay of Pigs, "Communism", racial strife, -- the list seemed to grow by the year after JFK was murdered.
Maybe it was because of the order to integrate the schools. A move to "take over" the parenting role? That role and its accompanying responsibilities, seemed to move away from the home, the parents, and the community, to "government", in some form; to the PTA, the School Boards, to the Mayors, Governors, and Representatives at the national level. The brats were put "in charge", because the "officials" who took over parenting roles were immediately overwhelmed! The most self-centered parents took control but no responsibility!. From first grade on, (after 1968) the kids of the most organized parents got whatever they demanded!
Decades later, and, $Billions of wasted dollars, nobody has a clue of a "solution" that can pass any "common sense" evaluation. Within about a decade from now, the majority of the youth in the United States will be "of-color". Anybody knows, whether they will admit it or not, that persons of color are "marginalized" (kept outside) of the "mainstream" in this country; both socially and economically. How can this country grow or prosper in the future while relying on a work force that is deliberately kept out of our economy? This question begs for bit of sanity from each of us. Its long past time to WAKE UP from our Race War; begun in 1970 by whites on the political Right, and led by Tricky Dick Nixon.
Parents (defined as those who directly participated in the birth of a child) MUST be returned to their traditional roles of responsibility. They must be empowered, by law and national resources, to do the job of raising socially responsible, industrious, and skilled workers to grow our economy. Only that will provide for the "public safety" of everyone.
We know the costs; in dollars and social strife, that resulted by passively "going shopping" while an unlucky, or duped, "few" did the fighting and dying in our unprovoked wars of choice. To blame later Presidents and other Officials for acts they did not commit, only striving to repair, is INSANE! It must stop! Under our system, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is Constitutionally responsible for national spending!
Stay Vigilant! Repeating what we're now doing only hastens total collapse!
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