Are Skills and Abilities a Thing of the Past?
Growing up as a kid in the 1960s in downtown Manhattan (the one in New York, not Kansas), I was afforded a ringside seat to the world of hard work, perseverance, planning, goal-setting, and achievement. The best lessons provided came from watching my dad, an entrepreneur who inherited a small Times Square laundry from his parents and grew it into a large, profitable enterprise that thrived for five decades. I looked around and saw people working, often more than the minimum eight hours, to put a roof over their heads and food on the table. The few folks I spoke with who attended college took courses that instilled skills—something lacking in today’s college curriculum.
Trade schools flourished, teaching money skills such as carpentry, welding, electrical work, plumbing, and the like. There were “schools” whose classrooms were acres of dirt and mounds of sand where students were taught how to operate bulldozers, cranes, scrapers, and other heavy yellow machinery. Truck driving schools taught eager students how to operate long haul trailers coast to coast. These schools were filled with eager minds in search of marketable skills, not excuses. There were no demonstrations or riots over diversity, inclusion, or equality. There were whites, blacks, Asians, and others who were all there for one reason and one reason only—to learn and apply skills so they could get high-paying jobs. They were there to do the work, not complain.
Now, take a look around you. Let me tell you what I see. Half of America doesn’t want to work. They want taxpayers to pay off their student loans, and they can’t cook for themselves, opting for fast food delivery from others who think Postmates, Google Food, or DoorDash are careers. They complain that food costs are too high, gas is too expensive, and buying a home with an 8% mortgage rate is not affordable. And we are supposed to feel sorry for these cretins who voted the current slate of incompetent progressive liberal Democrats into office with their promises of handouts, entitlements, and outright cash.
These same incompetents’ policies have lit the fuse to ongoing high inflation, woke policies, and inane overregulation. Their narrative goes something like this. As all of you self-important Millennials have graduated from college—sans skills—without any useful abilities that are in demand by employers, and as you have retreated to the comfort of your parents’ basement and have no ability to feed or clothe yourself, or obviously to afford the newest generation of iPhone, you need the government to step in and provide entitlements so you don’t starve to death and shrivel up as a penniless, incompetent, whining collection of atoms and molecules.
Global Warming and the State of Texas
The climate police would have you believe that every weather event striking our southern states—Texas among them—is the result of global warming, overdependence on fossil fuels, farting cows, and the like. It’s a shame that inconvenient facts get in the way of their narrative.
Take Galveston, Texas, for example. In 1900, long before today’s climate terrorists started screaming global warming, a massive hurricane with winds of 145 miles per hour devastated the island city on the Gulf Coast of Texas, causing thousands of deaths. And this is not a new phenomenon. Major hurricanes are said to hit the Texas coast on average every 15 years. In fact all the states bordering the Gulf of Mexico have a long history of severe storm activity, so Galveston is in good company.
Here’s a message to all the progressive climate activists. Methane from herds of cattle and recent fracking for oil and gas did not bring on a sudden surge of hurricane activity. The facts seem to be inconvenient. I think these progressive and intolerant climate police are skating on thin ice.
One Group’s Entitlement Is another Group’s Obligation
I wonder if all those folks who have had their student loans cancelled by President Biden truly understand who is footing the bill for their cancelled debt. Something else I wonder about is whether all the illegals who have crossed our Southern border and were provided debit cards, cell phones, medical assistance, and plane tickets believe—like the delusional students—that the US government paid for it all.
Well, yes, in a sense, they have. But truth has many layers, just like some vegetables I won’t name. You see, the government has money to give away when it goes in debt and when it taxes working Americans. The government takes from one group—taxpayers—and gives the money to another group— illegals or debt-ridden students. I am fine sending all illegals over the border and being rid of them. Hopefully, President Trump will have the opportunity to make my dream come true.
Biased Historian – Turn LEFT at Democrat Crossing
A Fox News article written by Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi and published on June 3, 2024, had me rolling my eyes before I even read the second paragraph. Evidently, an MSNBC Presidential historian (didn’t know there were historians on woke media payrolls) warned that if Donald Trump won the Presidency a second time, the United States “would dissolve into dictatorship and anarchy.”
Wow! Talk about extreme right-wing rhetoric passing itself off as informed commentary from a noted news source. The “historian” in question is Michael Beschloss, a prominent political historian turned radical left-wing asshat. In his comments on Twitter about the Mar-a-Lago raid on President Trump’s home, he compared it to the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg espionage case. He defended himself by saying, “I was not suggesting that Donald Trump be executed. I was doing a historical tweet about the most famous nuclear secrets case in American history.” A historical tweet? Someone might smack this fellow in the head for uttering such drivel.
I long ago decided to place MSNBC on my do not watch list due to their cultural elites telling me everything I am thinking is wrong and just conservative nonsense, and that only they have the key to American goodness and what’s good for our country. Phooey! My distrust of corporate media skyrocketed as I listened to journalists leaving out key facts that didn’t support their narratives. I liken the talking heads at MSNBC to self-righteous foot soldiers of the far left.
Come to Think of It
You know, I can’t turn around without reading headlines about our knucklehead leader. This time, Mr. Biden was set to veto a military funding bill over abortion, gay rights, and DEI provisions. These are not exactly the three most important things that come to mind when I think of supporting our brave men and women who defend our country.
“When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense- to fight the government.”
—Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father, First Treasury Secretary, chief architect of the American financial system
By the way, in June 2023, President Biden berated Second Amendment supporters, saying, “You know, I love these guys who say the Second Amendment is—you know, the tree of liberty is water with the blood of patriots. Well, if [you] want to do that, you want to work against the government, you need an F-16. You need something else than just an AR-15,”
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