I can't say I disagree with the things you listed but society's downfall is more than a product of government greed.

Look to the way kids are raised today.

I'm reading a book call "Last Child in the Woods. (Savind our children from nature deficit disorder)" it contends that children without nature interaction grow up with many problems and learning disabilities. By taking away trees and putting up jungle jims and plastic playsets we change the way children play from imagined games and roleplay playing to a hierarky of Who can clime best. Video games require no imagination at all as they are played by specific rules and if they are not followed one can't proceed in the game.

Kids are told not to climb trees for fear of lawsuits. Trees are taken out of parks for fear they will be climbed.

Kids don't play togeather any more unless they are hooked togeather with a personal video game and once again they are playing against eachother in a hiearchy of who's better.

Long gone are the days of wandering outside with a baseball glove till you bumbed into enough neighbourhood kids to play a pickup game. These kids don't even own a glove unless is an electronic controlel for the interactive game wi in witch one needs no one else to play with.

Kids don't even know how to speak to each other because all they do is stay indoors and Text or MSN Message to each other with emoticons and bad spelling (LOL LMAO BRB L8TER)>

Schools will keep the kids in if it is raining for god's sake.
Inside with all those manmade chemical laden air where it is toxic.


And as I said before parenting is not what it was before. Most kids only have one parent involved in thier life now. I think that too many young ladies are getting pregnant thinking that they can raise a child alone and it will be fine. A child needs influence from both a woman and a man to become a whole balenced person. With the cost of living what it is the average person needs to work over 44 hours to make rent and eat no time for kids so buy them a video game to spend thier time with.Theres no time to cook a nutricious meal and sit with them to eat teaching them the maners and social skills they should learn to interact with others later in life.So give them a microwave meal and the meassage that I'm to busy for you. When was the last time you saw a kid and parent on thier lawn playing catch or road hockey?


It's easy to blame George Bush for the downfall of society but harder to look at ourselves.