Let's see if we understand the state of
personal responsibility in America in the last 20 years:
- If a woman burns her thighs on the hot coffee she was holding
in her lap while driving, she blames the restaurant.
- If your teen-age son kills himself, you blame the rock 'n'
roll musician he likes.
- If a man uses his lawn mower as a hedge trimmer and cuts off
his fingers in the process, you blame the department store where he bought the mower.
- If you smoke three packs of cigarettes a day for 40 years and
die of lung cancer, your family blames the Tobacco Company.
- If your daughter gets pregnant by the football captain, you
blame the school for poor sex education.
- If your neighbor crashes into a tree while driving home
drunk, you blame the bartender.
- If your cousin gets AIDS because the needle he used to shoot
heroin was dirty, you blame the government for not providing clean ones.
- If your grandchildren are brats without manners, you blame
television
- If your friend is shot by a deranged madman, you blame the
gun manufacturer.
- And, if a crazed person breaks into the cockpit and tries to
kill pilots at 35,000 feet, and the passengers kill him instead, the mother of the
deceased blames the airline.
God bless America, land of the free, home of the blame.
~Author Unknown~
Submitted by: Harry Updegraff, Jr.
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