Travis,
I don’t usually get into political discussions anymore. They always seem to go no where and nothing ever gets resolved. People in political positions choose to do nothing but talk about there way and how right it is. Politicians have forgotten how to listen....how to compromise….how to work together for a greater good. The state of our world is a fine example. Not that I am complaining about where things are….I just know where things could be. Now to bring up the reason I am bloging. I have to agree with you the changing face of our worlds families is disturbing. Coming from a close nit family as you do and having a daughter I would not trade a minute for I too become concerned with where family life is heading. However I do not believe pouring all our money into education and fair job creation is the exact remedy. My opinion is that we need more work in our community. By this I mean more volunteer action with children who come from broken families. I think we need to help build a stronger community for our children to realize the importance of family. We need to help build better values among younger generations. We need to force more parents to take responsibility for their children and spend more time with them in their communities. I don’t know about you but I am the father I am today because of my father and my family. I think that kids who don’t have that need something. Boys and girls clubs…..YMCA…..youth groups. Why can’t our politicians push for these things? Why don’t they get into the community? I know you did with baseball. I just feel our future depends on what we can teach our kids through our community. This included in better education and better jobs for our future could be the start of a plan to bring back what you and I remember of family….a father…..a mother….a brother and or a sister. A family meal…..catch in the yard. All of this I believe starts with installing values back into our youth. And affordable community programs that are about the children not the parents…..sorry little jab at mysa….are a great start.
Thank you.
Josh Dutour
posted by tjgriggs @ 6:08 AM
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Josh if you want to re-type this I'll delete and re-post. I managed to delete your original and had to copy and past from my email and this is how it came out. Thanks.
Travis,
I don’t usually get into political discussions anymore. They always seem to go no where and nothing ever gets resolved. People in political positions choose to do nothing but talk about there way and how right it is. Politicians have forgotten how to listen....how to compromise….how to work together for a greater good. The state of our world is a fine example. Not that I am complaining about where things are….I just know where things could be. Now to bring up the reason I am bloging. I have to agree with you the changing face of our worlds families is disturbing. Coming from a close nit family as you do and having a daughter I would not trade a minute for I too become concerned with where family life is heading. However I do not believe pouring all our money into education and fair job creation is the exact remedy. My opinion is that we need more work in our community. By this I mean more volunteer action with children who come from broken families. I think we need to help build a stronger community for our children to realize the importance of family. We need to help build better values among younger generations. We need to force more parents to take responsibility for their children and spend more time with them in their communities. I don’t know about you but I am the father I am today because of my father and my family. I think that kids who don’t have that need something. Boys and girls clubs…..YMCA…..youth groups. Why can’t our politicians push for these things? Why don’t they get into the community? I know you did with baseball. I just feel our future depends on what we can teach our kids through our community. This included in better education and better jobs for our future could be the start of a plan to bring back what you and I remember of family….a father…..a mother….a brother and or a sister. A family meal…..catch in the yard. All of this I believe starts with installing values back into our youth. And affordable community programs that are about the children not the parents…..sorry little jab at mysa….are a great start.
Thank you.
Josh Dutour
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