When both parents are required to hold down several jobs to make ends meet, parenting can no longer be a priority. With today’s economy, couples shouldn’t even consider having kids unless they are financially capable of sustaining at least one full time disciplinarian at home. Gone are the days of the common family farm. Gone are the days when the average man made enough money, so the wife could watch over the kids. Those family freedoms were lost years ago. Anybody win the Mega Millions yet?
If I can give out likes like the Mega-Millions - all of you would share the wealth with me...
I'm glad to see this type of post, for it addresses many issues todays' Millennial's have forgotten or ignored and yet - C'est la vie - parenting skills seem to be a lost art. You think this is easy on the rest of us?
We've seen programs like CPS come into play, and literally take the play right out of the fabric of family. Are the days of neighbor helping neighbor fading as distant dream? Is it, at the same time, taken the ability of allowing the neighbors to help raise the children of those neighbors? Does anyone remember? Has everyone forgotten how to obtain the skills they needed to maintain and support the community? We helped each other.
It used to be; that to be successful you waited to have a family knowing that as a single individual - how hard it is to survive in a cruel and insensitive world. Now, there may be some sense of community, but it may need to be refined into a definition of commiseration and platonic, cationic states of being - nothing to do except to live, and to do that, their hands reach out for services we only wished we had. But, even in the 1990's just less than two decades ago, we worked, survived within our means and lived without. Something happened.
When you take parents out of the home and into the workforce to obtain the standard of living they once had - I don't think that is the correct story. It's more like the needy child in the family is unable to process the family function because of the social needs take precedent over the needs of the very child you're exposing it to.
Now the parents need to forage for wealth and income to sustain the childs' insatiable desire to be more that it is, but to become that, it needs to find itself and how it can fit into the world. Not the other way around.
How does this fit the FCC requirement?
Well, we listened to radio - that wireless wonder - then TV then we had Cell onto Smartphones. Now our entire lives can be spent in one room visiting others in a Virtual world that is far less stressful and goes against our own innate nature to explore our environment. We lose our way to learn the very skills we need to socialize, communicate and become productive members to a means of country and nation to support itself and provide the world with an example of living we only once dreamed about. In the physical world.
Ok, now we need to explore why we need more power - or did we just get lazy and forget to remember our past and how we got here?
Now, I'm not going to drag you all thru the Garden of Grief and Sidewalks of Sorrow, we can do that ourselves in our own time - when were not buried in our headsets and tiny phone screens - it may take a while to get out of that niche - but the sooner the better.
Here's the stark reality - there is always a bigger fish.
We have seen the lackadaisical attitudes of the FCC towards the individuals that were bullied by the bigger fishes in the sea. What does that tell you? It means the biggest fish that is responsible for your ability to even have a radio let alone talk on it, does not care for you - or your bully - it's too big to care.
So there's' the crux of the problem - why do you need more power - because others have done it and taken your rights of QRP or simplex - away from you and those like you?
I guess we NEED to discuss this...
