Responsibilty

[Fishy]

This is not a rant. I'm merely pointing out the change in mentality among some people these days. I can't quite put my finger on when this started, but it's at the point now of being an epidemic. It has become unfortunate that once common things like RESPONSIBILITY have almost disappeared. If you are WRONG you are WRONG. If you committed a crime or crimes YOU did it.

The John Wiley scandals are a good example of this. To try and excuse their dishonest and deceptive ways they are quick to make a lot of noise and claim it's Bush tactics being used or it's THEM trying to bring us down.

There's another man who has often done things to try and get by with the least effort on certain things. When he broke a window on a neighbor's house and tried to get out of accepting responsibility for it, he immediately began to use the same tactic that JWP and his supporters use. Once again, the same old, tired response of trying to blame somebody else was used. His children are of course programmed the same way.

[Widowmaker]

Obama is teaching this fact daily!

[elf feet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bavou_SEj1E

[elkbowhunter]

sor sure hard to figure.

[hcshooter]

It is a growing epidemic for sure. Sad part is more and more parents are not making or teaching their kids to take responsibility so this carries on throughout the kids lives into adulthood.
What happened to the ethics of how we were raised and taking responsibility or taking it upon ones self to be responsible not only for ones actions but to see things through.
Its a dying aspect of life and very sad to see.

[Mudslinger]

Finding a person that takes responsibility for anything today is a rarity. Why do it when the "so called leader" of our country has never taken responsibility for anything. Pathetic.

[GarGuy]

Its largely our fault. We worked hard and suffered for what we have so our children wont have to go through what we did. The end result is a generation of entitled youth that have never had to take responsibility for anything. A Government entitlement culture has the same result. Let me tell you a story about someone I know and love...

There was this young gal 18 years old who fell in love with a total goober of a guy and married him despite being advised to wait. Then she got pregnant despite advice. I helped them get a car, and furniture for an apartment they rented and pulled strings to get him a GOOD job. Shortly, said goober did something really stupid and went to prison just before the baby was born. Now she has a new baby, no job or education, no husband and nowhere to go. All of this was forseeable and a direct result of irresponsibility but it didn't stop there.

My wife and I let her move in my home with the baby and keep the car. She made a few friends and started hanging out with them. 7 months later she was PREGNANT again! I let her stay until the baby was born. Now she has been there 1.5 years and making no signs of progress. We helped he get grant money and enrolled in nursing school as well and insisted she get a job. The grant also covered daycare for the children and required she maintain a certain number of hours.

A year into this, I gave her 6 weeks to find an apartment. 5 weeks later, I made a deposit on a nice place for her and moved all that nice furniture I had bought her out of storage. She was WIZZED! LOL We had her on her feet. Decent job with a future at a nursing home, daycare provided, nursing school paid for, nice car, and a respectable place to live. Did I say she was WIZZED???? It seems she would have been eternally gratefull for living 2.5 years in my house with no responsibility and having everything provided but NO! She couldn't believe it when the end of my 6 week deadline arrived too move out and cut all ties knowing we were deeply attached to those babies.

6 months later,I got a letter from Lufkin PD about my abandoned vehicle. as it stayed in my name. I went to get it and almost didn't recognize it. It was abandoned in front of the apartment complex and the manager had called it in. No tires, battery gone, windows broken, and dents all around. I spoke to the apartment manager and he said she was living there with some guy and that they were 4 months behind on rent when he sent them a final eviction notice. They moved out in the middle of the night and left all the furniture which he sold.

This long story is to say...Everything I did for her was a detriment to her success because she took no responsibility for herself and I enabled that. Im proud to say that since then, she went back to school, got a degree, married a great guy, got a good job and is doing well. That NEVER would have happened had I not forced her to deal with the results of her actions either good or bad.

[Txbownut]

Its largely our fault. We worked hard and suffered for what we have so our children wont have to go through what we did. The end result is a generation of entitled youth that have never had to take responsibility for anything. A Government entitlement culture has the same result. Let me tell you a story about someone I know and love...

There was this young gal 18 years old who fell in love with a total goober of a guy and married him despite being advised to wait. Then she got pregnant despite advice. I helped them get a car, and furniture for an apartment they rented and pulled strings to get him a GOOD job. Shortly, said goober did something really stupid and went to prison just before the baby was born. Now she has a new baby, no job or education, no husband and nowhere to go. All of this was forseeable and a direct result of irresponsibility but it didn't stop there.

My wife and I let her move in my home with the baby and keep the car. She made a few friends and started hanging out with them. 7 months later she was PREGNANT again! I let her stay until the baby was born. Now she has been there 1.5 years and making no signs of progress. We helped he get grant money and enrolled in nursing school as well and insisted she get a job. The grant also covered daycare for the children and required she maintain a certain number of hours.

A year into this, I gave her 6 weeks to find an apartment. 5 weeks later, I made a deposit on a nice place for her and moved all that nice furniture I had bought her out of storage. She was WIZZED! LOL We had her on her feet. Decent job with a future at a nursing home, daycare provided, nursing school paid for, nice car, and a respectable place to live. Did I say she was WIZZED???? It seems she would have been eternally gratefull for living 2.5 years in my house with no responsibility and having everything provided but NO! She couldn't believe it when the end of my 6 week deadline arrived too move out and cut all ties knowing we were deeply attached to those babies.

6 months later,I got a letter from Lufkin PD about my abandoned vehicle. as it stayed in my name. I went to get it and almost didn't recognize it. It was abandoned in front of the apartment complex and the manager had called it in. No tires, battery gone, windows broken, and dents all around. I spoke to the apartment manager and he said she was living there with some guy and that they were 4 months behind on rent when he sent them a final eviction notice. They moved out in the middle of the night and left all the furniture which he sold.

This long story is to say...Everything I did for her was a detriment to her success because she took no responsibility for herself and I enabled that. Im proud to say that since then, she went back to school, got a degree, married a great guy, got a good job and is doing well. That NEVER would have happened had I not forced her to deal with the results of her actions either good or bad.

Garguy, you're a saint! You've given me some hope. I have a 22 year old step daughter that is pretty close to the same boat that young lady was in. Fortunately, she has no children yet. She was raised right (she's been mine since she was 8), her mother and I both work hard and have tried to teach her responsibility, but she just will not get off her lazy butt! She has had trouble with the law lately and spent Thanksgiving last year in jail. I told her mom it was time to cut off any support, so there she sat. She has no job, but somehow she has a cell phone, a computer, and cigarettes. Her granddad bought her a car because he said she couldn't get a job without a way to work. I will give him that, but I have told him not to support her bad habits. I am frustrated as heck. I love her and want the best for her, but she refuses to take any responsibility for her actions. Hopefully she will eventually grow up. I have a son that is working two jobs and studying his butt off in college. Night and day difference. So tell me how that happens. One is very responsible, and one is on the path to the penitentiary, and they both were raised in the same house. I just don't get it.

[dbaio1]

Obama is teaching this fact daily!

He is a Muslim supporting the jihad agenda

[GarGuy]

Garguy, you're a saint! You've given me some hope. I have a 22 year old step daughter that is pretty close to the same boat that young lady was in. Fortunately, she has no children yet. She was raised right (she's been mine since she was 8), her mother and I both work hard and have tried to teach her responsibility, but she just will not get off her lazy butt! She has had trouble with the law lately and spent Thanksgiving last year in jail. I told her mom it was time to cut off any support, so there she sat. She has no job, but somehow she has a cell phone, a computer, and cigarettes. Her granddad bought her a car because he said she couldn't get a job without a way to work. I will give him that, but I have told him not to support her bad habits. I am frustrated as heck. I love her and want the best for her, but she refuses to take any responsibility for her actions. Hopefully she will eventually grow up. I have a son that is working two jobs and studying his butt off in college. Night and day difference. So tell me how that happens. One is very responsible, and one is on the path to the penitentiary, and they both were raised in the same house. I just don't get it.

Im guessing she learned how to game your system at about 8.5 years old. It will never improve until she is forced to face responsibility for her actions and that's going to be bumpy for you and your wife,

[elkbowhunter]

Its largely our fault. We worked hard and suffered for what we have so our children wont have to go through what we did. The end result is a generation of entitled youth that have never had to take responsibility for anything. A Government entitlement culture has the same result. Let me tell you a story about someone I know and love...

There was this young gal 18 years old who fell in love with a total goober of a guy and married him despite being advised to wait. Then she got pregnant despite advice. I helped them get a car, and furniture for an apartment they rented and pulled strings to get him a GOOD job. Shortly, said goober did something really stupid and went to prison just before the baby was born. Now she has a new baby, no job or education, no husband and nowhere to go. All of this was forseeable and a direct result of irresponsibility but it didn't stop there.

My wife and I let her move in my home with the baby and keep the car. She made a few friends and started hanging out with them. 7 months later she was PREGNANT again! I let her stay until the baby was born. Now she has been there 1.5 years and making no signs of progress. We helped he get grant money and enrolled in nursing school as well and insisted she get a job. The grant also covered daycare for the children and required she maintain a certain number of hours.

A year into this, I gave her 6 weeks to find an apartment. 5 weeks later, I made a deposit on a nice place for her and moved all that nice furniture I had bought her out of storage. She was WIZZED! LOL We had her on her feet. Decent job with a future at a nursing home, daycare provided, nursing school paid for, nice car, and a respectable place to live. Did I say she was WIZZED???? It seems she would have been eternally gratefull for living 2.5 years in my house with no responsibility and having everything provided but NO! She couldn't believe it when the end of my 6 week deadline arrived too move out and cut all ties knowing we were deeply attached to those babies.

6 months later,I got a letter from Lufkin PD about my abandoned vehicle. as it stayed in my name. I went to get it and almost didn't recognize it. It was abandoned in front of the apartment complex and the manager had called it in. No tires, battery gone, windows broken, and dents all around. I spoke to the apartment manager and he said she was living there with some guy and that they were 4 months behind on rent when he sent them a final eviction notice. They moved out in the middle of the night and left all the furniture which he sold.

This long story is to say...Everything I did for her was a detriment to her success because she took no responsibility for herself and I enabled that. Im proud to say that since then, she went back to school, got a degree, married a great guy, got a good job and is doing well. That NEVER would have happened had I not forced her to deal with the results of her actions either good or bad.

Its pretty much what happens when people take their eyes off of God and replace HIM with things and become self righteous. I hear a lot about being ALL IN FOR JESUS these days. When the truth is....if you are 95% all in for Christ you are not ALL IN for Christ. 2nd Chronicles 7:14 always comes to mind about why things are the way they are.


2 Chronicles 7:14
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

[Playa]

Good grief lack of responsibility for ones actions has been in existence since man first roamed the earth.

For his own sin, Adam blamed the woman first, and then God for giving him the woman.

Lack of responsibility is nothing new.

[Lockpro]

[GarGuy]

EBH, who are you talking about? Im sure you mean well but Im having trouble finding it. Are you 100?

[elkbowhunter]

not quite 100 but on the way