To the Hosts of Red Eye Radio show

Hello Lately there have been a couple of things that you have talked about which I have to take issue with. A few nights ago you were talking about kids going to college today and how lazy they are. You said “when I was going to college, I worked my way through.” The point you were making seemed to be they can do the same. The thing is when you were going to college that was a while ago. (you are admitted to be over the age of 40) And even just ten years ago when my wife and I were in college it wasn’t as bad as it is today. There are a few major points here… (1) College was Cheaper (2) Life was cheaper (3) High schools taught students enough that upon graduation those students were prepared for either advanced schools (college) or even for life. Let me clarify… When you were going to college you probably had A job that saw to your needs, Maybe it was a full time job but it probably could have been part time, but regardless it was probably 1 (one) job. Today in order to do the same thing the average student would have to have at least 2 full time jobs. In fact, due to the cost of living it takes that much just to survive today, let alone adding college tuition to it. You claimed that no one helped you through college, I doubt that. Let’s be honest here… No one ever took you out for a meal? No one, not even your mom ever helped defray the cost of clothes, books, or tuition? No one EVER helped you at all in any way????? Really? How about, and this will bring me to my third point, all the teachers and/or family who made sure that you were Ready to go to college? Perhaps They bought you some things for your dorm/apartment? Maybe they packed a care package or two for you? How about they just made sure that you had an education that enabled you to actually get the most out of college. Today's students, and I can testify to this, are NOT getting the education that was offered 20 or 30 years ago. In fact I saw it start. When I was in my second year of Junior High school (14 years old) they started emphasizing the self esteem thing. I drove a school bus up to 5 years ago and the kids I saw were nowhere near as educated coming out of HIGH school as I was by the time I hit Junior high! In fact I would contend that all you have to do is look around today. NO one seems able to spell. They cannot distinguish between homophones, they are lost when you talk about adjectives or adverbs and they are clueless about history and other basic stuff. In fact I think that is one reason why Obama and his group are doing so well. In short you were being judgmental without either having all the facts or taking them into account. This brings me to my other issue. You were talking a couple of nights later about health care and Obama’s “solution.” I agree with you that Obamacare is a bad thing that needs to be eliminated. BUT I do NOT agree with your standard for judging people on that issue. You said “people have a big screen tv in their house or they have two cars so CLEARLY they chose to spend their money on those things instead of going to see the doctor.” I have an issue there again for several reasons. Let me use a situation with which I am very aware of... YES I know this is "anecdotal." I know exactly the kind of person that Obama described when he was saying we need to pass his health care. This person cannot afford Health Insurance and would like to be able to. He have two cars, two tv’s in fact he has a “Big screen/flat screen tv in his basement (it doesn’t work though). However if he did NOT have two cars at least one of his family (either his wife or him) would not have a job. They NEED those cars because (1) if they did not have transportation they would not go to work. (2) They live in an area where there is NOT any kind of real public transportation. Therefore too few cars equals total dependence on the government for their care and well being. As for the tv’s in fact this is true of ALL their furniture the tv’s they got second hand from places like Goodwill, except the big screen which was a gift from a well meaning but misguided (liberal by the way)parent. Somehow spending 20 bucks for a goodwill tv does not translate well into ability to afford a doctors visit. So my point is that you are judging people based on what they have in their homes when you do not know if it was a gift they received from a friend or a family member. You do not know if they got it on freecycle or from a yard sale. My wife and I like to use those sources, you do not know if they bought it second hand or got it from a discount store or ebay. You are just assuming that since they have something they had to have gone somewhere expensive and bought it brand new. That is why I get so frustrated. Maybe you need to consider those things first before you start going off on people. Some people out there legitimately need help and assistance. And the costs of yesteryear do not match the costs of today. Maybe you could help out a little by saying to a college kid, “hey here let me buy you lunch” instead of berating them for not being able to do something that frankly they were not trained or taught to do. As for the Health care maybe you could say “hey I do not know exactly where they are in their life so I will not judge them.” I will agree though that the idea the democrats have about how to address the issues are silly at best. Let me tell you why I find Obamacare a problem. I am the kind of person that Obama ostensibly described when he wanted to implement this. I opposed this plan before it was put in place because I was homeschooled for my High school, And therefore I am smart enough to realize that this country cannot afford it, I cannot afford it. All Obama did with this, as far as I am concerned is to tell everyone that the insurance which they could not afford before, they now have to buy, just because he says so. This does not help anyone. They could not afford it before the Obamacare thing, period, and just because he made it the law does not suddenly mean they can afford it. In fact the Health Insurance companies will realize they can raise their rates like crazy and make it LESS affordable for people because it is required (people will be FORCED into the product). It just punishes people for being poor.