Let's start thinking about things....

As my wife and I took a walk tonight a conversation started up about the things we see in this world every day. This started because I walked past a fire hydrant, right beside the fire station, that has had a steady stream of water running out of it for at least 2 months now. As I walked by it again tonight I asked the question...."Who is paying for all this water that is just running down the street?" I know if I had a steady stream of water running out of my house I would sure be getting billed for it. And my guess is that somehow I am paying for the water coming out of this hydrant too. But I also asked another question...WHY?...Why is this water just running out like this. How many people in our own country don't have clean...running...water to drink. And let's not even bring up other countries that are deprived of such a privilege. But yet here we are, just letting it run out like there is always more. Cause let's be honest....that is how we think...but let's hope not all of us think that way.

If you ask my kids something about me I bet they would say I hate to waste. I hate to waste food, drink, energy.....a lot of things. And they hear it from me when they do. I am not saying I have it all figured out or I do everything exactly right. But I am saying that we should question what we see a lot more than we do. I don't want to get political with this blog and I am not out to try to get you to agree with me. I am simply challenging anyone who might read this to think. Thinking is a God given right that we don't do nearly enough of. And as you begin to think about something I have mentioned or will mention in the future, I hope it challenges you to think about other stuff you see every day. See I might not have the answers to everything I talk about, but I am hoping that by provoking thought that someone else who has the ideas, the means or the power to make changes will do just that! Let's stop accepting everything around us because it is the easy way out and let's start demanding a change for the better.

I began my talk about waste....it drives me crazy. But so does abuse..to me they go hand in hand. If you are abusing a system, or a handout, or a service you are ultimately wasting it. 

I want to state right up front that there are many, many programs out there that I am proud that my tax dollars support. I believe in helping someone in need. I believe in helping a man, woman or family get back on there feet when times get hard. And I am glad we have a country that has the ability to offer this kind of help because of the tax paying people that live in it! Having said that......let me start to talk about the things I don't believe in......

I watched a news story about 4 schools in New York that are going to offer the "morning after pill" to girls 14 and older. The school sent home info to the parents so they could "opt out" of this program. They reported that only 2%...yes 2% of the parents did opt out. So, like I stated early...I ask WHY? Why would they want this offered to their kids. Oh, and did I mention that once the programs starts that the kids can get the pill WITHOUT the parent ever having to be told. So again...why would a parent want this. BECAUSE THEY ARE LAZY! Sorry to be so blunt, but it's true. If we let the school offer this then it is one less thing as a parent that we have to worry about. Now our kids won't get pregnant and we didn't have to do a thing. It is one more thing that we can let "the system" take care of. No more worries for us. So wrong!!!! If we would spend the energy teaching our kids to save themselves and spend the time enriching their lives so they understand why then we wouldn't need this assistance from "our system"! Now, let me also challenge you with this thought. Obviously you would not need a morning after pill if it weren't for 2 different reasons. One being that you actually had sex when you shouldn't have...and two because you didn't use protection when you did decide to do it. So let's talk about reason number 2. If we have kids that need this pill cause they had unprotected sex, and now you have offered them a "free" way to not get pregnant. Then what is going to get them to use protection now. NOTHING! So don't be at all surprised when the next issue we are dealing with is rapid spread of sexually transmitted diseases. I mean come on, think about it. If these kids are willing to risk becoming pregnant and not use protection...and now you have removed "that risk", then what makes you think they will use protection now. THEY WON'T! And when that starts just remember....we enabled this! So we better start working on the next "program" take care of this problem, cause it WILL be a problem.  And by the way, this isn't going to come for free. No matter how you look at this, someone is going to end up paying for it. And my guess is that it will end up being a funded program that whether I support it or not, I will end up having to help fund. Just like so many other things that my dollar helps fund that I DO NOT agree with!

I am going to stop this blog here for now....I have so many more things to write about and I will continue these blogs as long as the thoughts...and things I am sick of...keep coming. 

Thank you for reading and I hope that you continue to read them...and you continue to think and challenge yourself of the things around you that NEED TO CHANGE.