Comments about ‘Youths in sad state’

By the tone of your letter one could discern we are becoming a third world country due to those who refuse to be educated.(25% drop out rate) That could indeed happen which fits in nicely with the radical lefts agenda. They are opposed to freedom and individual liberty. Just take a look at what is being done at our nations capitol.

the ones that don't make it are YOUR children. Hmm.

Yes, I agree, but what is your solution? Spending cuts are forcing schools to drop P.E., and the big food business does not want their profits affected by education about the harm of fast food. Maybe this is an issue of long-term national security. Maybe we have allowed big business too much latitude for the sake of profits.

Hey, they're pretty good at gaming, though.

I agree with “wait” why is it the letter writer and every other post on this thread want to externalize blame, this is our country we are all responsible for making it work. Instead of playing these childish games maybe the adults in this country need to stand up and start acting like adults instead of blaming each other and playing childish games.

BACK UP a few decades. In the 70's it was the Alice Paul / Molly Yard radical feminist movement, along with their dirty dozen, that worked hard to do what Hitler did, break apart the Family Unit as a whole, through no-fault divorce, keeping "The Father" out of the life of his kid's, the Demo's were for it to, it creats another problem, where they can build a larger government of more bureaucrat's in that divorce racket. Gang's started to raise those kid's as their father figure. Everything in TV ad's was about 3 thing's, fat, salt and sugar, for the munchies etc., and the GOP also went along, in the name of "let's do it for the children". The results, 75 percent of youths today are unfit for military service because of poor education, obesity, drugs, criminal records and physical ailments, one in four between the ages of 17 and 24 does not have a high school diploma. This is a problem that our local, state and national leaders seem to ignore, BECAUSE of this divorce racket and STILL put on the bottom of their priority lists. ANY QUESTIONs?.

A more significant discussion would be to delve into the reasons why our fair State is last in the Nation in military enlistments.

Because Grover, the Mormons send their kids on missions. But you already know this. Just another swipe at Utah.

I would think it's perfectly normal that many 17-year-olds don't have a HS diploma--I didn't turn 18 until the summer after I graduated, and most of my classmates were older than me!

Today's teens use drugs at a lower rate than their parents did. They smoke less, they drink less. The teen pregnancy rate is down. The teen crime rate is down. There is always good and bad happening in our world. Don't fixate exclusively on the bad.

Part II - from Brother Chuck Schroeder | 8:16 a.m. Nov. 17, 2009

Did YOU KNOW,(shortly after VP Dan Quayle's speech), in 1995, the Mormon Church, came out with "The Family", a Proclamation to the world?.

How SOON does Utah forget?. VP Dan Quayle. In modern America taking on a popular TV character, even a fictional one, is politically more precarious than taking a clear stand on a substantive campaign issue. And yet the Vice President dared to argue last week in a San Francisco speech that the Los Angeles riots were caused in part by a "poverty of values" that included the acceptance of unwed motherhood, as celebrated in popular culture by the CBS comedy series Murphy Brown. The title character, a divorced news anchorwoman, got pregnant and chose to have the baby, a boy, who was delivered on last Monday's episode, watched by 38 million Americans. "It doesn't help matters," Quayle complained, when Brown, "a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid professional woman" is portrayed as "mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another life-style choice.


Am I not right again?.

amen brother, you preach the truth!!!

well you are right, except that Murphy Brown was a terrible show, and if you got your morals or values from it there is a deeper issue at hand. MUCH deeper.

My kids lugged 150+# loads up the mountain in October, were able to hike miles and miles with old Dad doing his best to keep up, and the 2 oldest have graduated high school with Associate degrees from college and the youngest is on track to do so also. Their friends are almost all of the same caliber, and we have a basement full of them all the time. The world if full of great kids! Of course there is substantial parent involvement....(the root of the solution?)

@grover: I have no problem with religious folk sending their kids or going themselves on missions. Also it is a free country and currently it is up to each citizen to decide if they choose to serve in the armed services. What I don't get is the sky high level of patriotic blather that is posted here and elsewhere on a daily basis. Since I have not "been there", I try to keep my mouth shut when it comes to military issues. Is it too much to ask that the local flag wavers do the same?

This is another sure sign of the times. Prepare for it.

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re: brother chuck schroeder | 11:48 a.m. Nov. 17, 2009

amen brother, you preach the truth!!! RE: Chuck | 12:37 p.m. Nov. 17, 2009





Thank you!.