Why Are We Embracing Mediocrity? - Say What is on Your Mind

Back in the day if it walked like a chicken, laid eggs like a chicken, and tasted like chicken, it was a chicken. Given our current situation it won't be too long until the chickens demand to be called Poultry Americans.

Why do we bother setting limits in our society? Why do we bother acknowledging borders? Why do we bother doing anything?

We have a group of teens and twenty-something's that embrace mediocrity. They were praised for getting up and going to school. Praised for every minor accomplishment in their lives. Not that I have anything against praise but save it for an accomplishment. Something that stands above the rest of life's chores and lessons. Just being on this planet breathing isn't a great feat. We have instilled in our younger generation a terrible work and life ethic. We have not only given them a good self esteem but delusions of grandeur. We have created the gimme generation. Gimme a paycheck because I show up most of the time and almost on time but my hair is perfect.

We place borders but don't worry about enforcing them. Would 9/11 have happened had our government actually enforced its own laws? Who knows? If you break the law you are either given a ticket or go to jail. That is basic principle in any country. In this country we have allowed illegal immigrants to not only break the law but reward them for it. They stage protests. They work without documentation. They use hospital emergency rooms for their own private clinics and don't worry about paying the bills. They drive without licenses in uninsured vehicles and don't care. What's the worst that can happen? They can always return to the country they came from. Or better yet give them some forged name and social security number. Who can that really hurt? Using someone's social security number doesn't really hurt anyone, does it? The negative information drops off after 7 years anyway. I know our politicians would hate to offend these people. It might make all the difference in the world come election time. They don't want to lose that illegal vote.

Has our society really gotten to the point of being so politically correct we can't point out or see the difference between right and wrong? You break the law, you get punished. . You show up and do your work, you get paid, you don't, and you get fired. It's that simple.