Let The Children Suffer
I got into an argument Monday night with a caller while a guest on The Republican Temple radio program. I said I thought our children needed to suffer, and as the gentleman on the line went into kneejerk mode without allowing me complete my point, I think I’ll make it here, without a rude interruption.
Our country is a mess right now. Granted, President Obama “inherited” some financial issues but I’d almost be willing to bet John McCain wouldn’t be taking over businesses, firing their CEO’s and positioning himself between them and the pitchforks, begging the United Nations for intervention in an arms crisis where our national interests could be threatened, and spending a future generation into oblivion.
And why is our country a mess today?
In part, because most of our know-it-all, arrogant, never-had-to-sacrifice children voted for him. It’s now time for them to feel the pain.
Let’s not forget recent history.
During the last election cycle, our youth reveled in the fact they could get in our faces. They did so on the streets and on our websites. They discovered conservatism with Ron Paul and told us how the concept was really defined. They invaded our online forums and dictated the terms of discussion. They insulted their elders who, in most cases, paid for the online services they were using.
With the rising popularity of Barack Obama, they became instant experts in economics, foreign policy, partisan politics, and proceeded to tell us how we should think, what we could or could not say, and when we strayed from their desired thought processes, came down on us like we were racist, uneducated, intolerant insects.
They terrorized other young people on campus who dared not breathe the fresh Obama air. They interjected themselves into conversations when there was any talk of non-Obama support.
These are the same young people who never had to suffer as our grandparents did. These are the same young people who pester us for the latest and greatest cellphone/texting plans they don’t intend to pay for. These are the same people who we sacrifice to house, clothe, and feed, and instead of thanking us, talked down to us because some of us weren’t willing to give them one more thing they demanded: Barack Obama.
They had little knowledge and/or experience in paying bills, thus they had little knowledge of how Obama’s policies would affect the contents of the refrigerator. They had little knowledge and/or experience in paying a mortgage, while they played activist in their well-lit, warm, cozy, free rooms. They had little knowledge and/or experience of what layoffs would do to their parents’ financial standing. They had little knowledge and/or experience, yet they got in our faces and told us how wonderful November 5th would be with Barack Obama as President of the United States.
And now that they’ve gotten their way, many have gone back to their old habits of wanting this or demanding that, not realizing their naive political choices have seriously impacted the lives of those who receive the priviledge of having them move back home when life gets rough.
Now that jobs are drying up and money is getting tight, they’re freaking out because life wasn’t as cherry as it used to be. They can’t walk into a place of employment and get a job simply because they want it. The ramifications of their Barack Obama-Democrat cabal are smacking them square in the face, and as we’re talking about Nickelodeon-trained punks who consider parents punchlines, their reeducation into real world ramifications may take awhile.
So for that reason, I say let them suffer.
Let them experience what many of us commonly know as “the consequences of your actions”. Let them experience just how powerful their blind, ignorant, “Yes We Can” vote was. Let them experience watching their parents lose the college funds and retirement accounts. Let them see what they have done to the United States of America because THEY knew better.
We oldheads know from experience that we can try to talk to these kids, and their pat response is always “I know, I know.” It’s time to let them “know” what they gave us.
Why?
Because unless we do, these arrogant, narcissistic, know-it-all punks will be back in our faces in 2012.
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April 8th, 2009 at 9:15 am
ON board 100%. I volunteer as a scoutmaster and the boys are so spoiled. To get them to do a little is a chore. My last camp out one group of boys were cooking breakfast. I asked them how where thy going to eat what they cooked, since I did not see plates or utensils. The boy said why did you not bring them for us. I said, I am not your mom, I am cooking over there and we have plates. Time to grow up and learn that if you do not bring it you will not have it.
Too many other stories about this generation of kids that expect way too much.
April 8th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Spot on, Bob.
April 8th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Excellent post, Bob! I completely agree as well. There are many times that I’m grateful I chose cats over children — cats can’t be indoctrinated by the public school system to vote for socialist agendas.
I’m continually shocked by what passes for “education” these days. Thank goodness I went to school when it was still proper to say the Pledge of Allegience every morning.
I’m looking forward to the time that these young idiots wake up and realize that they’ve hung themselves with their own petulant ignorance. Lick it up, babies. Lick. It. Up.
April 8th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Don’t neglect the many gray-haired and spoiled 60s hippies now…
April 8th, 2009 at 10:03 am
God bless you Bob, I’ve been trying to say this for months, and I hope you will allow me to forward this, and to quote you!
Our kids did think that they knew something that we “old heads” were just too narrow minded to see.
That something, was the future, and now they can see their results in such a way we’d hoped to avoid!
April 8th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Well said, and right on the mark. It brings to mind as well the many horrible and oppressive things that have been done to innoccent adults in the name of protecting “the children.” It’s all a bad joke, and we few and distant voices of reason are the punchline.
April 8th, 2009 at 10:34 am
It won’t be long before these kids graduate from their colleges. Assuming mommy doesn’t let them linger in the family home, they will need to get a job, support themselves and all their habits, and (most importantly!) pay taxes.
What I see in the faces of young people these days are future, deeply committed, Conservatives.
April 8th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Agree 110% Bob!
April 8th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
I work with some of those spoiled brats. They talk about how wonderful Obama is but then when I mention something about one of Obama’s stupid moves the response is “Oh, I don’t ever watch the news.”
“Then how do you know he’s doing a good job?”
Then the eye roll comes.”Because it’s OBAMA!”
“Ah, thank you for explaining that. Please don’t ever breed, we have enough morons in the world.”
April 8th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
full disclosure: i am one of the nay sayers bob doesn’t like to hear from on these types of matters.
while i do agree with bob 99% in his essay, i disagree with and am puzzled by this statement:
Because unless we do, these arrogant, narcissistic, know-it-all punks will be back in our faces in 2012.
WTH
what are you talking about? that is the only thing they have to live for for the next 3 years. they ARE going to be back, sufffer or not, mobilized by acorn and how many other far left organizations funded by the so-called stimulus packages.
what i don’t understand is how short sighted bob is on this subject.
this is not a one or two year cycle.
this came on because of 50 years of socialist indoctrination.
it will take longer to reverse.
this is generational.
none of us will be around to see the reversal, if it does, in fact, occur.
i know of no country that has gone socialist, as we are doing, and then flipped a switch, said kings-ex, and went back to being capitalist.
some of the countries in europe that are trying to throw off the yoke of socialism and can’t do it because the system is so deeply embedded in their ethnic fabric. that is what is happening to us right now.
the baron, @ GoV, recently responded to one of my e-mails about hussein and his clean coal commericals in this manner:
I assume that O’s stance towards coal was the standard shakedown: threaten, and then get a campaign contribution. Then ease up on ‘em. That’s Chicago-style politics.
I assume that The Messiah is now in symbiosis with the coal industry, just as he is with the rest of big business.
Remember: this is a truly fascist regime: a syndicalist marriage between large corporation and a metastasized centralized all-powerful government.
and just which cub scout will we send to defeat hitler?
April 8th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Bob I love it.. I know too many of these kids and after the election and in these past few months they are all wondering what happen and I tell them I told you so. It is starting to dawn on them. There parents are going broke and losing there jobs and so these 21/22 year old kids still living off Mommy and Daddy are going broke as well. I say let them stuffer, let them experience this, this is what they wanted, and while we all have to suffer with them at least they will learn there lesson.
April 8th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Judging from the looks of today’s metrosexuals, just about any Cub Scout could kick butt…
April 8th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
2 words, Bob – BULL’S EYE.
They NEED to suffer for this heinous election that they thought they knew..time for some sobering truth here. Not only is Soetoro an IDIOT, but it’s downright CRIMINAL for him to BE POTUS until he proves us otherwise..
But hey – “yes we can”, all that political expediency & advancing civil rights by electing him, right?
oh how they are SO wrong…
April 8th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Liked the post, Bob. As I read this, a TON of people I know popped into my head. I do remember several occasions where people I know have cried because their parents didn’t buy them an iPod/Xbox/Laptop/$100 Northface Jacket/Uggs/ect. I live in a household where my parents, in order to teach me the value of a dollar, usually make me buy anything that I want (other than the essentials, like food). And when they do pay for something (like a power supply for a computer I’m fixing up to sell, so I can get money to pay for a trip to San Diego this summer for Comic Con), I usually work it off somehow.
April 8th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
The Greatest Generation grew up in The Great Depression.
So maybe there is hope for the future.
I just with I hadn’t had to lose MY job for it.
April 9th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
LOVE the words, Bob!! Along with this sentiment, did you also say we’re raising the kids who will be shooting us down in the streets soon, because they’re not happy with things?
Better get our conservative rebellion going or these kids will be over the cliff like lemmings with the rest of the country.
Keep us the great work! vr Tom