Great Job Mom!!

By now, you probably heard of the mother who put her 2 son's toys on ebay because they damaged her bathtub with those toys.

This article  explains it. 

I refuse to put photos of the children up on my blog, but you can see the ad in the article. The ad includes a photo of her 2 children holding up the toys on sale, with the older child crying and obviously distraught.

Her description reads:

"We are selling 8 Beyblades, 2 of them light up. As you can tell they are not happy about this! They have been using their bathtub as a "battle arena" and Beyblades + Bathtub = Destruction!!! With the metal ones they managed to scrape the enamel off the tub, take a chunk of tub out and break off the soap holder. SO if you 'win' this auction DON'T play with in a bathtub!!! We have received a quote of $500.00 to replace the tub, some tiles, and soap holder + labor of course! They had approximately $125.67 in their piggy banks that will be going to toward the cost. We will use the profit from this auction towards the balance and then it is onto other toys!

My opinion?? FANTASTIC! What a great way to teach your children that for every action comes consequences. These children are old enough to know what's right from wrong. By selling the toys, and also using the money in their piggy banks towards the cost of repairing the bathtub- these children are learning a valuable lesson. They will think twice about doing something like that again.

I'm not surprised that there were numerous comments condemning this mother and calling it harsh, too much. Some suggested a "time out" would suffice. Some even went as far as to accuse the mother of robbing them of their childhood! That is what's wrong with society today. Lots of parents don't discipline their children or teach them any responsibility.

Although I disagree with the mother posting an actual photo of her children up on the world wide web, I admire her for correcting and disciplining her children. The mother did not beat her children and I highly doubt her children will be traumatized by this. I think this was the perfect punishment. Way to go mom!!!

They have no idea

I despise reality shows and I cannot tolerate reading nor watching anything that has to do with celebrities, wannabe "celebrities", and rich, spoiled kids. There are some exceptions of course such as Joaquin Phoenix or Bob Barker, who have dedicated their time, donated their money, and utilized their "celebrity-ism" in campaigns against animal cruelty.

Back to my rant. Jersey Shore is stupid, Khloe & Lamar is stupid, The Rich Housewives of {insert city here} is stupid, Keeping up with the Kardashians is stupid, Kate plus 8 is stupid, The Bachelor is stupid. It's ALL stupid. These people get paid to create drama and to show the world how materialistic, ignorant, selfish, lazy, apathetic, and clueless they can be. Their lavish lifestyles are SO different from what many Americans live. Why do people watch that trash?

It sometimes is close to impossible to go on the interwebz or turn on the television without having to hear, see, or read about celebrities and rich heiresses, rich prince and princesses, who have NO IDEA what it is like to live out in the REAL WORLD. 

In a nutshell, my blood boils when I read about this :

A 20 something year old heiress who has never worked a day in her life buys a $150 million dollar mansion:

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while the rest of the US has to deal with this:

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and this....

Then I hear about 4 year old Suri Cruise's $3.2 MILLION - to rumored up to $13 MILLION dollar wardrobe....

While OTHER children in the world endure this until they die....

photo credits: searched on google images

This is yet another post as to why I turned agnostic......

It's just not fair.

Reaction to Financial Crisis

The Pimienta Family

James Richard Verone (bank robber) & Alfredo/Georgina Pimienta (suspected of murdering their 2 children before both committing suicide. What do these folks have in common?

The failing economy caused them to act in drastic ways. 

Let's back up. James Richard Verone, age 59, robbed a bank for $1 in order to get medical care that he desperately needed. He handed the bank teller a note demanding $1, waited for the police to arrive, and asked to go to jail so that they could address his medical concerns. He had worked for Coca-cola for 17 years, was laid off, and due to physical ailments, could not perform at his part-time job. 

Mr. Verone, suffered from back pain, pain in his left foot, arthritis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and a protrusion on his chest. He had no healthcare insurance, and news report indicate that he did not qualify for social security nor disability. His health plummeted and became unbearable to the point where he decided his only way to receive the health care he urgently needed was to rob a bank.

The Pimienta Family

Alfredo, 44, and Georgina Pimienta, 38, shared their single-story home with their daughters, Priscilla, 17, and Emily, 9. San Diego police found the family all dead in their home last month. Further investigation has many suspecting that Mr. Pimienta killed his wife and children before committing suicide. Suicide notes found in the home indicate that the parents may have planned this murder-suicide. Why? Family have reported that the family, along with experiencing personal tragedy, were also struggling financially.

I could continue. But I won't. There are many more similar stories of how financial despair have caused many people to commit suicide. They have caused others to rob banks, burglarize people, and turn to crime.

I urge you to read this article from 2009: The Financial Crisis Is Driving Hordes of Americans to Suicide

and also read some of the comments by others in response to article: Rising suicide rate worldwide linked to economic crisis, experts say. Their comments only confirmed my belief that this world is a mess and that there is no god.

The rich run America. The rich run the world. The rich also don't have to worry about not having enough money to see a doctor, or not having enough money to pay their mortgage. This world is evil.  More importantly, how can America allow this to happen?

In my opinion, Mr. & Mrs. Pimienta did their children a favor. Out of love, they selflessly ended their children's lives so that the children would not have to suffer and endure the unfairness and atrocities of this world. 

Foreign Aid

I read this article on yahoo yesterday. It may or may not be relevant, but it brought to my mind the subject of foreign aid. I am against excessive foreign aid. I am against foreign aid completely to countries that don't need it.  If you do enough research you will find that the USA spends about 19 BILLION dollars annually on foreign aid. The current public debt of the USA as I write this is $14,344,559,511,924.92. That's over 14 Trillion dollars. Why the aid when we are clearly already in debt?

We have prison overpopulation, teachers getting laid off, public schools with the ratio of 40 children to 1 teacher. When I was a child, there were 20 students in my class. Not anymore. Public schools have become places for teachers to baby-sit. There is no way that teachers can effectively teach 40 children. Our children are getting stupid. We have increased crime rate, constant lay-offs, and our country is in a state of economic crisis. The state I live in is in a recession. Tuition for public universities have increased. USA has problems with homelessness, not enough jobs, and home foreclosures. There are children and families living in dilapidated neighborhoods. We need welfare reform and illegal immigrants are coming in the country at an astounding rate and lack of funding in the appropriate sectors to stop it. 

We have the rich getting richer and the poor getting more poor.  People driving with no car insurance because they can't afford it. Americans with NO medical insurance. There are greedy CEO's and big companies that lay off thousands of hard working employees, forcing the remaining employees to work even harder. Louisiana still has not fully recovered from Hurricane Katrina yet we send aid to Japan? It's a nice gesture and all except I'm confident that Japan (whale killing country) is fully capable of recovering and rebuilding after the tsunami without the help of the USA. I can go on and on and on....

My point: Before the USA should be giving out money to foreign countries. Perhaps Mr. Obama and crew should be using that money and fixing the problems at home first. And America, has A LOT of problems.