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Complacency has beset many within our country. A few in here have also mentioned what others feel; those who hold offices of authority are maintaining status quo rather than blazing new trails.
For many of us here who have been down range you can tell the wealthy from the poor. I can not recall seeing many of the “working class” being overweight. We have become so used to the good life here that we feel things should be given to us and not earned.
In many places people struggle to maintain survival while in others they struggle for a place in line at the burger joint.
Throughout the history of this country we have faced many tumultuous and trying times. It seems now more than ever we have become a society of instant gratification. A nation living beyond its means and soaring debt are a testament to this. Whatever happened to hard work and savings to obtain something?
There has been a division among those who have and those who have not for many years. There will be until the end of time in my opinion. Keeping up with the Jones’s is never a good thing and goes back to the instant gratification society we have become.
How many today have experienced rationing of food, natural resources, etc? Today it seems an impossibility but not too long ago it was a reality. How can you learn to pick yourself up if you never fall? How can America learn to live within its mean if we bail out those who made bad decisions? In essence what we are doing is socializing the bad decisions of a chosen few. The consequence is a debt that my grand children may be paying.
In as much as our government is responsible for many things why should it make us any less accountable for our own actions? People need to wake up and learn to take care of their own issues.
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime.
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