RW post on FB: The new generation of kids needs to learn how to fail. No, you're kid is not special.

[HughBeaumont]

(Copied that verbatim, BTW)

My response:

Corporate America is already doing such an astounding job failing our children's future that I don't think they need any extra help.

Think about it.

If your kid has a college degree, where's he/she going to go that an overseas kid who can get that same degree can't be imported here to do it for less (or they just offshore the damned job)?

If your kid isn't cut out for college (as many aren't), where are they going to go? There ain't any more Hank Fords rising up outta the woodwork, building them some factories here and paying their workers a fair wage - they have Malaysians and Chinese slaves for that sort of thing now.

For all of you "bootstrapers", people with Masters degrees are getting laid off through no fault of their own. I don't know, should it be their fault for not having an inexhaustible supply of liquid money to go to college continually with? Are we going to tell them they "simply didn't work HARD ENOUGH"?? Who pays for these multiple trips to college? What do they train for? What job do you GO to after PhD qualification . . . SUPER PhD? Do you need a PhD now to do the same job you needed a Bachelors for 15 years ago? What changed in that job?

I take that back . . . maybe they should fail . . . since they'd better get used to a whole lot of it when they get older. Unaffordable college, weakest hiring since 9/11/01, near-zero job growth in 10 years, what seems to be an ever worsening job market to come out to, stagnant to worsening wages in the face of an ever-increasing cost of living, no forseeable career fields on the horizon to replace the outgoing ones, no veering away from 31-year Reaganomics since corporate America and government are now one in the same . . .

Sing it with me . . . "I believe that children are our future . . . teach them well and let them lead the way" PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT.

It's amazing that I don't get defriended more.

[Quantess]

1. Or...need to learn punctuation.

There is a lot of validity to this emotional facebook post. I don't see it as being exclusively a RW perspective.

OTOH, maybe s/he doesn't get defriended more because people already have him hidden from their newsfeed.
:evilgrin:

[Demit]

2. It isn't a RW perspective. That emotional post is the OP's response to the ungrammatical RWer.

[Quantess]

3. Oh, whoops!

Sorry. Looks like I'm losing some of my reading comprehension skills in english, the longer I live outside of the USA.

[HughBeaumont]

4. I couldn't surround the post with quotations due to space limitations on the message line.

But yeah, he definitely didn't use "you're" correctly! :)

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. Alas.....

I've had to move past evaluating messages based on grammar and punctuation. I received the sweetest email from my son's Honors English teacher that had two punctuation errors, two other grammatical errors, a couple of typos and one completely incorrect word that I'll put down as a spelling error.

It's been awhile since I've received anything from a liberal or a conservative that didn't need a red pen. I do believe our language, both oral and written, is evolving at a far faster rate than it ever has in the past.

[whistler162]

5. And your friends original statement was in response to what?

The friend is correct in that failing is a essential part of growing up. While growing up to not fail or to appear to not fail at everything is as bad or worse than failing at everything you try.

Don't know your friend or their political leaning so maybe your diatribe is on course or maybe it is over reaching to a simple comment that holds much truth.

[HughBeaumont]

9. It was an OP, and the friend is a RW Libertarian.

So it wasn't said out of kindness, it was said with a sense of meanness. The friend has no children that I know of.

Should children be blamed if adults relative or otherwise fail them continually? You gotta admit that the everything-for-a-buck world we're handing them puts balls and chains on all appendages from the starting gate. I mean, yes, failing is a part of growing up, but it's not like adults responsible FOR that failure and giving them an earlier and earlier head start on it should be the ones telling them that.

[DinahMoeHum]

6. Do you have a link to the original "RW post on FB"?

thanks

[HughBeaumont]

8. I do, but I can't link it from work. FB is blocked here.

[chrisa]

10. They really don't get it, do they.

People can't "fail" anymore. One failure could mean dooming yourself to poverty, thanks to Reagan Republicans' nuking of any government support of small businesses and working people. As a result, people are doing safe things to just keep themselves afloat, rather than taking chances. ALL small businesses are now in survival mode.

Get it Repugs: There is no safety net, and therefore, no incentive to take risks.

[HughBeaumont]

11. And why are small businesses in survival mode?

Bigger employers not only undercut the small business in cost and logistics, but indirectly screw small businesses two ways - by either underpaying or laying off their own workers (potential small business customers). With no spare income, there's no demand, thus no purchases.

That's why it's vexing when we're told "buy local", when the probem is we can't buy from ANYone, local or otherwise.

And yeah, it's certainly correct that not only can small businesses make no mistake . . . average humans cannot make one either. One bad choice, one unforseen accident, one bad gene, one layoff, one financial disaster is now "Game Over", where it used to just be a mere temporary inconveninece.

[chrisa]

13. Yep. It's all about big businesses now.

And most of them just send their assets overseas. Sad, isn't it?

How sad that "buying local" is now some rare, novelty event because there's so few local places to buy from. Time to enjoy our Walmarts, Walgreens, McDonalds, and those other few big chains that don't come to mind right now. People are clueless as to how bad it's getting to small business, especially Republicans who claim to absolutely love small businesses (Yet they do all of they can to help big business torpedo small business).

[WCGreen]

12. Who would defried you....

thin skinned people....

[HughBeaumont]

14. Funny you should ask that . . .

A woman that I've known since we were 4 years old did. Why? Somewhere along the way, after we dated and broke up, she became a militant right-wing Faux-news watching housefrau. I'm talking mind-locked, "I love Reagan", racist anti-Obama joke-posting, batshit insane Mama Grizzly!

Naturally she couldn't stand when I would continually call her on her round-the-clock bullshit on "Soshulism this" and "big gubmint Democrats" that . . .

I just don't remember her being that way growing up at all. Don't know what happened . .