How could your granddaughter come into this world owing more than many Americans earn in an entire year? How could your infant grandson have been so profligate as to celebrate his first birthday already 45,000 in debt?
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Where are the parents to teach these children moderation and personal responsibility? Where are the role models for disciplined budgeting of resources and prioritizing of spending?
Wait a minute...this is your grandchildren's inheritance, not their mistake. This is the burden of massive debt their grandparents and parents pass on to them at birth and bind them to for their entire lives.
How could this $14 trillion millstone around our grandchildren's necks be the accumulated debt of a country so blessed with abundant natural resources and the Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms to prosper?
America's staggering debt is the result of years of perhaps well intentioned but mismanaged entitlements and ill conceived government wealth redistribution. And the rate of debt accumulation is in hyperdrive during this administration.
Our yearly deficits and the resulting trillions of debt is the untenable weight of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, welfare and aid programs, Departments of Energy, Education, etc. created for a government deemed need, mismanaged and in deficit in perpetuity.
The good are entwined with the bad and all are included in a "baseline budget" guaranteed to increase every year. Only the rate of the increase is negotiated...never that there should be no increase...never that the baseline budget should be cut.
Amidst the angst of our own debt and alarming financial scenarios in Europe we are on a wild ride of ups and downs with our retirement assets and perhaps our children's inheritance hanging on in hopes of survival.
Not unrelated, and at the same time, youth riots have broken out in the UK, black teens attacked whites leaving a state fair in Wisconsin and the mayor of Philadelphia imposed a citywide curfew to stop teenage violence and admonished parents to "raise their children".
The conclusion by authorities in the UK is that their destructive rioters are poor and poorly raised young Britons being violent purely for the sake of destruction...only to show the wealthy and the government that they can do as they please. They object to current cuts after the last 18 years of the UK's expansion of welfare spending by burning, looting and destroying what others, not they, have labored to produce.
Here in the USA, the violence in Wisconsin and in Philadelphia are labeled as coming from a mentality of violence as a fun event organized using social media. "Where are the parents of these children?" is the question many police and local residents are asking.
And now we Seniors look at our families, communities and country and we see the damage done by a decline in the basic values taught by our parents, expected by our friends' parents, reinforced by our churches and demanded by our teachers and employers.
We knew very clearly what was expected of us even if we couldn't always live up to it. We listened and learned and
did so with respect for those who were teaching us. But too many children today, some of them our much loved grandchildren, are growing up with few moral convictions, a lack of strong values and a deficit of respect for themselves and others.
Do we have the courage to ask ourselves how, in such few generations, America's moral character has weakened? How could we have generations in a family whose only life's work has been to qualify for more and more government provided care? When did it become accepted that able bodied Americans ask for a hand out and even demanded it? When did the rights and property and even physical safety of others become objects under assault by bored teenagers or presumed victims.
Add to that the reality that government entitlements exploding without close scrutiny by us citizens have become the drivers of unimagined debt and we know reform is imperative. Millions of Americans, and many of them Seniors, are already insisting on changes that will protect our freedoms while using America's resources to preserve our standard of living and reverse the growth of spending which robs from our future generations.
But the greater challenge is to revitalize the moral underpinnings of our character. Without principles and values which parallel those of our founders we will, perhaps in our lifetimes yet, see the destruction of America's freedom and prosperity entrusted to us and intended for generations to come.
To be a part of Restoring Courage, we can attend viewing parties as they are being organized across the USA. Each party that is registered with Glenn beck is on the map and can be contacted by email to see if the party is open to more attendees. Check out this link and find a party...or organize one yourself. 
Have you noticed your groceries costing less these days? Have you walked out of the grocery store with a smile on your face because the prices are finally dropping and you can worry less about working as a Walmart greeter to pay your weekly food bill?