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We need to put child labor back into place in the US.
Before you all flame me... read the whole post.
Today's US kids have no respect for money and they have no work ethic. Most of the kids we turn out today grow up to be ignorant people who are always looking for shortcuts through everything they do from driving to working to keeping house to retirement. From cradle to grave, they are looking for every possible shortcut, every possible handout and every possible way to get money without actually working.
As kids, they have 100s and sometimes even 1000s of plastic toys with which to play with. They did nothing to earn them and when they break they belive they are entitled to have a new one provided by thier parents. And if you dont replace them, you're in for it. And some professionals and busy-body child welfare agencies look at it this way too.
I remember a case where child welfare was trying to take kids out of a home because the parents had refused to let them watch TV, eat junk food or "socialize" (read: become a delinquient in the streets). They made the kids read constantly or listen to the radio, only eat decent foood and they were allowed to associate only with people approved of by thier parents.
The fact of the matter is kids dont learn the lessons of earning a dollar anymore. Child labor forced them to learn those lessons whether they wanted to or not. If you give a kid a choice, they'll always take the lazy way out.
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