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3. Personally, I'm not that impressed with methods of
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 08:13 PM
Apr 2013

American parenting, or at least, I believe that too many children are raised poorly.

Yesterday, I passed by a group of early 20-somethings, spray-painting the exterior of a building. I assumed they had a permit, since it was right there in the open and was taking time, but I thought to myself, 'wow, this is how you are spending your life, doing graffiti?'

People are homeless and struggling to eat, and young people spend their lives lunching, smoking pot, graffiti/tagging structures, etc. Hardly the outcome JFK had in mind when he founded the Peace Corps, I'm sure.

Thanks for posting the interesting article.

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