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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4091988" data-attributes="member: 5412">Intentionally stayed away from the dog thread for the most part.  We love dogs but are dog free since our last had to be put down. With our roaming lifestyle where home is where we plant our feet, dogs can be a burden. We will have dogs later, but not now. So, I missed the drama that evidently developed with someone that just can’t make it in this world? Typically that is because of poor decisions made early in life and carried further into adulthood. The policy of you can’t have it until you have earned it has fallen on deaf ears for a couple of generations now. Government handouts, boomer parents hovering over their kids like helicopters, and so on has contributed to what is happening now. Parents didn’t teach the kids to get out and work to make some money while going to school. After school, 8 hrs a couple days a week on the job is a burden to them. Do they ever think to ask for extra hours or to fill in when someone is sick, or take night callouts? Probably not. It would interfere in their social life where they go to a restaurant and never talk to each other, only text. We have watched that exact scenario In Tulsa. At the end of the meal they hug and go their own ways. Most seem to think they should be hired as the CEO of the company they work for and not have to work their way up the ladder. Skilled labor jobs are beneath their status in life, so they continue to flip burgers until the CEO gig comes into fruition. Meanwhile boomer parents that had their kids earn that allowance, stay home when they were out of money, made them get a job to pay the insurance on that vehicle and learn skills have kids that aren’t whining and are working to make that money. So I just described how I raised my sons. Today they are both doing fine financially, oldest sons kids are working two jobs each during the summer to pay for that car they will get this fall as well as the expenses related to future maintenance on the vehicle in savings. What we have in America is a parenting problem.Parents who don’t raise their children to be self sufficient and develop the work ethic to remain solvent financially in this current world. Yes, there are going to be exceptions as there is to every rule, but overall, I see parenting first being the issue and passing it down to succeeding generations. The government handouts to buy votes is running a close second. Indoctrination is a powerful tool in the wrong hands.</blockquote>

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