You just can't believe some people.

After Katrina there were some centers holding relocated people, that were advertising jobs for handling the everyday chores of the place. I remember thinking... "Don't they have several thousand idle people in that facility....?"

 

Unfortunately the physical conflict part won't happen until the people like us will either be dead or to old to be useful!

 

Maybe the 'Battle for 'Liberty' will be waged digitally--snowflakes might be able to contribute, they're pretty good at video games.
Patrick

 

I and my immediate family do not look, act, or speak like it, but I am a registered Native American....my Mom has a different Dad than all of my "cuzzins" living on the rez, so we appear to be full bore Caucasians unless I told you different, so I don't feel bad telling any of my stories..... When I was a kid, we used to have to go to a town called Browning, which is one of the rezziest rezzes you could ever think to find to play sports......One of my favorite bored drunken past times is to go to Google Earth street view, and "drive" around looking for stray dogs there, as they're everywhere in real life. I've found 27 so far, it's like an adult Easter egg hunt......anyway.......When I was in junior high, we had an away basketball game there in their brand new, month old school. Their old school was about 15 years old, and had been destroyed to the point of non-functionality. We, being the away team, were put in the girl's locker room for the game. It had doors ripped off the bathroom stalls, holes in the ceilings, "blood" all over the walls, and toilet paper strewn everywhere, all within a month of it being open. Can't even imagine what the boy's locker room was like. That school closed and another new one was built and opened before my younger brother graduated high school 10 years later. I haven't been through there in a few years, but I imagine there's been one or two others built in that time, with the old ones just sitting vacant....If you give people something for free, and don't teach them to respect it because you'll just provide more of the same, they'll never learn.......

 

I dunno what snowflakes are, maybe someone could shed some light?

IMHO, we need to simply cut off the welfare assistance after a max time of say, 2 or 3 years. It should NEVER be a way of life as it now is, it should be a safety net for gaps in employment, much like unemployment insurance. For those that refuse to provide some income for themselves, let them die off. I know it is a harsh perspective but honestly, if YOU refused to work for your self, what would YOU expect? I constantly see people begging for money at traffic lights in Philadelphia. Their signs say "willing to work for food" but all they want is enough for their next fix. I refuse to contribute to or enable that life style. I wish I could refuse to support or enable the welfare junkies too.

At age ten, with a single parent caring for me and money very tight, I created my own income. I started a car wash after school and later got a job delivering groceries for the local super market. There were no wages from the super market, just tips. Back then it was dimes, quarters, mostly fifty cents and occasionally a dollar tip but at the end of the day it added up to a few dollars. At age ten, in the mid 1960's with 2 or 3 dollars a day in my pocket I was ahead of the pack.

If you offer a similar opportunity to most people these days they will take the attitude that such work is beneath them and demeaning.

 

I posted my imitation of a "snowflake"earlier...

 

Well said. That sounds like my story, mowing grass, doing odd jobs, paper route, buying candy wholesale, and selling it at school like crack. I even worked 40 hours a week in high school..

I bet a lot of people on this board have similar stories.

 

Snowflake
A term used to describe extremist liberals that get offended by every statement and/or belief that doesn't exactly match their own. These individuals think they are just as "unique" as snowflakes, when really their feelings are just as fragile.


I googled it.

 

Saw this the other day on my Facebook timeline....spot on:

 

Used to ride my bike almost an hour each way to then push mow over 5 acres for a guy at age 11. By age 15 had a part time shop after school stacking shelves, 2 afternoons a week and all day Sat. Best thing that every happened to me. My parents also said the very first dollar you earn you start paying rent. Not much, but enough to learn, you gotta pay your way in life.

 

Shoulder to shoulder with ya.

 

I'm not giving these people a free pass - but the blame should be put squarely on the parents. That's where it all began.

 

My two teenage boys (14 & 16) can't stand the liberal way of thinking and are pissed about all of the statues being taken down (among other things) so they don't offend anyone

They always thought Texas was a cool state until they started taking down their statues......

Where did all of the "snowflake" teaching parents come from?

 

Same idiots who favor "time outs", "everyone gets a trophy" and "not holding kids accountable for bad actions". We have a daughter/husband team like that. Their kids are out of high school and failing badly in society. They will bitch about the two, both living at home, but any advice gets an "I agree" but no action. Afraid of the little brats not liking them. Sickening.

 

It all starts at about age 5. Pats grandkids have "graduation" parties with people and the whole gift thing with caps and gowns for graduating from kinderfriggin'garten. ws

 

The snowflakes came from our generation, the generation after Vietnam.

They're the "everyone is a victim" crowd. It's never someone's fault that they're stupid, dumb, or just plain wrong. It's the fact that no one ever told them that their behaviour was wrong. It's always the "system". And who set up this "evil and manipulative" system? Uh huh, I can't say for fear of getting bounced off the board or blacklisted. Was it because your ancestors were evil, twisted people who enjoyed putting others through intense suffering or was it because they were a product of their age and the thinking back then? I'll leave it for you to decide, but I know what the revisionists are saying and how they are now changing history and re-writing everything.

I collect books and read an awful lot of history; I love collecting and reading books from the 17th through 19th centuries. It is fascinating to read what and how people were thinking in those days. Most of what I read would now come with a content warning because most snowflakes would find it mortally offensive and would probably end up in therapy for decades as a result. Mind you, these would be the same people who probably would probably all be dead after 3 days if there ever was a massive power failure. They have no idea what 3/4 of the world lives like, or what life is all about. None of those idiots who trashed those shelters have ever seen what real poverty is all about; I have, I spent a number of years growing up in a Third World country and have seen real, grinding destitution and poverty. These snowflake morons who think they know haven't got a clue. They all think they've got it so bad or that they are somehow victims of some big right-wing conspiracy. So they lash out at the very hand that feeds them. We as a society started and allowed the fiction that everyone is "special" and owed something, and if they didn't get it, we made it happen at other's expense. We tolerated mediocrity at the expense of quality. (It's good enough because he tried hard) And then we rewarded failure and took away any rewards for excellence. We have now fostered the cult of the under-achiever; more people identify with Bart Simpson than with someone like Warren Buffet; we discourage and shut down those who excel as having some unfair advantage that needs to be equalized at their expense.

We are a society that has lost it's way. There once was a time when everyone looked to the future as something to strive for; - it'll always get better if you work hard. Not nowadays. Now we fear it, avoid it. How did that happen? When some idiot figured out a way to tax it and put a monetary price on it. Where did it all go wrong? When no one came up and said "I respect your right to an opinion, I'll fight for it even though I may disagree with it, but all that I ask is that you give me the same consideration."

Sigh...End rant...
Have a nice day y'all!

 

Proof of Citizenship should be checked on everyone that wants to get back into the devastated States, Florida and Texas. President Trump Needs to start someplace. I think these states are a good start. MY OPINION.

 

I suspect that I am a bit more liberal then some of you, but I totally agree with the above. I wish that I didn't, but I do - particularly the last line. BTW: When I was a kid I set pins in a candlepin (the proper type of bowling) alley. Hard work, and sometimes a little dangerous, but it was a source of money.

 

Like most here, I grew up working my butt off. One summer when I was 14, I made donuts from 2AM to 6AM at the bakery and slept until noon and mowed yards in the afternoon. I was the literal definition of more money than I could spend. I was too tired and no time but I was able to buy the first weedeater in town and that saved me a lot of time on my trimming jobs. You couldn't get a kid to do this now days. They just sit on their phones or XBox and grow pale all summer long.

My daughter is a liberal and I blame myself as much as her mother. I tried to instill a sense of working for what you get but momma bought her only baby everything she wanted with no strings. For the sake of family peace, I didn't voice my objections strongly enough. Now that she's older and has her own house, she doesn't think I'm just the stupid old guy that pays for everything. Not a big swing in the needle but movement in the right direction. This week she's off to Iceland for a week and she hasn't made a single payment on the car I sold her in March! Momma's fault!

Several years ago, I came home one afternoon from work to find a "Hillary" sign in my front yard. Let me tell you, that lit me up like you can probably imagine! She thought better of it when I started out there with my butane torch and quickly self-removed it.

Kids today. I work in an office and there are so many of these guys that have no idea how to change their own oil. I've coached several of them through attempting easy things like replacing a door handle on a car after showing them a youtube vid. Hopefully some of them will learn you can do things for yourself.

 

Amazes me how much information is available on the net yet the millennials around me ask me stupid questions they could easily answer with Google and you tube. The internet is only for facebook.