Saturday, December 27, 2008

A nation bursting with spoiled brats - by Patrice Lewis

The following are some of the quotes from this great column by Patrice Lewis:

We want the government to give us stuff for free, stuff like health care and housing, food and employment. These are things that earlier generations knew were our own personal responsibility to provide for ourselves.

Instead we prefer to whine and gripe and moan our way to socialism because we've become a nation of professional victims.

Patrice continues on:
To quote this YouTube clip, everything is amazing right now and nobody's happy. We live in an incredible world, and it's wasted on us. How quickly we have come to think the world owes us something. Why are we no longer falling down in gratitude for our prosperity and relative affluence? [Continue reading]

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