Posted by
Phil Haikey on Sunday, August 02, 2009 12:00:00 AM
A Nation of Whiners
I have read a news article about Trina Thompson, who recently graduated from Monroe College, in the Bronx. As the story goes Trina, spent money to go to this college to learn about information-technology. After graduating in April only three months ago in the worst economic time this country has experienced in many a decade, this whinny baby girl wants to sue the college for her inability to find a job, in the field she wants to pursue. As I understand it she feels that since she is too incompanint to find gainful employment the school owes her, her money back, and is suing for the $70,000.00 spent on tuition.
I tend to agree with poor ole whinny Trina. If the school did not teach her that:
1. No one owes her a living.
2. Going to school does not guarantee you will make a living.
3. Hard work and persistence will take you farther than whining and complaining.
4. That if you don’t take no for an answer you will not hear it as often.
Maybe she should sue, obviously there is much lacking in her education.
Then again maybe Trina should add her mother to the suite. Because her up bringing sure does lack some substance. As a matter of fact lets extend the law suite to include all of her grade school teachers, because if Trina grew to age 27 without some serious sit downs and long talks, there are a lot more people at fault, than just the college. I am sure that her “the world owes me everything” attitude did not start yesterday. There must be a line of people that need a day in court.
How did we loose an entire generation, of people to stupidity? I paint with a broad brush because all you have to do is look in the paper to find out this is not an isolated event. I remember a few years back when someone much like Trina sued McDonalds because she ordered, paid for, put in her lap, and tried to open while driving, a cup of HOT coffee. Then when she spilled it and burned herself, she sued McDonalds for supplying her with what she had ordered. Now this is bad enough, but 12 stupid people with the same mentality gave this genius millions of dollars for her inability to use common since.
We now have a government full of people that want to take all of the risk out of life and make every one equal except of course politicians who look at themselves as above us all.
As I recall the founding fathers stated in their writing that we have the right to the pursuit of happiness. We do not have the right to be happy.
As for Trina I have a little advice for you. Put on your big girl panties and grow up.
An That's What I Think
Phil Haikey
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