So, what will be Obama's Legacy?

[roadrunner]

"Mind you, it was the impressionistic young, the uninformed, the misguided, the hand-out taker, and the power-seekers that put him in office. Truly, it was a moment in American history when all caution was thrown to the wind."

I am afraid this is the real problem even more so than Obama. I saw it when Clinton was re-elected after having sex with a young intern in the oval office; a sure sign of moral decay and now we have the above mentioned people electing those who will represent us.

Besides the moral decay we have lost our pride and our values. Most people my age (68) and certainly my parents age would starve to death before they would accept hand out from the government. They would accept help from a neighbor but they would work for it if they were able. Now so many people expect the government to take care of them, they think it is owed to them and they want to stay on the gravy train as long as possible where as their grandparents wanted out of the program as soon as possible. The people today will even game the system or cheat in any way to get on and stay on the gravy train. Their grandparent would have rather staved to death than to cheat the system. They would take some assistance for their family if they could not provide any other way but it would be an embarrassment for them.

We can not be proud of where we are today and if we continue down this path we are in real trouble in the very near future in my opinion.

[Bonefish]

As I grew up my family did not have much, but my father made sure we have food and cloths to go to school. He quit school at the 8th grade, but he always was able to work because he could do most anything with his mind and hands. I have to say most of the time he worked in jobs he did not enjoy, but he provided the basics for us. It know it would have been hard for him to ask anyone for help and to his credit he never had too. However, there people who have fell on hard times because they have lost their job and can't find work. Evern the well educated have tasted the bitterness of being unemployed. For those people who have family to support, my heart goes out them, but to those who do not try, I have no empathy. I started another Thread on "50 years of Night in Eastern Kentucky" written by John Cheves which addresses this very thing. This is a well written account as to what has happened in Easter Kentucky up to this point. The future of Eastern Kentucky and of this nation does not look good at this point as far as I am concerned. Just look at how many robberies there has been so far this month here in Lexington, Kentucky.

[roadrunner]

As I grew up my family did not have much, but my father made sure we have food and cloths to go to school. He quit school at the 8th grade, but he always was able to work because he could do most anything with his mind and hands. I have to say most of the time he worked in jobs he did not enjoy, but he provided the basics for us. It know it would have been hard for him to ask anyone for help and to his credit he never had too. However, there people who have fell on hard times because they have lost their job and can't find work. Evern the well educated have tasted the bitterness of being unemployed. For those people who have family to support, my heart goes out them, but to those who do not try, I have no empathy. I started another Thread on "50 years of Night in Eastern Kentucky" written by John Cheves which addresses this very thing. This is a well written account as to what has happened in Easter Kentucky up to this point. The future of Eastern Kentucky and of this nation does not look good at this point as far as I am concerned. Just look at how many robberies there has been so far this month here in Lexington, Kentucky.

I most certainly agree the people who are not employed for no fault of their own need a safety net, unfortunately people will abuse a good program. It is not a life style it is there to help those in need.