Originally Posted by dculkin
"Back to the point, though, what does it say about our country that such mediocre talent is rewarded so generously? Does quality mean nothing?"

Not any more I'm afraid! We don't let our kids fall down anymore. We insist on giving them an 18th place medal when they didn't win the race and this is continuing to encourage mediocre thought and behavior. This was the backdrop of the liberal 1960's! We might damage their self esteem if we don't keep propping them up and now we have a whole generation of me first slackers who want money, but are not willing to earn it any longer!

This is the part I hate about the liberal movement most. It discourages you from achieving. It discourages you from doing your best and trying harder and masks the failures with this Koom By Yah peace and love bull***** that doesn't mean a thing because if you really love someone, including your children, you wont keep bailing them out and setting them up for a life of welfare state entitlementism way of thinking. You encourage them to stand on their own two feet and to think for themselves! Not become a co-dependent and burden on those around them! It's like a drug you cant help but be addicted to.

Yet somehow the left see's this as a failure and yes sometimes we do fail, but the failures are a learning curve that is supposed to be used to achieve greatness and durability and reliability in ourselves! Yet liberals, everyone I have met all find a default with this and I'm not sure why. I think it's because there is no longer a point of reference that you can use to see where you have been to tell you where you should go now.

This has led to a whole generation of people who know they need something, but they don't know what! And this is a factory default, if you will, in the concept of liberalism that I don't see in Conservatives! Almost every Conservative I've met is self sufficient, self reliant, hardworking, self taught or went out of their way to seek what they needed to know, durable and most of all, resillient as hell!

What ever happened to this standard of achievement and self reliance should be a crime. And don't get me wrong, I honestly believe we need a safety net for those who would be lost without it, but the net should be enough to get you back on your feet, not become a way of life expecting one entitlement after another.

Would you belioeve that the majority of frivilous lawsuits where people see dollar signs are brought into court by liberals? I found that one hard to stomach myself, but when I read this from a judge who wrote about his life on the bench and how many cases he had seen where big dollar amounts demanded for punitive damages were overwhelmingly brought into court by liberals, I wasn't suprised!