Childhood – expected dependency (that’s what kids are: dependent on their parents).
Adulthood? Not so much. But Barack’s campaign site thinks so. Are we becoming a nation of dependent “children”? Are we all that unwilling to put aside childish mannerisms (“Mommy, can I have a cookie? Daddy, can I have a ten?”) and no longer are willing to act like adults? Should adults put on a mantle of expecting everything to be given to them?
Sandra Fluke was the first thing that shot through my mind as I read this note (as in “hey Dad, tuition is not the only thing that is due at the end of the week – can that be my 32 Birthday present?”). Isn’t her insistence of demanding someone else paying for her responsibility the embodiment of the perpetual dependent child mentality? At least the letter writer put the burden on her family; Sandra Fluke has determined that it is fine and proper for Government to be “her parent”; in that most intimate human acts, her claim to fame is to demand that Government provide for her”reproductive activities health”.
I will say this – I would never have ever thought of going “Yo, Dad? You know what I need $18 grand for”? Just the THOUGHT of even having the thought to ask is shameful. Yes, shameful.
Yet, this is a Democrat Value – after all, Sandra Fluke spoke at one of Obama’s campaign rallies. Given that it seems that the Democrat Party is fullbent “forward” on any policy that changes the relationship of and in a traditional family (how else would they EVER get Government to be “the parent”?
As offensive as it might seem to feminists and Bigger Government Progressives who believe that the Purpose and Role of Government is to provide for all of our needs in a libertine behavior world, when you strip out all of the yammering, this note writer’s message gets stripped down to telling Mommy “how mean it is that some faceless bureaucrat isn’t going to go grab some money from a taxpayer, run to the pharmacy, purchase her contraceptives, and deliver them straight away”. Oh, to be sure, there is gonna be some Progressive out there screaming “How dare you deny us, you discriminator!”.
Put a sock in it as I’m not interested in your whining any more.
You know, this is one time that I HAVE to actually agree with the Obama Campaign and applaud them for finally getting it right (even though they think this is a slap at Mitt)! They finally place the responsibility on the right folks: family. If the Child that wrote this note cannot afford their own needs, at least they did the right thing and turned to her parents. That’s the proper thing to do instead of making your problem the problem of everyone else in Society.
But still, the outsized sense of mentality is still present: “I deserve it from taxpayers”. The entitlement mentality that the Obama campaign is driving is yet one more step in destroying the sense of self-responsibility and the formerly common attitude of “Adults take care of themselves”. They seemingly have no shame in permanently permanently infantilizing Society (which is, BTW, how Progressives see us all anywho – as children that are incapable of making our own way in life without their constant help and kvetching like an ever present Mom). What will the Democrats do when this becomes “a permanent “I’m not my problem but a problem for everyone else to provide for me”? Congratulations Democrats – you have expanded the sense of entitlement to yet another whole class of dependents. Once again, we see the Collectivist overruling Individual Freedom and economic / religious Liberty – and what is the ultimate end point?
I always thought that Self-Reliance was a NH Value. I always thought that Frugalness was a NH Value; if you didn’t have, you did without but seemingly, no more. Certainly, those are TEA Party Values. Expecting / demanding that someone else be responsible for your well-being? That’s NOT a NH Value; its only a Value to those that want Government to completely override what used to be civil Society. That would be a NH Democrat value.
Hope her mom tells her off: “Get out of my retirement fund – buy your own stuff or start practicing self-control (I raised you better than to be in thrall to your urges anyways – GROW UP!)”. And it goes double for the boys (certainly not acting like grown up Gentlemen!) as well – keep it zipped (not that a whole lot of you wear your pants in such a way to make a difference nowadays).
(H/T: Newsbusters)
