America has changed a lot for those of us that grew up back in the good old days when you either found something to do, or got your ass kicked for what you were doing. Our parents were our role models and the theme was; do it or else. I got that at home and at school. A one-room schoolhouse with a coal bin taught me that lesson. If you are put in the coal bin for misbehaving and sit down, your parents will see that coal dust on your pants and dust it off for you with a hickory stick. That made me stand at attention several times if you know what I mean.

Things have changed a lot from those days and it is no longer about what you are willing to do, only about what it takes to appease our current day society. I miss the good old days when your parents could spank your ass and get by with it. I was always willing to do what I should have done in the first place.

We live in a different world now and this lesson seems to have been lost in the process of it all for some, but we are still here. We learned our lessons by living the American Dream first hand and not with the assistance of a governmental agency.

I’d be willing to bet I could do it again and learn something else in the process.

I belong to the coalition of the living will that makes this country what it is. It is US.

We will hang together or we will surely hang alone in the process.

JB/OUT

Contributed by Jim Bartimus on August 4, 2006 at 09:49 PM in Jim Bartimus | Permalink

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Posted by: The Gray Dog

JB,

I know that you (we) sound more like your (our) parents as the years move along. Years ago, that might have been and embarrasing comparison. Today it is an honorable one.

Keep on, keepin' on!

TGD

Posted by: The Gray Dog | Aug 4, 2006 10:38:51 PM