During the first few years of their lives, babies learn important skills.
If their caregivers stay at home and watch TV, play computer games, talk on the telephone and listen to music all day, children will understand that you don’t have to work to earn a living.
When children finish school and get a job, they will not understand why the employer requires them to do work to earn a wage.
To them society is not fair.
When babies are female and the primary caregiver does not work and is provided with free public housing, free health care from Medicaid and food stamps, they will become single mothers and go on the government dole.
On the other hand, take a single mother with two boys who works two jobs to support her family.
She comes home from work and sees her two boys watching TV.
She sells the TV.
They go to the library and start reading books.
Soon their grades improve and they become head of their classes.
One of the boys is Ben Carson.
You can read his story in “America The Beautiful, Rediscovering What Made The Nation Great.”
He is the pediatric neurosurgeon who led the team of doctors that successfully separated two people born attached by their skull.
This nation is great because of hard work, accepting personal responsibility and great freedoms.
Is it fair for society to treat people differently that have not learned to work hard to survive?
Is it the responsibility of society to grant people positions that they are unqualified for because of their national origin or language, sex, race, background or some other factors?
Is it the responsibility of employers to hire workers who do not understand that you have to work to earn your wages?
Is it the responsibility of government to take wealth from hard workers?
And give it to those who believe that hard work is not necessary to get wealth?
Are teachers trained to teach students that learning the class material is hard work?
When this is contrary to everything they have learned all their lives?
Blaming something or somebody else for your personal problems will never solve them.
The best way is to define the source of these problems.
James Scheiman, Jacksonville