Arlen wrote: Surely, you forgot the underarm deoderant. Or did they forget it?
I'm not sure it's fair to assume that this generation can be fairly compared to the hippies of the 1960's and 1970's (it hurts to admit it too). Sure hippies enjoyed free love, smoking dope, and laying about in a state of filth as much as these kids seem to but the hippies had enough sense to realize they needed a place to live and food to eat. I'm not condoning communes or the socialist practice of equally distributing the wealth of the community to everyone, but at least the hippies had a viable plan for survival.
These kids are accustomed to living indoors, clean clothes, fast food, technology, and instant satisfaction. It seems they think that "mommy, make it go away" is a viable plan to make their debts go away, meaningful jobs be created, and universal peace and happiness to become reality. Somehow their plight is everyone else's fault instead of accepting personal responsibility for their own actions. Sure times are as hard but now is not the time to blame others, grow a pair and get to work. It might take two crappy McJobs to get by but setting back and thinking the Gubment and Barry are going to fix it for you is irresponsible.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
