With all of the tough times we've had so far, and will have while digging out of this economic crisis - one of my firmest beliefs is that we have to pick ourselves up by our bootstraps and dig into OUR OWN character reservoirs to get out of the hole.
Janet Guilbault, a mortgage banker/broker in the Bay Area of California wrote a sharp, to-the-point post on the "Entitlement Mentality" that needs to be scrapped before true progress as a society can be made:
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When did we start to feel entitled?
In the Depression of the 1930's, the jobless father of 4 asked the farmer if he could work on the farm for a day in exchange for food to feed his family.
In the Depression of 2010 do we just take the food from the farmer because, after all, you and your family are entitled to eat?
Are we:
Entitled to a life better than our parents had?
Entitled to own real estate?
Entitled to dis-own real estate?
Entitled to be bailed out?
Entitled to a job?
Entitled to health care? And to social security when we grow old?
You would sure think so by what surrounds us.
Why work? Why pay your bills? Why take care of your health and your finances? Why respect what others have earned?
Do we take the course that will help us? Or do we just help ourselves to what others have produced?
When did we start to believe that America owed us more than life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Is it because the government has redefined the word "rights" to include never needing to suffer?
Is it because a generation came of age when stock market wealth and real estate equity made it seem like real work was obsolete?
Did 100% stated income loans with a few years of teaser rates train us to believe the American Dream was what every American deserved?
Did plastic in our wallets make it seem like our rights included unlimited gratification?
Somehow, we have lost our way.
Let us hope to sprout fresh green grass across America we do not need to completely kill the roots.
Written by Janet Guilbault, Mortgage Banker/Broker and Direct Lender Based out of the San Francisco Bay Area
Specializing in Buyer & Seller Representation in the Tucson, Arizona real estate market.
All original material written by Kent Simpson unless attributed to source.©2011, 2010, 2009,2008,2007
"Never forget - Real Estate Is About People"
Kent,
Thank you so much for the reblog. I just needed sothing like this, and I would have missed it if not for the reblog.
We gotta wake up
Kent - awesome post! I can't believe I missed it the first time around. It's worthy of passing around.
Jon, Lina - the beauty of reblogging is the opportunity to pass someone else's good work around & get them the credit & exposure they deserve! Thanks for coming by - and drop by Janet's blog to let her know how much you appreciate it!
Kent- Thank you for posting this reblog. The words could not ring more true! I need to write a post about this also. I am so sick of the entitlement era. It is what leads humans down the wrong road and they keep expecting more entitlements, but they come with a price- freedom. You become enslaved to governments this way- and then you wake up without liberty wishing you could just do it all on your own once again. Katerina
Howdy there Kent
This sure is one mighty fine blog post, you found to re-blog. I know a guy here, that moved over to Vermont. Just because he could get more State money from the State of Vermont, than he could here in New Hampshire. Just so he would not have to work fulltime. To me if someone is able to work, then they sure should not be geting a hand out from the Federal or State Government.