tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642487114606324009.post8341124885336768939..comments2012-04-09T22:31:49.737-04:00Comments on The Zollie Smith 2008 Campaign Blog: Zollie Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14631953287300568477noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642487114606324009.post-57781402783779798232008-03-10T23:00:00.000-04:002008-03-10T23:00:00.000-04:00Truly a breath of fresh air. If we could get all ...Truly a breath of fresh air. If we could get all candidates and voters to focau on issues and not labels we would be much better off. Can't wait to hear more from you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642487114606324009.post-50812129817665198092008-03-02T21:35:00.000-05:002008-03-02T21:35:00.000-05:00Nifty post I read on a message board today...If Me...Nifty post I read on a message board today...<BR/><BR/>If Mexico is so dirt cheap and out of work what are the schools like?<BR/><BR/>We talk about how we need to upgrade our schools so we can keep up with the rest of the world. Then why do the companies want to use this cheap Mexican labor so bad? Why are they moving their business to China if schooling is so important to luring big business back to America?<BR/><BR/>In my opinion we need to upgrade our families. Stop giving our kids everything they want and teach them that it takes hard work to get the things they want. Teach them to respect the value of a dollar instead of valuing the number of earrings/tattoo’s they have on their body. Teach them to respect others and not the carrying of guns. We need to stop the epidemic going on where our Children think that being young gives them the right to have a few wild moments in their life. Those wild moments are unacceptable at any time in our life. It is our responsibility as parents to keep our kids out of harms way and teach them right from wrong. We need to teach them what it takes to get ahead from an early age.<BR/><BR/>We need to stop the brain rot in their early years that seems so prevalent today. Instead of blaming it on our school systems we need to blame it on the parents. Our school systems can only do so much with the material/kids that our families are sending them. It’s like trying to make a BMW out of pig iron, it just can’t happen.<BR/><BR/>When we hear our politicians talk of our schools failing our kids I just laugh. They will say we have run down schools. I would like to ask them who makes up those schools. Is it not the communities they are in? Are they not made up by the mom’s and dads of the students? The schools are only as important as the parents make them out to be to the kids. So why wouldn’t the parents of those run down schools help them out some. Why wouldn’t they be willing to pick up a paint brush, run a skill saw or help raise funds to buy what the school needs? If my kids were in one of those schools I would do it. Our schools are full of plumber’s kids, carpenter kids, painter’s kids, carpet cleaner’s kids and electrical specialist kids. This country should not have falling down schools.<BR/><BR/>The problem is the parents are not committed to helping their kids with the things that it takes to get ahead in life. They use the excuse that they want them to have the thinks they didn’t have. The problem is those things will always be there. You can never have ever thing. On the other hand they can have what is right before them. They can have an education that will get them ahead in life.<BR/><BR/>It’s not our schools as the politicians want us to believe. It’s not our school systems as we claim it to be. It’s the parents that have let our kids down in the country.<BR/><BR/>When we talk of American people being lazy and not willing to work like Mexicans it starts at home. It starts with what we are teaching our kids. We can’t blame that on our failing schools. We have to teach our kids that all jobs are important no matter how little they may seem. It takes the whole picture in focus to make the finished product. That finished product starts at home.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642487114606324009.post-18129899670093313482008-02-09T22:00:00.000-05:002008-02-09T22:00:00.000-05:00Zollie I agree with you on less labeling and harde...Zollie I agree with you on less labeling and harder work on trying to improve the quality of things. If a larger percentage of our county and government groups produced an equal amount of "positive feedback" as they did negative, we could truly see a much greater productive effort than in the recent past. I applaud your involvement and I appreciate the positive potential that you may not even realize you have already generated in people. Keep up the good work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com