Been saving this blog for a day when republicans weren't getting their asses kicked

On sunday, after I tuned up my car, went to the ping pong club, watched the steelers game, and ate dinner, I decided to do some work in the house. I left the TV on for background noise, and 60 minutes was on. I don't really know what they were talking about in 60 minutes, but it seemed like a mish mash of ship building, and child labor, and american companies loosing money. Of course, while cleaning grout off my tile, I had much time to think about the subject.

I'm a little irritated with america's shift towards babying every human being that is younger than 18 years old. This country was founded on child labor, and in fact, our school years are designed in such a way that our children could work on farms during the summer months. Now, we, as americans seem to condemn child labor, or anything else that might be considered cruel to children. WTF?

When I was a kid, I remember getting home from school, and being unsupervised at home for an hour or so until my mom got home from work. I don't know why she trusted me and shayna to not burn the house down, and I'm even a little more confused as to why I never tried. I was at a super market the other day where a kid was sitting in a child seat in a car outside and some lady wanted to call the police because the kid was alone. Seriously? That's stupid. If you can't leave a kid alone in a car these days, then who is going to do all the irritating unsupervised horn honking? I know, I know, new yorkers....

Furthermore, I had a paper route when I was old enough to carry a bag full of papers. I continued having a paper route for a long time. That paper route paid for a lot of things that I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. Like, my first portable CD player, and my cracker CD, my super nintendo, mortal kombat, etc.. On top of that, I used to deliver pizza outlet flyers for good ol' harry ablak. Harry paid cash, and gave me free pizza. There isn't much that I like more than pizza and money so it was a good arrangement. Of course, I blame my current spending patterns(impusive and excessive) on the fact that I always had the money to buy things I wanted.

My parents told me all about strangers, and looking both ways before you cross the street, and not to play with fire(a lesson that I only learned well enough to never cause any serious damage, I like fire), not to touch electric sockets(I still tried a couple times), not to stick forks in the microwave, or leave the oven on, and a myriad of other "we have to work and we don't want you to do stupid shit lessons", and for the most part, I only did stupid shit sometimes.

I played a lot of video games when I was a kid too, but video games were something that were saved for rainy days, or after it got dark. I was always outside playing in some mud puddle somewhere(probably lighting things on fire). Kids today sit on their computers and instant message their friends all day, they have zero responsibility, and their parents don't make them get jobs so they just get everything handed to them. This generation of kids is going to be worthless in about 10 years. I promise.