What Happened To Personal Responsiblity?

Problem gambler sues casinos for $20M - Crime & courts - MSNBC.com

Am I the only one who has a problem with the growing issue of people not being able to take responsibility for their actions.

I'm sure she would have had no problem had she won a butt load of money.

I'm also sure that if she was on a roll, and they cut her off, because she was gambling for days on end, she would sue them for that too.

Unbelievable.

 

I heard this on the radio on the way to school today.. ridiculous.. She wont get a dime. Has to be one of the most absurd things I've ever heard. Imagine the door this would open? Unbelievable is right. I predict not only will she receive nothing, but will be prosecuted for embezzlement from an employer as well..

 

But this is the new society we are creating.

This goes to a lack of morals, everything goes back to a lack of morals. Morals are the tempering factor that makes society possible and these new flexible morals the non-religious cling to are making this kind of behavoir not only possible but make it a reality.

Back when I was a kid nobody locked their doors and women were "ladies". Most people went to church and had prayer when they sat down for a meal with their family (that included a father at the table). Each day of school was started with prayer, everywhere you looked there was an example of good moral standing supported by a belief in God as the foundation of those morals. That does not mean everyone was good, just that the standard of behavoir was well defined if someone was to be accepted in society.


Now we have a society where being religious has the non-religious attacking us and even calling us liers when we speak of how we feel but at the same time, we have out of control lack of taking responsibility for anything we do.


It seems like the two are directly connected, I am sure the non-religious will try to deflect attention away from this connection but there is a clear and well defined cause and effect relationship with removing God from society and the moral decline that follows.

 

And the Governor of the State of New York spent $80,000 on hookers. Go figure. This is a guy who epitomizes the definition of "double standard".

 

Especially since, while he was NY Attorney General, one of the cases he tenaciously persued, was that of prostitution rings.

Some people see this behavior, by politicians, as a personal issue. The truth is that when they do this, just as President Clinton did on numerous occasions, they open themselves up to being blackmailed, and that puts the safety and welfare of the state or people at risk.

 

That was the deal, huh? All I caught on the tube was "Elliot Spitzer infidelity scandel".. Good use of tax payer dollars. Isn't prostitution illegal? Guy couldn't get it for free?

 

Just one more example of someone not wanting to take responsibility for their actions...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/nyregion/12spitzer.html

Not only isn't he stepping down as Governor of New York, he has his attorney trying to strike a deal to avoid prosecution.

This is the same guy that prosecuted Martha Stewart, and gave a deal to her broker, who was more at fault then she, to make an example of her.

I think karma should make an example of him.

Another thing that the liberal media is showing bias, and possible double standard, is that if this had been a Republican, every time they said "Governor of New York", they would have added, "Republican, Govorner of New York".

 

No doubt.. Karma.. It is a bitch. So is Martha, apparently..

 

Whether you love him or hate him, he's got a pretty good point in this article he wrote for CNN. IMO

Glenn Beck: Too bad, Michigan and Florida - CNN.com

 

I agree with Glenn Beck, "too bad" needs to be used a lot more.

 

GREAT Glenn Beck article, IWS.

And if any judge decides to award that gambling woman a penny just to receive his/her 15 minutes of fame for making a controversial ruling in the judicial circuit, I will lose all faith in humanity.

 

If they can get it in front of a jury there is a very good chance she will get many millions of dollars awarded to her because of the "Robin Hood" mentality so many people have these days.

 

Unfortunately that's true and not only jury mentality, it's some judges too.

We had a case here in Nebraska, relating to an accident that was allegedly caused by a failed traffic signal at an intersection of two highways in a small town, about 9 years ago, where a 16 year old and his three friends were southbound, in a Buick Sentry and was hit by a westbound semi.

He suffered a head injury, he was taken to a hospital in Omaha by LifeFlight helicopter. He was semiconscious several months, then spent many more months in a rehabilitation hospital. Eventually, he was moved to another rehabilitation facility in Sheldon, Iowa, where he stayed for six years, his care paid for by Medicaid, so all medical has been paid by the government so far. The boy was sent home last August. He still has trouble with speech, balance, feeding himself. He has only some use of his left arm and no use of the right.

The claim was that the lights periodically malfunction giving all four directions green lights. There had been complaints of this periodically for years. Every time a complaint was made the state came out and tested the lights and every time they showed they were working fine. Traffic lights by design, if there is a problem go into a failsafe mode that makes them flash red all directions or flashing red for one highway/street and flashing yellow for the other. Besides the tests performed through complaints the lights are tested annually. The signals have been completely changed out a few years ago, yet people still claim that the lights are still malfunctioning.

Despite maintinance records and the failsafes in place to prevent this from happening, the original judge awarded the family $4 million.

Last year, after appeal, because the boys mother said that the 4 million dollar judgement wasn't enough to cover the continued medical expense, the state Supreme Court ordered the state to pay Wagner $9.9 million, nearly triple what had originally been ordered by a Colfax County District Court.

The mother claimed that care facility expenses would come to $200,000 a year.

I don't know where these people get their calculators and maybe I'm crazy but even if you subtracted $250,000 from the original $4 million, to cover the first years bills, and was left with $3.75 million. If that was invested, the return at a conservative 9% per year, if invested right, using a professional, that leaves an annual return of $337,500 (9% is easily obtained in even poor markets like now). Hell at 7%, that you can get in a fixed money market account it leave you with an annual return of $262,500. The $9.9 million, that the Nebraska Department of Roads judgement, is on top of undisclosed settlements with the trucking company and with the city. These were out of court settlements and there are confidentiality agreements in those settlements.

I'm not cold hearted or anyting and I feel for the family, but even if the lights were malfunctioning but the state had proof that the annual maintinance was done and complaints were checked up with tests that indicated nothing was malfunctioning according to the tests, I think that the original $4 million against the Nebraska Department of Roads, was a fair judgement, especially considering there are two other settlements.

I think the Nebraska Supreme Court Judges acted out of emotion, and not logic or reason. IMO

 

The never ending "socialist" Hillary Clinton wants the US government to take on even more of the debt created by the poor choices of people and financial institutions. Nothing like all of us paying for the mistakes of the few.

Clinton proposes steps to ease US housing crisis | Reuters

Wonder where the $30 billion for Hillary's plan will come from? Oh yea, the average everyday taxpayer.

... and she wants it done now, or nobody else cares about the people.

 

It makes no sense to artificially maintain high housing prices. What is funny is politicians are also claiming a need for affordable housing.