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I have completely lost patience with the way it has become a cultural norm to sugar coat everything. For example:
I was bemused to discover that children no longer get an "F" on their report card if they fail a subject. Instead, they come home with a note from the school congratulating them on "qualifying" for a special class that will be held after school 2 or 3 days each week. There will be cookies provided and fun games to play. If this "fun" remedial schooling doesn't work, the kid gets promoted to the 4th grade, anyway.
Social Security and Medicare have morphed into something called "entitlements" instead of being earned benefits that almost every American worker has paid for through payroll deductions from their hard earned checks.
The social contract has turned into an "entiltlement," as well - consisting of a set of frivolous expenditures easily discarded in favor of maintaining the "defense" industry and keeping up the cash flow to Hallibuten. The 100,000 civilians killed in the Iraq war when we were "defending" ourselves from a country that had never attacked us were "collateral damage," and torture is now "enhanced interrogation."
The Bill of Rights was ruled null and void under something called the "Patriot Act." It is now "patriotic" to arrest citizens without letting them know what charges are being laid against them and hold them for some indefinate amount of time without trial - there is no more due process under the law, but that's OK because it's "patriotic."
The news media described 20 dead first graders as being "honored" by prayer vigils and through special funds set up in their memory. We used to honor someone (usually an adult) who gave up their life for the sake of some greater good. It is not an "honor" for a six year-old child to be slaughtered by a sociopath with a Bushmaster. It is a tragedy that we grieve ever happened and we mourn for the loss of those babies.
Billionaires are now called "job creators" and "small businessmen" when they outsource hundreds if not thousands of American jobs to China in order to increase dividends to stockholders who hold shares in a "small business" like Apple.
And there are no more people in the American South or anywhere else in the country, for that matter, who hold racist views. The Civil Rights movement of the 60's magically morphed Bubba into Atticus Finch and the few remaining Bubba's hiding out in a swamp somewhere are merely scattered members of the lunatic "fringe."
I thank you for your post. No youtube or anything. Just one person's thoughts.
I will note that Social Security Retirement benefits were called 'entitlements' from the very beginning, during Roosevelt's time. Mr. Roosevelt was the one who argued (and won, being President) that they be called 'entitlements', to make the program more receptive to the public. Since Medicare (which came afterwards, of course) is also paid for by a worker's own money, I think entitlement fits also (but not Medicaid, a welfare program).
Indeed, here at Social Security (I work for ODAR,the disability office) we state that a person is 'entitled'' to disability income benefits (under Title II, the insurance program) and 'eligible' for supplemental security income benefits (under Title XVI, the welfare program for disability, as well as the elderly).
I have completely lost patience with the way it has become a cultural norm to sugar coat everything. For example:
I was bemused to discover that children no longer get an "F" on their report card if they fail a subject. Instead, they come home with a note from the school congratulating them on "qualifying" for a special class that will be held after school 2 or 3 days each week. There will be cookies provided and fun games to play. If this "fun" remedial schooling doesn't work, the kid gets promoted to the 4th grade, anyway.
Social Security and Medicare have morphed into something called "entitlements" instead of being earned benefits that almost every American worker has paid for through payroll deductions from their hard earned checks.
The social contract has turned into an "entiltlement," as well - consisting of a set of frivolous expenditures easily discarded in favor of maintaining the "defense" industry and keeping up the cash flow to Hallibuten. The 100,000 civilians killed in the Iraq war when we were "defending" ourselves from a country that had never attacked us were "collateral damage," and torture is now "enhanced interrogation."
The Bill of Rights was ruled null and void under something called the "Patriot Act." It is now "patriotic" to arrest citizens without letting them know what charges are being laid against them and hold them for some indefinate amount of time without trial - there is no more due process under the law, but that's OK because it's "patriotic."
The news media described 20 dead first graders as being "honored" by prayer vigils and through special funds set up in their memory. We used to honor someone (usually an adult) who gave up their life for the sake of some greater good. It is not an "honor" for a six year-old child to be slaughtered by a sociopath with a Bushmaster. It is a tragedy that we grieve ever happened and we mourn for the loss of those babies.
Billionaires are now called "job creators" and "small businessmen" when they outsource hundreds if not thousands of American jobs to China in order to increase dividends to stockholders who hold shares in a "small business" like Apple.
And there are no more people in the American South or anywhere else in the country, for that matter, who hold racist views. The Civil Rights movement of the 60's magically morphed Bubba into Atticus Finch and the few remaining Bubba's hiding out in a swamp somewhere are merely scattered members of the lunatic "fringe."
The only kids I know who don't get F's are pre-school kids. I don't know what kind of schools you are sending your kids to. Time to transfer your kids out.
The only kids I know who don't get F's are pre-school kids. I don't know what kind of schools you are sending your kids to. Time to transfer your kids out.
I just wish my high school provided cookies and such for every F.
I have completely lost patience with the way it has become a cultural norm to sugar coat everything. For example:
I was bemused to discover that children no longer get an "F" on their report card if they fail a subject. Instead, they come home with a note from the school congratulating them on "qualifying" for a special class that will be held after school 2 or 3 days each week. There will be cookies provided and fun games to play. If this "fun" remedial schooling doesn't work, the kid gets promoted to the 4th grade, anyway.
Social Security and Medicare have morphed into something called "entitlements" instead of being earned benefits that almost every American worker has paid for through payroll deductions from their hard earned checks.
The social contract has turned into an "entiltlement," as well - consisting of a set of frivolous expenditures easily discarded in favor of maintaining the "defense" industry and keeping up the cash flow to Hallibuten. The 100,000 civilians killed in the Iraq war when we were "defending" ourselves from a country that had never attacked us were "collateral damage," and torture is now "enhanced interrogation."
The Bill of Rights was ruled null and void under something called the "Patriot Act." It is now "patriotic" to arrest citizens without letting them know what charges are being laid against them and hold them for some indefinate amount of time without trial - there is no more due process under the law, but that's OK because it's "patriotic."
The news media described 20 dead first graders as being "honored" by prayer vigils and through special funds set up in their memory. We used to honor someone (usually an adult) who gave up their life for the sake of some greater good. It is not an "honor" for a six year-old child to be slaughtered by a sociopath with a Bushmaster. It is a tragedy that we grieve ever happened and we mourn for the loss of those babies.
Billionaires are now called "job creators" and "small businessmen" when they outsource hundreds if not thousands of American jobs to China in order to increase dividends to stockholders who hold shares in a "small business" like Apple.
And there are no more people in the American South or anywhere else in the country, for that matter, who hold racist views. The Civil Rights movement of the 60's magically morphed Bubba into Atticus Finch and the few remaining Bubba's hiding out in a swamp somewhere are merely scattered members of the lunatic "fringe."
You left off the one about how scraping a fetus out of a gals uterus is called "pro choice".
My daughter has gotten F's and she has gotten them up, and they have also tested her for dyslexia which she has. She has to go to tutorial and there is no cakes and cookies and punch, there are no games to play, her teachers are there and they help her with any problems she has in class and with work, and I help her out as well. (Trying to patient). But I do understand what you are saying, everything has a "gloss" to make it seem good when it's not or just minimizing the severity of the word or actions or thoughts or just about anything.
You left off the one about how scraping a fetus out of a gals uterus is called "pro choice".
A gal?? Really? I'm not sure I have to guess what gender you are and how old you might be for using the word "gal" to identify a female. How is that even close to glossing over the choice that a womyn has a right to do with her body as she deems necessary? It IS pro choice; giving her a right a human being a right to choose what they want to do with their body.
I have completely lost patience with the way it has become a cultural norm to sugar coat everything. For example:
I was bemused to discover that children no longer get an "F" on their report card if they fail a subject. Instead, they come home with a note from the school congratulating them on "qualifying" for a special class that will be held after school 2 or 3 days each week. There will be cookies provided and fun games to play. If this "fun" remedial schooling doesn't work, the kid gets promoted to the 4th grade, anyway.
Social Security and Medicare have morphed into something called "entitlements" instead of being earned benefits that almost every American worker has paid for through payroll deductions from their hard earned checks.
The social contract has turned into an "entiltlement," as well - consisting of a set of frivolous expenditures easily discarded in favor of maintaining the "defense" industry and keeping up the cash flow to Hallibuten. The 100,000 civilians killed in the Iraq war when we were "defending" ourselves from a country that had never attacked us were "collateral damage," and torture is now "enhanced interrogation."
The Bill of Rights was ruled null and void under something called the "Patriot Act." It is now "patriotic" to arrest citizens without letting them know what charges are being laid against them and hold them for some indefinate amount of time without trial - there is no more due process under the law, but that's OK because it's "patriotic."
The news media described 20 dead first graders as being "honored" by prayer vigils and through special funds set up in their memory. We used to honor someone (usually an adult) who gave up their life for the sake of some greater good. It is not an "honor" for a six year-old child to be slaughtered by a sociopath with a Bushmaster. It is a tragedy that we grieve ever happened and we mourn for the loss of those babies.
Billionaires are now called "job creators" and "small businessmen" when they outsource hundreds if not thousands of American jobs to China in order to increase dividends to stockholders who hold shares in a "small business" like Apple.
And there are no more people in the American South or anywhere else in the country, for that matter, who hold racist views. The Civil Rights movement of the 60's magically morphed Bubba into Atticus Finch and the few remaining Bubba's hiding out in a swamp somewhere are merely scattered members of the lunatic "fringe."
While I don't agree with everything you said, you are correct. Many of us are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the direction of this country.
As bad as this may sound, our people are becoming just as cheap and mass-produced as the worthless **** we buy from China.
We all need to get our hand out of the bag of cheetos and wake the **** up.
A gal?? Really? I'm not sure I have to guess what gender you are and how old you might be for using the word "gal" to identify a female. How is that even close to glossing over the choice that a womyn has a right to do with her body as she deems necessary? It IS pro choice; giving her a right a human being a right to choose what they want to do with their body.
oh, ok. Good comment, I'm sure we all look forward to hearing more from you.
A gal?? Really? I'm not sure I have to guess what gender you are and how old you might be for using the word "gal" to identify a female. How is that even close to glossing over the choice that a womyn has a right to do with her body as she deems necessary? It IS pro choice; giving her a right a human being a right to choose what they want to do with their body.
It's not a right when a broad hurts another person. Denying someone else the right to live is harmful.
Of course, it is her choice to not get knocked up in the first place.
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