Linking Truancy With Welfare

Out of dysfunction and misery comes more misery and dysfunction. Enough to make any decent heart bleed with compassion. And bleed guilt, as well, at least among those within society who have managed to forge a decent life for themselves and their offspring. By their efforts and their dedication to those efforts, understanding and accepting their responsibilities to themselves.

It then becomes incumbent upon the hard-working, more affluent citizens of society to assuage their guilt of personal accomplishment through ensuring that their government, on their behalf, and with the wealth transferred to it by that middle-class working demographic, to help make 'a better life' for the less privileged.

Those who, having seen no value in education, nor in putting themselves out to work for a living, live squalid, poverty-stricken lives. Who also, despite their straitened economic circumstances, still manage to produce endless offspring. And who have become comfortably accustomed to the belief that society, in supporting them through welfare, is doing what it should.

All are accomplices; government, taxpayers and welfare recipients, to the societally-destructive surrender to the belief that this is how a just world revolves. Lethargically convincing oneself that a working life is fine for others, not for those who can call upon social welfare becomes an engrained habit.

Rejecting an education for one's children as unimportant rather than encouraging offspring to become self-sufficient, disciplined and responsible, seems to go hand-in-hand with the welfare mentality. While it seems a generality, there is also enough experience and data to confirm that this cycle does exist.

The recent senseless, nihilistic riots staged by young people in Britain, a class act that consumed the attention of the world, appears to have nudged its government out of its complacency in that regard. Civil standards and self-respect, public order and lawful and gainful employment appear to have been drained from the social compact in much of Britain's population.

Exemplified by a welfare society and an entitled class that believes it owes nothing to anyone, and everyone owes everything to it. New classroom reforms are urgently required to produce a new generation of "good citizens", now claims British Prime Minister David Cameron. Note: it is a state institution, schools, held to be responsible for producing "good citizens".

Where are the parents in this scenario? Gone missing, if they were ever there to begin with, to teach their children self-respect and respect for others, to support them emotionally, to teach by example what it means to be disciplined, intelligent and responsible. The message these young people have received has been anything but. They have modelled themselves on what they have observed.

Mr. Cameron may have given that some thought, pledging to exact a penalty of slashing state welfare entitlements to those parents who do nothing to encourage their children to attend school. There will doubtless be a offensive, a righteous backlash both from those wedded to the concept of aiding the downtrodden rather than demanding they make an effort on their own behalf and from the disentitled themselves.

Oh, and massive sit-ins by wronged welfare recipients whose accustomed monthly cheque may be much diminished, causing great, impassioned anguish.