raydawg wrote on 09/05/15 at 07:50:05:
" ... It is way harder to say NO, than yes, and we see the decay all around us, ... "
“ … It is way harder to say NO, than yes, and we see the decay all around us, it is the death knell of America. …”That is the key.
A few years ago, I managed a Trap range once a week,
One day a week, I was gone from My Business, 3 hours early,
and had to pay someone to be their for me.
We hired 12-15 year old boys and girls, As they hit 16, cars, and other boys/girls, got in the way.
Jobs were, really simple, Push down on a button, when someone said, ‘Pull’.
Put a ‘X’ on a piece of paper, when the bird was hit,
Pick up, empty hulls that were on the ground,
Sort the hulls, in down time, Pick up any trash left laying about,
Sweeping the clubhouse, etc. (Real easy stuff)
Their were paid, 5.00 a hour, (I think at that time Mim wage was 5.50-6.00 +/-)
They got a 1/2 hour break, (job was from 5-10PM),
which I gave them a, FREE, hot dog/pop/candy bar.
Needed 7, After the first night, called them all in, said, ’NAMES”,
‘You worked good’, ‘you worked bad’,
’Next week, you will all work good’
‘If you work bad, don’t bother coming back because you are fired’.
(First two weeks were, ‘practice’,
points started for, ‘league shooting’, on the 3rd time)
Every year, Always fired, 1 or 2, and sometimes it was a scramble,
and I filled in for a missing person. but usually by week 3, things were in order.
Week 4, called them all in and said.
If you get here Between 4 & 4:30,
You will get ONE found of free trap, free shells, and if you don’t have a gun, a ’Trap’ gun to use, free’
By week 6, ALL of them showed up early, to shoot.
What happened to all the, ‘fired’ ones? Don’t know
Do know, that 5 of them, came back the next years,
and their work was stellar.
Small town I grew up in, (about 1,500 pop),
their were two houses, that, bags of food, just mysteriously would show up on their steps.
Most everyone had a garden, and most everyone would buy, a extra can of soup, or boxes of something when they shopped.
As a small boy I remember, my Mother buying things, at the grocery store, that we never saw or ate.
It wasn’t till years later, found out where those things went.
The point is, People CARED. They were NOT, LAZY.
Today, is is So Much Easier, to just give, a few extra dollars, in taxes,
to the, ‘gubermant’, and say: “Here You Do It”.
Then they, can tell everybody, how much they, ‘Care’.
When, if the extra money/food/etc, they gave, went DIRECTLY, to someone who needed help,
It would, ACTUALLY, Help !
Today, the only requirement, is to say one word, (and it doesn’t even have to be in English) and it is:
GIMMIE
Lot’s of people need help, and NO PROBLEM, helping people that, ‘do’ need help.
But 3/4’s of the people getting, ‘help’ of one kind or the other, (from the ‘guberment’)
DO NOT NEED IT.
They get it, JUST, because they say, Gimme, Gimme, GIMMIE.
And that goes for, the people, next door, who sit on their porch all day,
to the countries who get BILLIONS, for, ‘gold toilette seats’, for their Dictators,
To, (some), ‘guberment’ workers, who, ‘Do Nothing’, and Know, they will Never get Fired.
Change that, and this country, can, ‘again’, be strong.
But to, change that, one has to Put DOWN the Pizza, turn OFF the T.V. re-runs, and DO something.
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