TheJadedDog
AFK ATM
You are not the only one; I cannot stand the children, any of them.
...No matter what age you are, you'll think the generation...one decade younger is full of ****, out of control, a pain in the ass, ...The rule works in reverse for people decades older than you. Those 10 years older are know it all, crotchety, burned out old fogeys.
So, you're 22 and I'm 32. I probably feel the same way about you as you feel about the average 12 year old and conversely think of me in the same way I think of 40 somethings.
...we have chosen to be a child-less couple for lifestyle reasons.
... we have lots of disposable cash. Cash that politicians need.
So... you can forget about schools, money for sport programs, etc... because we don't need those services and don't want to pay for them.
..every time I vote it will be against having to pay for the burden of YOUR children.
Hello Mexico!
BierMuncher, seriously and with all-due-respect, there are other opinions out there. I don't have anything against children, or school programs, or education for children. What I DO dislike is this socialized opinion that the burden of children should be equally shared and I find the idea of "the villages' children" to be sickening. You want to educate your children? Send them to private school. We need to do away with public schools altogether.
I don't have anything against children, or school programs, or education for children.
We need to do away with public schools altogether
There's the problem (in bold). Let the kids fend for themselves. Both my wife and I put ourselves through engineering school. Paid back the debt no problem with an engineer salary. No burden to parents finances. Expecting my only child to do the same....The reality is that most couples are delaying marriage until their 30's and 40's so just when they are planning on retiring, they have college expenses to worry about. In 18 years it's going to cost several hundred thousand dollars to send kids to an average college - basically wiping out any savings you might have and putting your kid in deep deep debt with probably very little chance of ever getting a job. ...
...You want to educate your children? Send them to private school. We need to do away with public schools altogether.
There's the problem (in bold). Let the kids fend for themselves. Both my wife and I put ourselves through engineering school. Paid back the debt no problem with an engineer salary. No burden to parents finances. Expecting my only child to do the same.
Hello Mexico!
BierMuncher, seriously and with all-due-respect, there are other opinions out there. I don't have anything against children, or school programs, or education for children. What I DO dislike is this socialized opinion that the burden of children should be equally shared and I find the idea of "the villages' children" to be sickening. You want to educate your children? Send them to private school. We need to do away with public schools altogether.
Dang it Bird, you beat me to it!the_bird said:"My house ain't burned down - I'm not paying for no goddamn fire department!"
I don't know about everyone else, but I would prefer to hear the laughter of children over most of the other noises they can be known to make.
Can I call you twenty-somethings hippocrates now, or in twenty years from now after some of you nay sayers actually procreate?
I love the fact that all the "I'm never having kids" crowd always seems to forget that THEY WERE ONCE KIDS THEMSELVES, and if their parents hadn't had kids, they would not be here to complain about kids...
I don't have any kids yet, but I plan to.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion, let's try not to get too personal.
There's this strange, strange thing that happens to people when they become parents...... They decide that the whole world instantly revolves around their little kid. Then there's this idea that suddenly they have all the answers to child raising, and everyone else has no clue. Plus any attack on any parent suddenly becomes a personal attack. It truly boggles me. I understand that most kids are well behaved, small versions of adults. Those kids are being raised by men and women like the ones here on HBT. But I do think it's reasonable to say that there are parents that are screwing up big time, and could benefit from some advice from, well, anybody 'cause whatever they're doing or not doing clearly isn't cutting it!
Drop public education? I'm thinking that's probably not a great answer. The vast majority of our highschool graduates (and dropouts) are not educated enough to get anything approaching a real job. Sure they're qualified to work at McDonald's, but that does the country no good at all. Those kids used to be able to go and work in the factories and earn a reasonable living, but well educated people some years ago decided that it would be better for our country to give those jobs to computers, Mexicans, Chinese, Thai, etc etc etc.... Now we're in quite a pinch. Millions of under-educated well-fare recipients who are reproducing like rabbits. Take a guess what their kids are going to do with their lives. I don't pretend to have a great answer here, but we are definitely in trouble. Personally, I don't blame education..... I blame the people who decided that America was ready to open the doors to the world market in every way possible instead of doing it slowly, one industry at a time, and carefully considering the consequences.
Frankly, at this point, I'm not sure I can blaim kids today for not respecting the people that have come before them. Take a look at the economic mess that we're handing them. I'd be pretty pissed too.
I blame the people who decided that America was ready to open the doors to the world market in every way possible instead of doing it slowly, one industry at a time, and carefully considering the consequences.
I love the fact that all the "I'm never having kids" crowd always seems to forget that THEY WERE ONCE KIDS THEMSELVES, and if their parents hadn't had kids, they would not be here to complain about kids...
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