Posted by
IndyBlogger on Friday, May 08, 2009 8:45:55 AM
Watching Fox news this morning, considered the most conservative by some, and not even news by the liberal crazies. The stories today in a short 5-10 minute period were about the following, a new book called take your oxygen first, a lady who put her kids out of the car, actors not responsible for the action because of alcohol, and finally a lady fired for social networking in her free time.
All of these could be normal stories, and represent an obviously slow news day but look at what we are talking about. Its a probably a great book, but the author describes caregivers as the hero's of our time. Are we going a little to far here? What ever happened to fireman? Maybe they are the hero's of time because in a world so self centered, this behavior seems odd. Taking care of one's parents was the expected norm not long ago. My mother took care of her grandmother and her mother, my whole life and my dad takes care of his dad now. Hero's I guess. Maybe we are just hurting so badly to find the good people that taking care of your family is now consider special.
Then a lady frustrated with her kids, puts them out of the car, drives around the block and goes back to pick them up. The headline is may escape endangerment charges. We wonder what's wrong with our kids, and why they don't behave. It's simple, there is no discipline anymore. Parents can't be parents in the nanny state we live in. That's all for the state or federal government to decide now. Well if that's the case, they might as well offer a class in 8th or 9th grade on how legally parent. At least then we will know the rules. As I recall driving is a privilege, which means not everyone gets to do it. Well riding should be a privilege too. Where are liberal when you need them. You can't drive and talk on the cell phone in the New York but I guess you can allow fighting screaming kids because that's not distracting. Maybe we should dream up a no talking in the car policy, then parents can use the I'll call the policy excuse on them and our nanny state can take care of us. While they are at maybe they can put that on their permanent record, destroy their future and make them permanently dependent thereby ensuring the regulators job in the future. Wait, before we do that, how about we let parents be parents and live in a free country.
So an actor beats up another famous person or some such thing. First, who cares? My life is not so boring I need to hear about this gossip. But it gets worse. The guest on TV says he can't be responsible if he has an alcohol problem, because its a disease. Oh well, in that case he should have just killed the guy, now that we are blaming diseases. I mean how could we hold him responsible for something he did, and a "disease" that was self inflicted. Meaning 'but for' his own action some other person was damaged. That's usually the definition of responsible. Not these days, no one is responsible, no one can think for themselves, everyone needs the help of the government to live normal lives. Or just maybe we should charge him with battery like any other person and check him in AA. Now in this case, maybe he had a good reason to hit him, that case hasn't been tried yet, but you can't scapegoat this one on alcohol.
So this lady off work hours, goes into a private discussion group and makes comments about her boss. Someone else in the group shows the boss, who was not in the group. The lady gets fired. This one is tough, because in a right to work environment you should be able to be fired for having hair out of place or the boss/owner just didn't like you. Too bad. However we don't live in that world. We live in Nanny state and nanny state says you have to fire people for cause. Which is odd, because we don't seem to be able to fire people for being incompetent, which happens regularly but they were able to fire this lady pretty quickly for belonging to a social networking group. In today's world you should be fired for what you do out of work if its not breaking the law. This does prove one thing about corporate america. Its more important for people to like you at work than to actually work.
All of these stories reflect where we have gone as a society. A group of people where its special to take of your family, impossible to discipline your children, faultless in our crimes and punished for using free speech.