It's all a bunch of baloney!

“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”

Tom Krouse

For weeks now, I have tried to avoid watching the news or going on social media.

The news no longer updates me on significant events. Not unlike social media, the news is just a bunch of nonsense pushing a particular agenda.

It's not easy tuning all of this out.

A hard as I try it manages to pop up in my face making it unavoidable.

This morning was no different.

I opened my emails as I do daily. There was a news feed from the local newspaper.The banner headline read "Many NJ Parents wondering without schools opening, who will watch my kids."

Are you kidding me?

When did our schools become day care centers?

They are supposed to be places of education.

Not babysitting services and not soup kitchens. The idea that somehow our schools have become a social safety net for parents to be able to abdicate their responsibilities, being parents, is ludicrous!

I don't want to hear the arguments.

"Without school meals children will go hungry".

Baloney (I want to use stronger language!).

"Mom and dad have to work. Who will watch the kids?"

Not my problem!

I've been there.

I lived there for decades.

Susan stayed home to watch our kids.

When she had the opportunity to help out by working, we figured it out.

It wasn't easy.

We had tough times.

We did what we had to do to make sure our kids were fed,clothed,housed and cared for.

Admittedly,I am not proud of all of my choices, many questionable ones.

I did what I had to do.

We had cars repossessed.

We had power shut-off .

We had water turned off.

We almost lost the house to foreclosure.

We almost lost it to taxes.

The kids never went hungry.

They always had clothing.

They were always cared for.

Bottom line is,this is still America.

You can have anything you want.Just be careful of what it is you want.

The rest is all baloney!

I am tired of the whining.

Social injustice.

Sorry....ain't buying it.

Economic injustice.

Not buying that either.

And don't get me started on the underpaid educators of our great country.

Not when food programs and daycare are the number 1 concerns of our public schools.

Alternative schooling has been flourishing for years.

Maybe because they are concentrating on education, not on being a social safety net.

It's called personal responsibility, a concept too many have just let go of (or never had because of generations of handouts and privilege).

I don't want to be angry, however, sometimes the world leaves me no choice!