[FromMyColdDeadHands]

Originally Posted by GunLawyer001

When exactly did it become my responsibility to solve the problems of people who ignored all the advice they were given? Stay in school. Don't commit crimes. Don't do drugs. Girls, don't screw anyone until you're married, and don't marry some punk without a job or prospects.

OK, they ignore every bit of that, and now we have battalions of illiterate unwed crack moms with 3 kids, no father on the scene, no job prospects or job skills. The previous generation just like this produced squadrons of amoral thugs who skipped school until they dropped out, can't be trusted to sweep floors much less get on a career track, and they commit crimes the way I change TV channels.

Not surprisingly, these people have no jobs and are poor. Or they have jobs that don't require skills, punctuality, or trustworthiness. And they're poor. Poor is the default condition, you stay poor unless you can offer something of value to other people; that's the incentive to offer something of value instead of being a parasite.

So, NOW you come to me and ask me for advice and a bailout? After the choices have been made, after the hole is dug and the cretins jumped in? When did it become my duty to fix the consequences of the free choices made by other voting adults? If it's none of my business what goes on in the bedrooms of strangers, then it's really none of my business if the consenting adults involved have no money to buy food for their resulting kids. Poor people who spawn children will have poor children. Amazing, huh?

There was a time when men sought to establish themselves in careers before taking wives and siring children. Jumping directly to breeding will create poverty. Creating children who lack supervision will create criminals.

If you call the tune, then you pay the piper. This is not a new concept. It works. If you take charge of your own life, if you know better than all those neanderthals who talk about honor and ethics and hard work, then you get to reap what you've sown.

WELL SAID!!!! I couldn't have said it better myself!!!