ITS TIME TO PAY ATTENTION

Its time to sort out the meaningless rhetoric thrown at all of us, and start demanding meaningful dialog necessary to address the problems society's within which we live face daily. The problems have created a dynamic of there own, and the longer they go unchallenged the more difficult it will be to correct the underlying causes. It is criminal that the actions required to deal with these issues was not taken over the years as these symptoms manifested, and started adversely influencing school populations at all levels, and neighborhood routines where families could enjoy gatherings without fearing drive-by harassment which has evolved into drive-by shootings. Individually, virtually everyone reacts the same when ask to express their view of the problems we see reported in our daily newspapers over and over again. Collectively, we have been mostly unable to harness this displeasure into an actionable effort to address problems like over crowded classrooms, uninsured motorist, teen pregnancy, child abuse and neglect, immigration and illegal immigrants, failure to assume personal responsibility for those things one is responsible for, and the topics list seems to be unending. We must address each and everyone of these issues, and they must be addressed sooner than now. Social problems can all be broken down to the responsibility of the individual. As the state of are social structures reveal more and more disarray, the failure of individuals become a geometric progression of problems that are no longer compatible with an acceptable social norm. It does no good to complain about the problems that are tearing into our desired way of life on the one hand, and sit on the other hand in order not to offend those who should be offended. Concerns about political correctness is turning into an avenue that allows those new to our ways of life to avoid giving forth the effort that should be required in order to assimilate into the societies they worked so hard to join and into this culture and this collective mind set, and this way of life.
Everyone knows the problems and everyone has an opinion. At least when ask, there seems to be no shortage of finger pointing and blame assignment, but when ask to aid in the action taking phase of attacking problems, the roll call is filled with non-responses. And the lack of willingness to participate in the fixing, results in the problems complicating every aspect of our daily life, and the life styles we think we deserve to enjoy.