Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 1:51:45 PM UTC-4, The Greatest! wrote:
> > Janet B. wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:57:07 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 1:26:05 PM UTC-4, The Greatest! wrote:
> > > snip
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> Too many young women open their legs for shiftless unemployed young guys, and the result is not very pretty. A huge drain on social services, which we working folk pay for via taxes, and of course the due bills for keeping prisoners in prison are very high.
> > > >>
> > > >> Show me a child who is a product of a MARRIED husband and wife, with one or both parents gainfully employed, and that child will have an exponentially better chance of success in the world. Having a kid in a "shack up" situation (a term I believe Judge Judy uses) should be a crime...
> > > >
> > > >Hooray! I beat the odds. It was a tough gig being an unwed
> > > >mother in 1957, and I've always admired mine.
> > > >
> > > >Cindy Hamilton
> > >
> > > I want to reply but I can't think of anything pungent enough to cover
> > > what I think of these hidebound, cement-brained, better-than-thou,
> > > sainted Pharisees.
> > >
> > > Cindy, go girl!
> >
> >
> > I made no reference to Cindy's mon c. 1957, her mother obviously did a good job raising her...that is because from what I see Cindy is a good contributor to this group.
> >
> > I'm no Pharisee, I hold myself no higher than anyone else. But my behavior is better than some, and some's behavior is better than mine...
> >
> > The problem as I see is that whole generations -- primarily as a result of originally well - intentioned Democratic social welfare programs -- have been raised sans any sense of responsibility or obligation, these programs are not "empowering", but they are mightily "enabling". These people (and I am not pointing to any specific group, this behavior is somewhat endemic amongst native - born USAin's) do not aspire "up", they aspire down, to the lowest common denominator, they are so dependent on hand - outs, "programs", and such like that they are crippled, they have never been around normal people doing normal things, like getting up in the morning and going to a job, studying hard in school, setting life goals, and on and on and on...
>
> You're not wrong. My mother worked all her adult life. She tells
> me that when I was about two, one morning I begged her not to go
> to work, to stay home with me. She said, "You work, you come home,
> you go to sleep, and do it all again the next day." She made it clear
> that my job was to excel in school (once I was in school) while hers
> was to keep us fed, clothed, and housed.


There ya go...most excellent...!!!

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Greg