The "Spank-Free" Generation.

So how's that "no spanking" thing working out for you?  Me?  Not so well...

Near as I can tell, this is the very first generation of kids that we chose not to spank.  On purpose...

We were told not to do that, you'll recall, by all the "Dr. Phil's" on the Telly.  It seemed that every time we turned on Oprah there was some educational psychologist or other wagging their fingers at us over child punishment.  We were told that it would stunt their growth.  Or cause them irreparable mental anguish and harm.  We were told it would scar them for life!  They were supposed to be the experts.  We were told that.  And so we meekly did as directed, "sheeple" that we're proving to be, allowing little Johnnie and Suzie to cause unbridled mayhem without having their collective butts paddled.  I know mine was.  If you're reading this I suspect yours was as well.  And I'm pretty sure that such a level of corporal punishment helped in no small way to help make me the man I am.  Perhaps you feel the same.

So for the past thirty years or so we've permitted our yutes (what's yute?) to run roughshod all over our sensibilities while we kept our teeth clenched, hoping we'd made the proper choices.  Paddle little Johnnie, or ask him to forgive us of our transgressions?  Allow Johnnie and Suzie to compete and sometimes lose, or give each a "participation trophy" for...breathing.  I'm here to tell you Mr. and Mrs. America that if we choose to use recent events in Portland, and Minneapolis, and Seattle, and New York City, and Kansas City, and Albuquerque, and Rochester, and so many, many other cities as a barometer, our yardstick as to whether a good swat on the ass or a "time out" was the proper response to this generations' hooliganism, then that swat on the ass wins every time.  

Every. Single. Time. 

We've experienced more than 100 days of rioting in Portland.  Portland was always a Lefty city, but burning itself down is a bit extreme, even by commie pinko standards.  I'm pretty sure you'll agree.  48 of our very largest cities have undergone riots during the past 4 months.  All in Democrat-led states, with Democrat-led counties, in Democrat-led cities.  We've just been told by our insurance companies that the price tag for those riots now exceeds $2 Billion Dollars!* Wouldn't you just love to grab one of those black-clad little rioting White boys (3/4's are, BTW!) by the collar and paddle the crap out of him?  Make him scream for mamma?  Make him want to go back to his parent's basement and play video games?  

I certainly would...

So not being one of those who will just complain without posing a reasonable solution, this, fellow Pilgrims, is The Chuckmeister's solution:

     Require every single solitary kid, upon the attainment of their 18th birthday, to perform a minimum of two (2) years of service to their Country.  That Service may be in one of the branches of the military, or in the Peace Corps, or in any other formal, full-time, recognized, non-profit, Public Benefit Organization of their choice.  

     Upon the successful completion of that two (2) years of national service, the citizen will then be two (2) years older and smarter and wiser, and more ready to pursue the rest of their lives as a contributing citizen.  The Federal Government will then underwrite the total costs of two (2) years of a public college or university education, to include tuition, books, food and lodging, and provide guarantees for the payment for the other two (2) at the successful completion of the first two (2). 

I might mention that Israel, and the Netherlands, and Switzerland, and Serbia, and many other countries have such a requirement.  Further, you might be interested to know that they each require their citizens to go home after their military service with a military-issued, fully-automatic rifle to be maintained at-the-ready as a part of their national guard.  

So much for our 2nd Amendment being an outlier.  

I submit the foregoing bit of flummery in the fervent hope that you'll agree with me on at least one point:  My generation didn't burn down a single city.  Not even one.  Did yours?

*  A friend in the insurance business tells me that enormous recent fires and the riot damage from incessant looting and pillaging and plundering have tapped insurance reserves to the point that those companies may soon decline to pay future premiums.