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delicately calloused |
This is what happens when you rescue people from the consequences of their choices. I the only way to fix it is if we start letting people suffer You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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As I always say: It's a lot more fun to make babies than to raise babies. Some people just get more "fun" out of their lives. ************* MAGA | |||
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I agree with your first sentiment wholeheartedly. The second is a little trickier. If only those who make bad choices suffer, fair enough. However, in this situation, we run headlong into unintended consequences. Look at the per capita spending this school is forcefully taking from taxpayers on a yearly basis only to post such dismal results. Imagine looking at your classmates on the first day of freshman year and knowing that less than half of them will graduate. Then there's the issue of an educational system which allows a student with a cumulative GPA of 0.13 to somehow become a senior before detecting a problem. Now there's the question of what will be done to fix the situation and you can bet whatever cockamamie solution is proposed will involve large sums of taxpayer funds. Ultimately, the taxpayers will end up suffering much more than those whose bad choices started this whole saga in motion. | |||
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More profitable, too. Every kid increases the amount of welfare money the single mother gets. | |||
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A child's shoulders were not made to bear the burden of their parents' choices. It's easy enough to blame a teenager who is nearly already an adult. He should be old enough to be responsible for his own choices--the consequences of skipping school and playing xBox everyday should be readily apparent to him. But, his problems didn't start as an adolescent. From the moment he was born, his chances of success are largely shaped by the environment of his parent(s)' choices. You see an underachieving adolescent now, but at some point he was just an innocent kid raised in a bad environment. From that perspective, I feel bad for him and kids like him.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Aeteocles, | |||
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It’s really easy to fall into the trap of thinking that people raised in these environments are destined to be net losses to society. That may be true in many cases, maybe most, but it it can’t be in all. There’s a huge opportunity cost for every person that ends up as a net consumer of resources when, with a little guidance, they could have been at least neutral. Then there’s the extreme cases that almost surely exist as a matter of sheer probability - maybe the person who would cure the cancer I’ll be diagnosed with in 30 years was killed in Chicago last year. All of these people had potential, and some had a lot. | |||
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Drug culture plain and simple. | |||
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This is both a profound statement and a disturbing one. This is what is happening to so many of these kids, Their parent(s) abjectly failed them. They flat did not care and made it someone else's job. _________________ This space left intentionally blank. | |||
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Again, we need to stay focused to see the real problem(s) here. Ultimately the kid and even mom are simply symptoms of the real problem(s), that being government meddling in societal issues. Listening to Thomas Sowell discuss the issue, he notes that in the 1950's the rates for divorce and out of wedlock births were lower in the black community than they were in the white community. During this time more blacks joined the middle class than ever before. Then government stepped in an began its efforts at social engineering. Now out of wedlock births in the black community are somewhere near +70%, marriage has all but disappeared as it has exactly zero value associated with it, and poverty is the norm rather than the exception. This is where this issue (and many others plaguing society as a whole) began. Its easy to blame the kid or mom, but the truth is found much deeper. And as it stands today, I see nothing that is going to change that paradigm. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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| I Am The Walrus |
This is LBJ's plan to perfection. I hope that son of a bitch rots in hell. He set out to destroy the black family and make it dependent on welfare in order to keep voting democRat. It has worked for generations. This along with a media that screams "systemic oppression" and low voter IQ allow this to continue and grow exponentially. _____________ | |||
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| Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle  |
I was a part of a research initiative looking at opioid addiction, school performance in Appalachia. It is depressing. This is not a poverty issue, it is not money issue (though many say it is). No this is a spiritual issue. This is about the 'impoverished mind' A good read if you are interested is " Life at the Bottom Life at the Bottom" by Dalrymple. A good look at modern education in America (although now dated) are Waiting on Superman (The story of America's Fail Academies) And The Cartel God this shit breaks my heart. Now Que all the politicians and mindless drones that are going to bash Charter Schools. If you watch Waiting on Superman, pay attention to the scene where the parents of students in the fail academy, scream over the possibility of a new charter school branch, but do nothing to improve the school their child does attend. So I made a Meme:  classroom by redstone71, on FlickrThis business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson | |||
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How is that even possible. Just by showing up you should be able to get a 2.0 without even trying or a 1.0 without even doing a stitch of homework.This message has been edited. Last edited by: 1s1k, | |||
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Way, way more to it than that. Drugs Welfare Always the "victim", never the "offender" "Where's my free shit!?" - in turn, never having to do any actual work for anything (including a grade in school) ZERO self control ZERO accountability ZERO family structure ZERO self respect (and if you can't respect yourself, how are you going to respect anything else?) Then lather, rinse, repeat about every 16-19 years for the next generation or rocket surgeons to pop out of a well overused uterus. Then people wonder why a crazy amount of crime and a riot or two in places like Baltimore. It's a head scratcher! ______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!" “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy | |||
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Seems like there's a well defined trend in there.... ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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He just didn't show up. If you figure an average of 180 days per school year times 4 years = 720 total days possible. He missed 359 days of high school. Had he missed one more day, he would have been absent 50% of the time. | |||
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My wife is a retired HS teacher. She had a black female student who emigrated from IIRC, Kenya, who was bullied by other minority students for “acting white”. The kid kept her head down, did the work, and got an academic scholarship to one of the better private universities around here. Many of her peers are stuck in menial jobs. | |||
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| I've always been Crazy! kept me from goin Insane! |
I second your sentiment don't send these walking wasteoids into the military they are nothing and will amount to nothing. Odds are they will never hold a job and are the kinds of people you would avoid at all costs if you met them out in the wild.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A 'Veteran' -- whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve -- is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America,' for an amount of 'up to, and including his life.' That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country today, who no longer understand that fact. Author unknown | |||
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| delicately calloused |
This is why I know the problem won't be fixed. It will only get worse until this and other factors drag the host down and kill it. Prepare yourselves. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
Oh, I'm prepared. Got my popcorn, my big orange drank, my fuzzy slippers and an inscrutable smile. You can start the Pinhead Parade anytime you're ready. None of this is my problem. I won't be around for the world these fools are creating. And, yes, it's gonna be a disaster. | |||
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| I Deal In Lead |
The Army or for that matter, any of the military won't take him either as they require either a H.S. diploma or a G.E.D. No way he's getting either. | |||
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