Come on. Our country has NOT gone to hell. I have owned a small business for 35 years. My biggest problem is finding ANYONE to work. Right now, we have 71 leads who need to be called on who want to buy a swimming pool from us. My husband is trying to call on them himself, design and build the pools himself, because we CANNOT find anyone who is willing to WORK and do it. Thank God we are going this weekend to move one of our own kids over here this weekend to do it, and go to work for us. But there is NO excuse for anybody to be homeless and starving in the streets if they have have the least inclination to work hard. If we have gone to hell, it is because we are giving BILLIONS to a bunch of lazy, spoiled freeloaders who won't work for a living. I taught high school, and will never forget the kid in my class who was NINETEEN years old and still in the ninth grade. He had been socially promoted to ninth grade after failing junior high twice, and was attending school at all only so his family could collect Aid to Families With Dependant Children. Every day, I would start class, give an assignment, and he would say "I ain't gonna do that. I ain't gonna read that. I ain't gonna write that." He would attend part of each year, long enough for the family to collect, then drop out of school and do it again the next year. I was astounded when the counselor explained the "system" to me. He could do this until he was 21 years old, she said. There are good jobs going begging all over the country- ask ANYBODY who runs a small business and you will hear the same thing. It's up to US to make our country good! Freedom isn't free. Don't forget, we are at WAR, make no mistake about it. We have to defend ourselves overseas or there will be more 9-11,s, and worse. And anybody in this country can work hard and make it if they try. But it takes sacrifice and EFFORT. We still struggle every day to make ends meet, but we started cleaning other people's pools, working out of our house. Now we have three locations and our own pool. Still tough, still working six and seven day weeks, but a little more than we started with. Sorry, the gloom amd doom is just being run by the wrong girl, here. I still believe you make your own luck, largely.
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