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Originally Posted by shine

feed a young kid today and he'll go to bed happy , cut his ass off and he'll go to work when he's hungry. one of the biggest faults i see today is mom and dad bailing them out of every mess they get into. loaning money, paying for the car, paying for the insurance etc . go to a middle school and count the cell phones .

Heck Shine,
Around here the student parking lot at the high school has newer and higher dollar cars than anything in the teacher's lot. We've got little girls getting a new Beemer or Mercedes for their 16th birthday!! At the university they have a new position to deal with the parents trying to interface with the kid's teachers when little Johnny gets a below average grade... Yep, you've hit upon a big part of the problem..... How about a two year mandatory military service stint for everyone??? Sure, it costs some money, but it might straighten some kids out when they learn that they have to be responsible for their actions.

I'll chime in have been out of pocket for a while,lot's happening around here.

I visited the Tool and Die business I sold in 97 last week. It was the first time I had visited since selling. The shop foreman and one machinist were all that was still with the company. The machinist was an apprentice when I was still owner.I left with an apprentice program that I had set up in the area with local companies and ACC our local community College.

To my surprise the program had been withdrawn. I set this program up because we were having a problem finding good machinist. The forman said the program died because of lack of interest from the potential local labor pool.

A lot has changed in the last 15 years,most want to start at the top and the old school of starting out at the bottom and working up is history. As stated , trades are going,going, and gone. Sad but true.