Entitlement Mentality is Killing the USA

I was just rereading an article from the Smary Money website recently that really got my blood a boiling. Here’s a small excerpt:

“FROM WELFARE TO food stamps to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, our country now marshals a massive network of trillion-dollar entitlement programs colloquially known as the “social safety net.” Many Americans, including a few of those running for president, see these bureaucracies as defining achievements of a nation where “nobody is left behind.”

Nobody is left behind? That whole concept is crap!

All we are doing with not leaving anybody behind is lowering the drive, competitiveness and natural ability of the better students to ensure that the students who have different skills don’t get left behind.

You want to make sure everybody does well, give them something to work towards and achieve, don’t lower the standards so nobody can fail.

I have a friend who is a school music teacher and he is getting royally screwed by this mantra. He can’t teach his talented students anything advanced because some of the not so talented won’t be able to learn it. He is held personally responsible for any child that doesn’t excel in his program even if they have the musical ability of a dead ant!

When did this country turn into a place where making kids do some work and put a little effort into their own education and grading them accordingly became such an evil thing?

When these kids turn 18 or 22 where in the real world is somebody going to say to them “Johnny, it’s okay that you don’t finish the work assigned to you because it’s too hard…we will continue to pay you anyway?”

That’s not going to happen and it shouldn’t! We are setting these kids up for catastrophic failure in life and then they are going to blame the educational system instead of themselves and their parents for allowing this crap to happen!

What the heck is wrong with us?!

Eric

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