Have Parents Made It Too Easy?

   This is a follow-up on my previous posting. After writing it, I had to ask myself, could we also be part of the reason the young in this country are tilting left? I have to ask this because in trying so hard to make it easy for our kids, have some of us gone too far? Have our children come to expect everything  to come easily and want to be taken care of by us then the government?
   Ponder this, when most of us were young, we didn't get an allowance. We wanted spending money, we got jobs and earned it. That was how we got cars and date money. We learned about economics from practical application and not in the abstract from some professor that never did anything but teach theory.
  But look at  a lot of today's kids. We have them given so much , that we in essence have taken from them. They have no work ethic, no sense of accomplishment. We have killed their competitive drive by allowing every kid to have a trophy, instead of the winners. We have have given them the things that we wanted and had to work for with no effort on their part. How are they supposed to function an economy that is fragile at best with no survival skills? I think this in part is what has made it so easy for them to accept the false promises of our President. They are so used to getting it for free and being taken care of, it seems only natural to them that the government should pick up where we leave off.
   I know that some kids do have what it takes. Look at the enlistment rate of the kids coming right out of school and the average age of the young men and women in our armed forces. They are willing to do what it takes to get the job done. Yet, so many that I see and talk with have no idea what is in store for them once they are out of school. They have this embedded notion that  we as a society owes them something. They think it will be just like in school where they can skate along just getting by with out having to worry about anything. If you have read "The Time Machine" , then you will get what I'm saying; we have turned a lot of this generation into the Eloi and the government has become the Morlocks. Long story short, in the book, the Morlocks take care of the Eloi, feeding them, clothing them, and taking care of them from cradle to the time that they eat them.
  To me, that's the problem. Our kids don't realize that they are nothing but fodder for a government that's lost control of  itself and if they don't wake up; they're going to be eaten.