Death of America?

I live in a small town. I think it's hay day was back in the fifties. I saw a picture book of my town in an antique mall. It was dated 1937. This town was a happening place. It had a few factories, large medical facility, a very large high school. The square was the place to be. The square and the roads around the square had business all around.

Then back in the 60's the highway was put in. It roughly followed Route 66 in this part of the country. It made a loop around the town and we have two exits. One east of town and one west end of town. Both on the same road.

Business started building up on the loop as it is called. But most of these died out and the square has pretty much died out. We lost the walk in movie theater. We lost the Drive - In Movie. We lost the bowling alley. The churches have sprung up but the places to go are gone. We have to travel 25 miles one way and 35 miles the other to get to any decent shopping and dinning.

The only decent business around are the Medical facility and the school district. There are some medium sized business around but nothing that would be considered a great place to work. Everyone just scratching out a living in their own little world.

You just don't see neighbors being neighborly. There are a few but I could count on one hand.

I also remember that when I was in school and did bad I got a spanking. Today some of these kids kick, bite and spit on teachers and there is nothing that can be done about it. The parents think of school as a baby sitting service, and refuse to hear the truth about how their kid is growing up to be a looser.

No family time, Just I want that playstation 3 or xbox 360 or wii. In some cases they want all three. As parents we need to take time out to spend time with our kids and not their looser friends. Most kids want to be in the in crowd. That means sex, drugs and B&E.

I find myself on the loosing side. There are more loosers here than workers. The only thing around here are kids driving around town throwing cinder blocks from their trucks to see what kinda damage they can do to other cars and trucks.

When the kids are found out they belong to the upper class of town. Not the low life that you would expect. That is because the low lifes cannot afford a truck, beer to get high on or cinder blocks to throw at other vehicles. These upper class kids have money, and plenty of time and most of friends that will do these crimes in a heartbeat just to stay friends with these upper class kids.

Problems are the parents. "Not my kid." Yes your low life kid did this. If you just stop throwing money at the problem and started using a belt things just may come out alot different.

Government is to blame for the death of America. Sticking their noses into everyones business. You can't spank this kid, you can't yell at this kid, you can't punish this kid. These kids have rights. Well, if the government wants to rule what my kid can and cannot do, let them raise them. They won't, they just want you to do it their way.

I know parents that refuse to spank their kids. They seem to think that their kid will find the right way without road signs. There kids are out of control.

They are monsters. I will have nothing to do with these kids, or their parents. They refuse to hear how rotten their kids have gotten. They turn a blind eye to what their kids do. A think they will see their kids behind prision bars for killing someone, just because they refused to put some discipline in their family.

This country is falling apart because Uncle Sam wants his 58% of what you make and control on how you do everything else.

These are things that I notice.

Carl.