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kids these days
About the draft: The quality of troops we get now is as low as ever (if not lower), and the purpose of the military is NOT to transform the riff-raff punks into useful adults. A lot of parents who sucked as parents believe that it is the military's job to make something out of their kids. What's the parents' job?
We in the military need kids that have the potential to be professionals, and the willingness to learn. Very few kids these days are humble or mature enough to be teachable. The USMC has basic training down pat (Crucible included)-- I wish the other branches (like mine) weren't so dominated by political correctness. Too many politicians sticking their heads in where they shouldn't be. So much for the draft.
As for kids in general, I often feel like a really old man, even though I am only 27. Why? Because I really feel that kids have become a LOT worse just in the 10 years since I was in high school. There are a lot of reasons: broken homes (divorce), teen pregnancy, drugs, rap music, other pop music, internet porn, schools that suck, so on and so forth.
The problem with kids these days is parents these days. Lots of these parents now are trying to recapture their youth, so instead of growing up and parenting their kids, the keep hitting the clubs, and bringing home a new lover every few weeks. They don't embrace parenting-- they see it as a nuisance that interferes with their right to "have fun" (i. e. , drink and have sex). They claim they love their kids, but few are willing to totally abandon their wild ways to be a good parent. So few kids have TRUE siblings-- ones that aren't half- or step- brothers or sisters.
If Planned Parenthood and the feminists get their way, family will soon be thought of as an outdated construct rather than the FUNDAMENTAL unit of society.
The problem with schools these days is that they are controlled by bureaucrats who care less about education than indoctrination. Kids aren't taught to master reading; they're taught to masturbate. Sex ed has replaced writing, math, and history. They teach a science that presents the THEORY of evolution as fact (anything to disallow the possibility God exists). Because IF God exists, then we might have to answer for our actions (violence, abortion, murder, sexual promiscuity, etc. )
Why is it that the solution to teen pregnancy is MORE sex education, when teen pregnancy has gotten WORSE since it started? That's like telling an AIDS patient that he can get better by getting injected with more HIV virus. Stupid? Yes-- welcome to the liberal mind.
Rant over, nomex installed and switched on
Hohn
About the draft: The quality of troops we get now is as low as ever (if not lower), and the purpose of the military is NOT to transform the riff-raff punks into useful adults. A lot of parents who sucked as parents believe that it is the military's job to make something out of their kids. What's the parents' job?
We in the military need kids that have the potential to be professionals, and the willingness to learn. Very few kids these days are humble or mature enough to be teachable. The USMC has basic training down pat (Crucible included)-- I wish the other branches (like mine) weren't so dominated by political correctness. Too many politicians sticking their heads in where they shouldn't be. So much for the draft.
As for kids in general, I often feel like a really old man, even though I am only 27. Why? Because I really feel that kids have become a LOT worse just in the 10 years since I was in high school. There are a lot of reasons: broken homes (divorce), teen pregnancy, drugs, rap music, other pop music, internet porn, schools that suck, so on and so forth.
The problem with kids these days is parents these days. Lots of these parents now are trying to recapture their youth, so instead of growing up and parenting their kids, the keep hitting the clubs, and bringing home a new lover every few weeks. They don't embrace parenting-- they see it as a nuisance that interferes with their right to "have fun" (i. e. , drink and have sex). They claim they love their kids, but few are willing to totally abandon their wild ways to be a good parent. So few kids have TRUE siblings-- ones that aren't half- or step- brothers or sisters.
If Planned Parenthood and the feminists get their way, family will soon be thought of as an outdated construct rather than the FUNDAMENTAL unit of society.
The problem with schools these days is that they are controlled by bureaucrats who care less about education than indoctrination. Kids aren't taught to master reading; they're taught to masturbate. Sex ed has replaced writing, math, and history. They teach a science that presents the THEORY of evolution as fact (anything to disallow the possibility God exists). Because IF God exists, then we might have to answer for our actions (violence, abortion, murder, sexual promiscuity, etc. )
Why is it that the solution to teen pregnancy is MORE sex education, when teen pregnancy has gotten WORSE since it started? That's like telling an AIDS patient that he can get better by getting injected with more HIV virus. Stupid? Yes-- welcome to the liberal mind.
Rant over, nomex installed and switched on
Hohn
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