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Great News Pickerington. There's 20,000 new warehouse jobs opening up in the Rickenbacker area. Nice, new minimum wage jobs, right in line with the new Pickerington education intiative of minimum expenditure, minimum effort, minimum results. Only limited reading skills required, better than a McJob because there's no math! You don't even have to make change! The kids can spend all day loading and unloading, stacking and unstacking all sorts of marvelous and magical things designed and built in mythical places like ''China'' and ''India.''
Why little Bobby and Suzy can live right at home until they're 40! No need to worry about tutors or jr college or even the (gasp) the real thing! You can spend all the money you saved over the years on education on the grandkids living right there in the basement. It will be just like the old days, a real family.
By Any Mouse
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What are you doing with my money
I find it ironic that Any Mouse is concerned about her children living at home until they are 40 because of the huge investment and job creation recently announced in Pickaway County.
Obviously Any Mouse should use her economic skills and insight to solve a reoccurring problem I have with my property taxes. Since 2000 my property taxes has risen 150% and my home maybe has went up in value 15%.
Then to accuse the taxpayers of Pickerington of forcing her children to be lazy and forcing them to live at home until they are 40 is someone not playing with a full deck and we should all realize that no matter how much money she can extract from the pockets of the Pickerington taxpayers her kids will still be bums after high school.
Any Mouse if you were an honest person with yourself and your children you would realize just how lazy and irresponsible we have made our younger generation. Despite a school system that is supposed to be highly rated the Columbus Dispatch can not find a hand full of teenagers to deliver their newspapers in the morning and they have had to turn to adults for home delivery in our sub-divisions.
Any Mouse does it even dawn on you that there seems to be something wrong when a white haired old lady (probably mid-seventies) is carrying out your groceries at Kroger in the middle of summer? Shouldn?’t she be home knitting her grand kids a sweater or something? Couldn?’t one of the 3,000 teenagers in Pickerington that are over crowding our High Schools be doing that job?
What I do see in the summer is our young people standing along 256 trying to lure drivers into the parking lot to get their car washed for some athletic team associated with our schools. Many times these ?“carnival barkers?” are young girls in not so innocent clothing out on our streets trying to raise money for someone else. I know of only one profession they are learning here.
While I see very few of those teenagers working in the local fast food restaurants and shops along 256, I see they have the money for gas and car payments to be driving late model automobiles with a cell phone attached to their ears.
At the same time, I see these teenager?’s parents expecting our schools to teach their kids manors and character. I see very little discipline being taught at home only to allow the schools to ?“just deal with it.?” Then the work ethic in our young people is a rarity now days because of a culture of instant gratification amount our parents and what they think their kids are qualified to do for a living. Any Mouse you illustrate that fact very clearly with your concern that your kids will consider a $13 an hour job as a McJob and not the fact your kids are showing initiative and not being a burden on society.
I am sure these employers will expect your kids to show up on time and they will only get the very minimum in benefits. So if you want to save your kids keep expanding the school system to make room for unlimited benefits and pay raises and maybe they can become school teachers.
By Empty Nester
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Hunh?
Empty Nester, you lost me. The school system is showing signs of coming collapse from lack of resourses and you don't think the schools are doing enough. Your response is so riddled with illogic, half-truths and, well, stupidity, it just doesn't parse.
As near as I can figure out, back in your day ''men were men and children knew their place.'' There, there granny, don't get all excited. Remember what the doctor said about your blood pressure.
By Any Mouse
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I get it
I think Empty Nester's response sounded so illogical to you, Any Mouse, because your original posting was the very essence of illogic and half-truths, and that was the best anyone could do as a response. At least in your eyes.
I understood exactly what Empty Nester was saying.
By Anon
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