Letters to the Editor
Rambling Rose 22
Published Letters: 698 Editor's Choice: 6
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WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?
[Read the article: War advocates like Anne-Marie Slaughter demand that you forget the past]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Using the Barack Obama campaign ploy to assign blame is exactly what this guy has been doing for the last year now in order to drive a wedge in our Party, suck up to the wealthy liberal elitists who finance him, gather up the young and the feckless, and make himself seem gifted and talented!
I don't know who this woman is that you give so much space to, and don't want to know her. I only know that you, and people like you, spend entirely too much time analyzing everything to death,pick at the Democratic party like it was Thanksgiving leftovers, and carp about everything under the freakin sun!
We are in Iraq. We need to get out in a responsible manner. McCain won't do it. Obama doesnt' know his ass from a hole in the ground but he can define the hole in the most eloquent manner. Clinton will do it - responsibly and timely.
No one in their right mind will forget how we got there:Lies, lies, and more damn lies. I don't blame Congress for giving the Commander-in-Chief the ability to pre-emptively strike an enemy after what happened to us on 9/11. I blame Bush, Cheney,Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and all the rest of the neo-con nuts who lied convincingly, a press that decided to go to sleep because it wanted to be "embedded" more than it wanted the truth, and a fraidy-cat American people for swallowing it all hook, line, and sinker.
We know who to blame - DO YOU?
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YOU BOTH MISS THE POINT, BUT WHAT'S ELSE IS NEW?
[Read the article: Single mothers are ruining society!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]FACT: There are entirely too many never-married, single mothers in this country.
FACT: Never married, single mothers are more likely to raise their children in poverty, or too close to the edge of it.
FACT: All children, especially male children, need fathers and unfortunately in America, too many fathers (never married or otherwise) are just not there.
FACT: The boys/males who are the fathers of these illegimate children do not financially support them and are no where to be found.
FACT: Many of these teens and younger adults have babies with multiple fathers, giving credence to the notion that their behavior is hardly the result of an accidental or "unplanned pregnancy" but rather a deliberate choice to keep having kids regardless of whether or not they can provide for them or even want them.
FACT: Some minority communities have been so accepting of illegitmate children, with grandmothers now raising the majority of their children, that all cultural norms against the behavior appear to be gone.
FACT: Somewhere along the line, these young women and teens gave away their real power as females to some igorant idea that having a baby was (choose one):
a. A way to be loved.
b. A way to belong.
c. A way to get married.
d. A way to quit school.
e. A way to get state/federal funds.
f. A way to get a man to pay attention to you.
g. A way to get a man.
FACT: Too many of these children end up dead at the hands of some unfit, unmarried boyfriend, in foster care for their entire lives, and tossed aside like last year's hip-hop hit single.
The young men won't marry them? LMAO Really? Oh okay. Gee, I wonder why? There's no incentive for these guys to marry the girls. They can just hop from one rabbit to another rabbit, breeding all the way to age 21.
It seems that there is an epidemic of unmarried women giving birth - sometimes 2, 3, and 4 or more times - in the United States. And while someone somewhere can find an unique story that defies the generalized situation, the majority of these young women cannot take care of the children and the burden of their stupidty is being forced on the rest of society.
These young females should not be screwing anyone at the age of 13, getting pregnant by 14, and doing it all again a few more times by the age of 17 - and someone needs to tell them frequently and consistently to STOP SCREWING, STOP LIVING YOUR LIFE THROUGH THE DRAMA OF THESE GUYS, STOP GETTING PREGNANT, AND START FIGURING OUT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WITH YOUR ADULT, CHILDLESS, LIFE.
And you act like there are no moral absolutes - that bringing kids into the world without the benefit of a roof over their heads, food in their stomachs, clothes on their backs, and a real future doesn't matter; that there are no repercussions.
The problem to me seems to be that there are no morals of ANY KIND at work here, including in the churches many of these young girls, or their mothers or granmothers, drag the kids to every week.
We have sex education all over the place so no one can say they don't know what causes pregnancy. We have preached safe sex and the use of birth control to stop unwanted pregnancies, and both are available out there to those who want it. The issues of how expensive it is to raise children are well-known and widely discussed. And the issues of poverty for young, never married women, and some former married ones, are real and have been discussed for years. So, given all this, WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?
And let's not overlook the more affluent women who are breeding out of wedlock too. The only difference between them and their poorer counterparts is they can afford to pay someone else to raise their kids.
Of course, being the timid, cowering people that we've become in America, raising the issue of this epidemic of illegimate children will immediately be seen as wrong by some do-gooder out there. It takes a Bill Cosby to raise the issue, right?
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AND YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM!
[Read the article: Happy stained blue dress day, everyone!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And here you are just happy to go along and do a story of your own about how appalled you are at the story. Did you know that if you and few others had not done a story condemning the story I would not have know about it?