Proper Parenting

An Oklahoma City mother got tired of her daughter acting like a jackass in school, so she made the girl stand on a street corner with a sign that read:

"I don't do my homework and I act up in school, so my parents are preparing me for my future. Will work for food."

Naturally, the hordes of whiny, spineless, micro-brained Leftists, who have made it their holy mission to destroy our country and culture, came running to the "rescue." One idiot called the police and reported it as "psychological abuse," so the law had to get involved.

And of course the eternally clueless mouth-breathers in the Ivory Tower had something to say, (don't they always?):

"The trick is to catch them being good," [Professor Donald Wertlieb] said. "It sounds like this mother has not had a chance to catch her child being good..."

Oh, that's just brilliant, Donald. Did you just pull that out of your ass? Because it stinks something fierce. No wonder my company can't find anybody with a work ethic to go into design engineering. Apparently, we've been approaching this all wrong. You see, we just have to "catch them when they're working." We shouldn't get upset if they don't actually produce anything. It's so clear to me now.

Twenty years to retirement, and it's looking more and more like a horse race between a farm in the Texas hill country or a padded cell in Huntsville.