Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

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Originally Posted by Kevin

Been watching the thread for awhile now. The bolded text is where I'm at. I understand the excuses I'm hearing, but I don't consider them valid. When libra (for example) said she's only had two interviews in the course of three months, yet doesn't feel she's responsible at all for her financial situation, I understood that she felt as if she had no responsibility for her situation, but I disagreed.

I can see that this is a very personal and emotionally charged topic. And it's not that I don't understand that these folks are experiencing real emotional pain -- I get that. But at some point, we all have to take responsibility for our actions and inactions.

What's funny is that they actually think what you or I do is even relevant to the conversation. Here we are trying to make the very valid point that if one is out of work for more than a year, (or a lengthy period of time along those lines) that they might bear some responsibility for that -- not an earth shattering proposition.

I think that what a lot of folks here are not getting is this:

Maurice Phipps (Laurence Fishburne) said it best in the movie Higher Learning talking with Malik Williams (Omar Epps):

"You must rid yourself of the attitude that the world owes you something. It breeds laziness."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MK2OVfG1ds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqG8-...eature=related

LA, I have nothing to prove to you or anyone else here, contrary to what you may think. I know for a fact my talents and abilites I can showcase to the marketplace speaks for itself. If anything, I think all the scenarios and anecdotes I am hearing about why folks here cannot find work and they have so many degrees says more about them having something to prove to the world and why the world owes them something.

Americans need to drop the entitlement mentality. We are barely entitled to the air we breathe, much less anything else we are provided in life.