WELFARE MENTALITY

As I sit here reading the local newspaper, I came across an article about widespread graffiti tagging. These graffiti artists should have to take a toothbrush and remove any graffiti discovered in the town, enough of that and they may quit and if that doesn’t stop them, I can always find a bunch of public service programs to keep them busy without pay until they change their attitudes or a load of rock salt or buckshot in the butt when they are caught may be effective. I believe a lot of this behavior comes from the welfare mentality brought on by the Liberal Democrats thinking that we should be spreading the wealth around by taking from the rich who work and earn that wealth and give it to the welfare mentality types who believe that we should take care of them. They have never had to earn anything so they have no pride of ownership. What is ours should be theirs (according to them) and they just come and take it. I am of the mindset that people should earn what they get and the only people who should get public assistance are the sick and injured. Everyone else – if you don’t work, you don’t eat – period.

Gang members do not respect anyone or the rights of anyone. Locking them up does not do any good. If they are locked up because they have murdered someone, that should be a death penalty crime (Colorado doesn’t use the death penalty), but if they did, you would not have repeat offenders. Rape should be a death penalty crime. Pedophilia should be a death penalty crime. Murder should be a death penalty crime. I get sick of these Bleeding Heart Liberals spouting off about violating the rights of these criminals. What about the rights of the victims? Nobody cared about them, and their rights were really violated through no fault of their own!

Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of really nice hardworking kids in the world and those kids have my admiration and respect. However, there are a lot of young people who think they are entitled without having to earn. They have it in their heads that everything should be handed to them. They run around with their waistband of their pants hanging down to their knees and the girls look like they just stepped out of a vampire setting with not enough clothing covering the essentials, they are rude, obnoxious, and have absolutely no respect for anyone. If they listen to music (or what they call music) – everyone else has to listen to it also because it is rattling the rafters, and they think that is their right. Personally, I would like to take their stereo, cram it up their butt and then turn it on full blast and watch them shake, rattle, and roll with the sound.

I am tired of paying for illegal immigrant babies to be born and raised on welfare in America. I am tired of teenagers getting pregnant and expecting the American people to pay for her and the baby. When they have more than one baby that we are obligated to pay for their food, their healthcare, along with that of the mother, I think that is taking too much advantage of the American taxpayer. If you have a baby, that baby should be the responsibility of the mother and father – if the mother and father are teenagers, then their parents should be responsible for what their children do and their children’s babies. What really brings this home for me is the fact that every granddaughter in our family has had at least one baby out of wedlock. Two of the granddaughters paid for their own babies with the help of the babies’ fathers as they should have. One granddaughter has 4 children all by different fathers and has custody of none of them, one has 3 children all by different fathers and has custody of 2 of them, one has 1 child and does not have custody, but hops from one bed to the next. The grandsons (all but one) have children out of wedlock, but so far the boys have stepped up to the plate and support their babies. I am not any happier about my grandchildren’s lack of morality than I am about any of the other girls and boys who are doing the same thing. I do not think these mothers, fathers and their children should be supported by the welfare system. Abortion is a double edged sword as far as I’m concerned. On one hand – the abuses of drugs among young people puts the babies at risk and they sometimes have a lot of medical problems not to mention when you have a drug dependent mother, the baby is neglected. Which is worse being aborted or being neglected or abused? I wish every baby could be born into a loving, caring responsible home, however, reality strikes and it doesn’t happen. Maybe when a baby is born to a mother who can not take care of it, that baby should be removed and placed in a loving, caring home. Whose rights should be protected – the mother or the baby? On the other hand – abortion is cheaper than raising a child from birth to death. I have mixed feelings concerning abortion. Like I said, if every baby was born into a loving, caring responsible home, I would be against abortion but unfortunately, we read daily about the abuse, death, neglect, etc. of many babies and children who are not born into a loving home. Would those babies be better off if they were never born?
Who knows – God works in mysterious ways!