Dave Hodges, Thoughts From Behind Closed Doors… Being A Parent… What Will You Tell Your Children About Their Future?

Dave-Hodges-and-son

Editors Note… As I read this soul searching story by Dave Hodges, I felt as though he and I were actually having this conversation, both of us discussing the reality of what lies ahead for our children and all children. I’ve re-read this article several times, I felt every word he typed from a heavy heart sitting alone at night preparing this article…

It’s so personal and real, although our situations are different, they are the same. For each answer we find we also find two more questions that demand an answer. As parents, we’re expected to have the right answer whether it be good, bad or ugly.

Life is not a reality TV show. Children need to see us as we are, real human beings with real emotions, real feelings and present ourselves in that manner. How can they face the future without knowing the truth or how to feel about it?

It doesn’t matter what the truth is, it needs to be said. You as a parent, be honest about the situations we are all facing and what it means for the present and future.

If you do not talk to your children, they will still find out whether it be from school, online, from strangers, they will still find out and it may not be what you want them to know. They cannot unhear what they heard. Don’t avoid what needs to be done because it will not go away.

I have so much respect for Dave Hodges for being human, for being open and sharing emotions and concerns. I want to call him and thank him for opening this door we all must at some time walk through.

This article has been posted on other websites and I must say, I am appalled by some of the comments left by the readers of those websites!

To the parents who read the article and did leave disgusting comments, maybe you shouldn’t tell your children anything. Some things are better left unsaid.

 

Thanks for reading. Sorry if I stepped on some toes, please wear shoes when we chat again!

Love and hugs to all! ~ SadInAmerica

Now on to Dave’s article…

 

Have You Bothered to Tell Your Children
That They Have No Future?

Six years ago when this picture was taken of my son and myself, I
still held out hope that the Independent Media could rescue this country
from the tyrants that have hijacked our government.

Dave-Hodges-and-son

I had this picture
made into a poster where it is now displayed just outside my office
where I write and broadcast. The picture formerly symbolized the hope
that I held out for the next generation.

Today, this picture represents
what has been lost and will never be recovered. It also serves as a
reminder of my parental responsibility to adequately prepare my son for
what lies ahead as he prepares to become a citizen in the New World
Order.

 

Paradise Lost

When I became a parent, I mistakenly thought that I would raise my
son just like my parents raised me. My parents instilled in me a
fundamental respect for authority, how to honor the great traditions of
our country and how to work hard to get what I wanted out of life.

I grew up loving the ideals of our country, the freedom and the
opportunity. As a result, I have lived a good and prosperous life. I
give thanks to my parents and to God everyday for my good fortune.

However, I have learned that I was not fully prepared to be a parent
because I do not know how to teach my teenage son about how he should
live in the New World Order.

The America we knew is dead and gone and is running solely on
momentum.

Are any of you asking the same question that I am about how we
tell our teenage children that they live under a hopelessly corrupt
government and they are making plans to fully enslave all of us under
REX 84, FEMA Camps, NDAA, etc?

Do we teach our children to never
criticize the government because free speech has been criminalized as an
act of terrorism?

How do we provide our children hope that if they work
hard and go to college, that they will have a good life?

Even if
our kids graduate from college, most won’t find jobs when they get out
of school and even if they do find work in their field, they will be
debt slaves because of the cost of higher education.

How do we encourage
our children to learn the lessons of civics when we fully know that our
vote, on a national level, does not make a darn bit of difference and
that the Pelosi’s, Reid’s, Clinton’s, Bush’s and Obama’s are bought and
paid for?

How do we teach our children that our brave men and women who
serve in the military have been turned into pawns of corporate greed and
subsequent imperialism?

How do we prepare to raise our children in a
decadent society which dishonors the Christian principles that our
country was founded upon?

 

The Questions a Parent Cannot Answer…

My son is showing signs of asking questions befitting an adult
perspective of our present political and economic situation. I am not
bashful about identifying the misdeeds of our government when I am
writing or broadcasting.

Also, I know that I have the intellectual
capacity to explain to my son how bad things have become in terms he can
understand. However, I have found that I am lacking the skill and
knowledge to explain to my son just how bad things are and that his
generation has no future.

I know that there comes the day when all
parents realize that we have to tell our children that there is no Santa
Claus.

I grew up in an America which was a republic interspersed with some
corruption. Today’s America is a corporate criminal enterprise where
there are no rules for the elite and the republic concepts underlying
our laws are on life support.

Subsequently, my son is growing up in a
far different America than I did and to hear him talk about his future
hopes and fears reflects these fundamental changes that we have
experienced as a country.

 

The Creation of Debt Slaves and the Increasingly Worthless College Degree

Save your money, go to college, get a good job, right? For the most part, that ship has sailed.

The rate of increase of a college education has increased eight times
more than the cost of living. In my generation, college students could
pay for their education with part time jobs. A part time job, today,
will not even purchase the text books.

In order to obtain a college degree today, students must pay about
three times as much for their degree as did someone graduating 30 years
ago, even when accounting for inflation.

There is not one shred of
evidence that the quality of the education today have received a degree
three times as good. In fact, the existing data is suggests that our
college students are paying far more than their parents did and
receiving a less quality education.

According to the College Board, in 1983 a typical private American
university managed to provide a bachelor’s degree education to young
people just like you for $11,000 a year in tuition and fees, today, it
costs almost $30,000 per year.

Thirty years ago, public universities have witnessed an even more
dramatic increase. One used to be able to get a full four-year degree
for $8,800. Today, one year’s worth of tuition will cost $8,700.

In
fact, today on an overcrowded college campus, it takes an average of six
years to graduate because of the shortage of offered required classes,
It can accurately be said that a good rule of thumb is that the bigger
the college, the longer it takes to graduate.

Further, when one factors
in the time for degree completion, a college education at a public
university is 6-8 times greater than it was in 1983. If you think
that these figures don’t sound that bad, please consider that the new
tuition numbers do not account for room and board.

 

This Is the Job Market We Have Left Our Children

Today, nearly 25 million adults, or 57 percent of all young adults between 18 and 24 still live at home with their parents because they’re unemployed or underemployed.

These
adults are attempting to pay off student loans or save money to buy a
home, save money for school or to save money for any number of other
reasons.

While having your parents as your roommates may make financial
sense, it is devastating for a person’s self-esteem and it is the kiss
of death for one’s marriage choices. Trulia’s survey found that only 5%
of unmarried adults would consider dating someone who lived at home with
their parents.

The majority of college graduates considered their college experience a waste of time as 70% of all surveyed college graduates wish
that they had spent more time preparing for real jobs skills rather
than the purely academic focus they pursued while in school.

It would appear that the regret expressed by so many college students is well-grounded in fact, as there are more than 100,000 janitors and 317,000 waiters and waitresses that have college degrees.

In the year 2000, 80 percent of men in their late 20’s had a full-time job, by 2012, only 65 percent of
this population had full-time work. What will happen as Obamacare
kicks in and employers continue the trend to reduce their workforce to
part-time?

These statistics are only the tip of the iceberg, but the message
here is clear. Be prepared my fellow parents to support your children
well into their 30’s.

There is an additional consideration, the Obama
administration and friends are posturing to eliminate the generational
transmission of wealth.

Even though we have allowed the central bankers
through such nefarious strategies as the blatant implementation of free
trade agreements to export many of our jobs overseas, we could have
still passed along our acquired wealth to our children.

However, if our
pensions and 401K funds are confiscated and placed into a national
redistribution of wealth center, your child will see little, if
anything, of your accumulated wealth. This is an obvious ploy to
impoverish this new generation and make them totally dependent on
government for everything.

If Obama has his way, our welfare ranks will
grow from one in two working age Americans to a 100% rate of dependency
upon the government. After all, 75% of all Americans make less than
$30,000 per year.

 

More Jobs Are Leaving the Country

For decades, our leaders in Washington pushed us towards “a global
economy” and told us it would be so good for us. But there is a flip
side.

Now workers in the U.S. must compete with workers all over the
world, and our greedy corporations are free to pursue the cheapest labor
available anywhere on the globe.

Millions of jobs have already been
shipped out of the United States, and Princeton University economist
Alan S. Blinder estimates that 22% to 29% of all current U.S. jobs will be offshorable within two decades.

The days when blue collar workers could live the American Dream are gone and they are not going to come back.

If you are awake as to what is going on and you have children, you
will one day be forced to answer the questions that your children ask
about the world that they live in… and for the life of me, I do not know
how to tell my child how to live in the New World Order.

Source

 

As always… post your thoughts!

By the way, if you don’t know Dave Hodges, you can find him HERE.

Dave’s radio show is on Sunday nights. The link is on the upper right side, check out the archieved shows too at the very top.

 

September 7, 2015 – KnowTheLies.com

 

Source Article from http://www.knowthelies.com/node/10746

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Dave Hodges, Thoughts From Behind Closed Doors… Being A Parent… What Will You Tell Your Children About Their Future?

Dave-Hodges-and-son

Editors Note… As I read this soul searching story by Dave Hodges, I felt as though he and I were actually having this conversation, both of us discussing the reality of what lies ahead for our children and all children. I’ve re-read this article several times, I felt every word he typed from a heavy heart sitting alone at night preparing this article…

It’s so personal and real, although our situations are different, they are the same. For each answer we find we also find two more questions that demand an answer. As parents, we’re expected to have the right answer whether it be good, bad or ugly.

Life is not a reality TV show. Children need to see us as we are, real human beings with real emotions, real feelings and present ourselves in that manner. How can they face the future without knowing the truth or how to feel about it?

It doesn’t matter what the truth is, it needs to be said. You as a parent, be honest about the situations we are all facing and what it means for the present and future.

If you do not talk to your children, they will still find out whether it be from school, online, from strangers, they will still find out and it may not be what you want them to know. They cannot unhear what they heard. Don’t avoid what needs to be done because it will not go away.

I have so much respect for Dave Hodges for being human, for being open and sharing emotions and concerns. I want to call him and thank him for opening this door we all must at some time walk through.

This article has been posted on other websites and I must say, I am appalled by some of the comments left by the readers of those websites!

To the parents who read the article and did leave disgusting comments, maybe you shouldn’t tell your children anything. Some things are better left unsaid.

 

Thanks for reading. Sorry if I stepped on some toes, please wear shoes when we chat again!

Love and hugs to all! ~ SadInAmerica

Now on to Dave’s article…

 

Have You Bothered to Tell Your Children
That They Have No Future?

Six years ago when this picture was taken of my son and myself, I
still held out hope that the Independent Media could rescue this country
from the tyrants that have hijacked our government.

Dave-Hodges-and-son

I had this picture
made into a poster where it is now displayed just outside my office
where I write and broadcast. The picture formerly symbolized the hope
that I held out for the next generation.

Today, this picture represents
what has been lost and will never be recovered. It also serves as a
reminder of my parental responsibility to adequately prepare my son for
what lies ahead as he prepares to become a citizen in the New World
Order.

 

Paradise Lost

When I became a parent, I mistakenly thought that I would raise my
son just like my parents raised me. My parents instilled in me a
fundamental respect for authority, how to honor the great traditions of
our country and how to work hard to get what I wanted out of life.

I grew up loving the ideals of our country, the freedom and the
opportunity. As a result, I have lived a good and prosperous life. I
give thanks to my parents and to God everyday for my good fortune.

However, I have learned that I was not fully prepared to be a parent
because I do not know how to teach my teenage son about how he should
live in the New World Order.

The America we knew is dead and gone and is running solely on
momentum.

Are any of you asking the same question that I am about how we
tell our teenage children that they live under a hopelessly corrupt
government and they are making plans to fully enslave all of us under
REX 84, FEMA Camps, NDAA, etc?

Do we teach our children to never
criticize the government because free speech has been criminalized as an
act of terrorism?

How do we provide our children hope that if they work
hard and go to college, that they will have a good life?

Even if
our kids graduate from college, most won’t find jobs when they get out
of school and even if they do find work in their field, they will be
debt slaves because of the cost of higher education.

How do we encourage
our children to learn the lessons of civics when we fully know that our
vote, on a national level, does not make a darn bit of difference and
that the Pelosi’s, Reid’s, Clinton’s, Bush’s and Obama’s are bought and
paid for?

How do we teach our children that our brave men and women who
serve in the military have been turned into pawns of corporate greed and
subsequent imperialism?

How do we prepare to raise our children in a
decadent society which dishonors the Christian principles that our
country was founded upon?

 

The Questions a Parent Cannot Answer…

My son is showing signs of asking questions befitting an adult
perspective of our present political and economic situation. I am not
bashful about identifying the misdeeds of our government when I am
writing or broadcasting.

Also, I know that I have the intellectual
capacity to explain to my son how bad things have become in terms he can
understand. However, I have found that I am lacking the skill and
knowledge to explain to my son just how bad things are and that his
generation has no future.

I know that there comes the day when all
parents realize that we have to tell our children that there is no Santa
Claus.

I grew up in an America which was a republic interspersed with some
corruption. Today’s America is a corporate criminal enterprise where
there are no rules for the elite and the republic concepts underlying
our laws are on life support.

Subsequently, my son is growing up in a
far different America than I did and to hear him talk about his future
hopes and fears reflects these fundamental changes that we have
experienced as a country.

 

The Creation of Debt Slaves and the Increasingly Worthless College Degree

Save your money, go to college, get a good job, right? For the most part, that ship has sailed.

The rate of increase of a college education has increased eight times
more than the cost of living. In my generation, college students could
pay for their education with part time jobs. A part time job, today,
will not even purchase the text books.

In order to obtain a college degree today, students must pay about
three times as much for their degree as did someone graduating 30 years
ago, even when accounting for inflation.

There is not one shred of
evidence that the quality of the education today have received a degree
three times as good. In fact, the existing data is suggests that our
college students are paying far more than their parents did and
receiving a less quality education.

According to the College Board, in 1983 a typical private American
university managed to provide a bachelor’s degree education to young
people just like you for $11,000 a year in tuition and fees, today, it
costs almost $30,000 per year.

Thirty years ago, public universities have witnessed an even more
dramatic increase. One used to be able to get a full four-year degree
for $8,800. Today, one year’s worth of tuition will cost $8,700.

In
fact, today on an overcrowded college campus, it takes an average of six
years to graduate because of the shortage of offered required classes,
It can accurately be said that a good rule of thumb is that the bigger
the college, the longer it takes to graduate.

Further, when one factors
in the time for degree completion, a college education at a public
university is 6-8 times greater than it was in 1983. If you think
that these figures don’t sound that bad, please consider that the new
tuition numbers do not account for room and board.

 

This Is the Job Market We Have Left Our Children

Today, nearly 25 million adults, or 57 percent of all young adults between 18 and 24 still live at home with their parents because they’re unemployed or underemployed.

These
adults are attempting to pay off student loans or save money to buy a
home, save money for school or to save money for any number of other
reasons.

While having your parents as your roommates may make financial
sense, it is devastating for a person’s self-esteem and it is the kiss
of death for one’s marriage choices. Trulia’s survey found that only 5%
of unmarried adults would consider dating someone who lived at home with
their parents.

The majority of college graduates considered their college experience a waste of time as 70% of all surveyed college graduates wish
that they had spent more time preparing for real jobs skills rather
than the purely academic focus they pursued while in school.

It would appear that the regret expressed by so many college students is well-grounded in fact, as there are more than 100,000 janitors and 317,000 waiters and waitresses that have college degrees.

In the year 2000, 80 percent of men in their late 20’s had a full-time job, by 2012, only 65 percent of
this population had full-time work. What will happen as Obamacare
kicks in and employers continue the trend to reduce their workforce to
part-time?

These statistics are only the tip of the iceberg, but the message
here is clear. Be prepared my fellow parents to support your children
well into their 30’s.

There is an additional consideration, the Obama
administration and friends are posturing to eliminate the generational
transmission of wealth.

Even though we have allowed the central bankers
through such nefarious strategies as the blatant implementation of free
trade agreements to export many of our jobs overseas, we could have
still passed along our acquired wealth to our children.

However, if our
pensions and 401K funds are confiscated and placed into a national
redistribution of wealth center, your child will see little, if
anything, of your accumulated wealth. This is an obvious ploy to
impoverish this new generation and make them totally dependent on
government for everything.

If Obama has his way, our welfare ranks will
grow from one in two working age Americans to a 100% rate of dependency
upon the government. After all, 75% of all Americans make less than
$30,000 per year.

 

More Jobs Are Leaving the Country

For decades, our leaders in Washington pushed us towards “a global
economy” and told us it would be so good for us. But there is a flip
side.

Now workers in the U.S. must compete with workers all over the
world, and our greedy corporations are free to pursue the cheapest labor
available anywhere on the globe.

Millions of jobs have already been
shipped out of the United States, and Princeton University economist
Alan S. Blinder estimates that 22% to 29% of all current U.S. jobs will be offshorable within two decades.

The days when blue collar workers could live the American Dream are gone and they are not going to come back.

If you are awake as to what is going on and you have children, you
will one day be forced to answer the questions that your children ask
about the world that they live in… and for the life of me, I do not know
how to tell my child how to live in the New World Order.

Source

 

As always… post your thoughts!

By the way, if you don’t know Dave Hodges, you can find him HERE.

Dave’s radio show is on Sunday nights. The link is on the upper right side, check out the archieved shows too at the very top.

 

September 7, 2015 – KnowTheLies.com

 

Source Article from http://www.knowthelies.com/node/10746

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