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Lol Nintendork.com. I like that.

 

Took your words and made some slight edits from my perspetive!

Hang in there!

 

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As i am in my late 50's, worked all my life, and taught my sons to work as well (they are in their 30's -one owns a sucessful business, and the other is a poice chief) they learned that life is not what you will be given, but what you will earn.

I work largely in issues involving public policy...ie...legislation. I also fight oppression, racism, mysogony, and civil rights. Talking genericaally about the ills of "welfare" is not responsible. Welfare as it was used as divisie issue was eninded 20 years ago. Is there fraud and abuse in public assistance. Yes. But does anyone here other than me read on a regular basis how many billions of dollars worth of medicare fraud indictments and convictions come out each week....and the fact that these are doctors, hospitals and healthcare providers? (Check out US DOJ news releases).

And for the poster who has children with medical that thepay related issies that "the government" is talking about ending? It is not the government as a whole - it is a particular self centered, "cut for you and me so we can give tax breaks to the rich" group in Washington. I truly hope they do not eliminate such programs that are the only hope for families with real needs.

We all see the laziness in any generation. I see it and hear it all of the time. But like HeyYou said, there are others out there. The problem is they are so busy quitely doing the right thing that we do not see or notice them. Do not give up hope. Yhou are not alone. And you stand out apart from them.

And to those that look at you and see you as the lazy generation, it is their loss. They look and think generically and you cannot change their narrow mind. be confident and know your worth.

 

I'd rather live under a bridge than within a hundred miles of my parents. But then, ya know, people of their generation (born in 1929 and 1935) are lazy ****** who want everything handed to them. They benefited greatly from the New Deal and the power of organized labor throughout their working lives, but voted against anything that might raise their taxes and for anyone who promised to lower them. Today they sit around bitching that if it weren't for welfare programs they'd have better Medicare benefits, a great irony that's lost to them. They live in a house only because they ripped off my maternal grandmother for the down payment, and ripped me off for the rest that paid it off. I'm not bitter about it -- it's just something I had to learn the hard way.

For all the rest of the discussion, my perspective is pretty simple: Ain't no one ever said, "I am opposed to social programs so just let my kid die because I cannot afford this life saving medical procedure that my insurance company won't cover".

 

Don't get me started on Depression Era and the WWII people (the so-called Greatest Generation) -- yeah, Greatest Generation...OF MOOCHERS. My parents both grew up in the Depression, so I know quite a bit of what I bitch about.

 

my grand mother pretty much completely paid for the house my mom owns and my grand mother has given my mom 2 cars which she still has and would never let me drive. talk about selfish. i had to buy and get my own vehicle on the road.