I hope all is well with everyone. I wish all was well with me, but it is not. I am very disturbed. Why? I'm sure your first guess would be the election, but you guessed wrong. It's not who won or who lost, not what will happen in the future, but what has happened to the American public.
In the last few weeks I have been called every name in the book. Why, because I have an opinion. I have never and willl never call anyone a name because of their opinion. I don't get it. A few weeks ago I posted a video stating why I would not vote for Obama. I never called anyone a name, never talked about their sister, just stated my reasoning. I don't think anyone even watched it all the way through, or maybe not at all. They just started posting their trashy comments. The only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that the internet has created a generation that hides behind the keyboard. I challenged all the people with negative comments to say those things to my face and they all went silent. I'm not a violent person, I don't fly off the handle quickly, I'm easy to get along with most of the time. I will say this though, anyone that knows me really well, knows better than to fuck with me. I don't get mad, I get even. For example, you steal a dollar from me, I will steal 10 from you. You cut off my finger, I will cut off both of your hands. Just for clarification, I don't cut peoples hands off, I don't steal, those are just figures of speech. Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked on my message here.
Now here is the part where I state my opinions. If you want to disagree, disagree, that's fine with me. You are entitled to your opinion, but so am I. I believe that the problems we have today are directly related to how children have been raised for the last 20+ years. The kids now run the household, the schools, everything. They are never wrong. Everyone is afraid to tell them no. I think the first time they pop off to their parents or any other adult they should be subject to some wall-to-wall consuling. The discipline needs to start at home. Now let's talk about school. First of all it is not the teachers fault if all kids do not pass. Why does everyone need to pass? It's a fact of nature that some people are more intelligent than others. Deal with it. Parents need to keep their asses away from the school and let the teachers do what they are supposed to do, teach. And if you are helping your kids with their homework, you are part of the problem. They need to do it and be held responsible. Don't get me wrong, I'm not giving the school systems a free ride on this, they are part of the problem as well. School testing is the worst thing ever. I think we need to go back to teaching the basics. Kids today have trouble doing basic math, they have a very limited understanding on how government works, and I'm not sure they even teach science anymore.
Ok, so enough of that, I think you get my point. The children of today are the leaders of tomorrow. It's time to straighten up and do the right things. It's an easy thing to do, but we need to start today. In closing, I hope that everyone will stop and think before they start talking, especially when they do not have the correct information.
Sincerely,
J.R.
Formerly a proud American.
