Porter's Pebbles

Category: Current Events

This category will feature discussions of current events.

  • My concerns not only GEN-Z and our Nation as well

    I’ve been listening,reading and in-general ingesting quite a bit of material related to mental health. I have come a cross several several experts from jurist prudant to psychologists right up and threw some of the worlds leading narcissism experts like doctor Ramani on via YouTube. I really find the most concerning figures as it pertains to the mental health of the generation of children born from 1995 to the current day most corning because they’re being raised by parents that are most commonly both working and thus use screens as electronic babysitters.

    This I find extremely discomforting because these children are essentially are also being raised by parental and other authority figures who coddle them to no end. I say this because over the past several years we’ve seen a extremely discomforting at least to me number of school shootings. In my opinion a key metric that is a decent indicator of why this is happening on a regular basis is the prevalence of more and more violent video game for example the Grand Theft Auto series and other title A series of PC and Console video games like the Far-Cry series.

    If you ask me my opions on how we as a society in general and on the per-person basis is by using our good judgment when the minor children in oru family structures ask for such violent content is as hard as it may seem to just say no. I’ll be the first to realize that as non-parent I’ll probably get the electronic shit kicked out of me for daring to put fourth this concept however, as a society we need to collectively come to the realization that if we’re to even attempt to stem the “never ending” tide of needless loss on our primary and secondary school campuses we must find a common starting place.

    Not only is this pathological of the next generations emotions is dangerous it’s detrimental to the overall mental health of our nation as well . This is partially do to the scope creep of including quasi mental health professionals social works,guidance counselors and school crisis counselors and lastly teachers. The last group is using emotional education/awareness as a part of their daily lesson plans. When you include holy unqualified and unlicensed professionals. Those professionals that I speak of are the mainstream and special needs educators as part and parcel of the “mental health” profession not only do you taint the over all perception of the fully-qualified mental health professionals but also their profession. Parents,grand parent and other figures of authority in the next generations home life need to stand up and push back against the invasion of emotional learning in our nations K-12 educational system.

    The other outcome of this trend that i find disturbing and upsetting is that parents aren’t standing up at their local school board meetings and saying no more. What I’m honestly find quite offensive is that the pendants on mainstream media outlets like Fox News,NBC, etc ,etc aren’t doing there jobs, thus meaning that the media is not providing the general populous of our nation with fair,balanced and unbiased information. I’m honestly disheartened to see this sad situation as a young person who grew up watching The MacNeil/Lehrer hour now the PBS News Hour nightly with my parents whom taught both my younger sister and I the value of honest,un-objective,fair,balanced and through reporting as well as freedom of press.

  • My feeling about president Trump

    As we are all good and darn aware the democratic cabinet for US president Kamala D. Harris lost to former president Trump. I’m quite upset by certain Trump appointees for instance the former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment Linda McMahon over at the US Department of Education, who want to defund our nations public education system in favor of charter schools.

    This move to either severely cut back on or fully eliminate founding for public education hurts those whom don’t have the financial means to place their children in aforementioned charter schools. The other move that president Trump has made that I see potentially being a precursor to distributing America and setting our progress as a nation back as well.

    Furthermore, I’m really scared about Elton Musk and his Department of Government Efficacy(DOGE) might go after social security which could have the potential of causing hundreds if not thousands of Americans of all ages significant financial hardship.

  • My THOUGHTS on Americas current presidential ADMINISTRATION

    Aa we all know well and good by now president Trump has been in office for 100 days. In this short amount of time he and his cronies have gone and either completely gutted or severely reduced the number of employees in key organizational roles ac crossed several key governmental organizations. The scariest cuts are those that effect the Social Security Administration(SSA),department of education,the Department of Justice(DOJ). If you ask me I think that president Trump has taken advantage of the office of commander and chief and used it to weaponize several key departments acrossed the federal government.

    Most recently President Trump has told the civil-rights division of the DOJ to focus on combating antisemitism,the participation of transgender athletes in ladies sports and what trump and his allies have described as anti-christian bias and the democrats “woke ideology”. Now as a ardent believer in the biblical id yum treat thy neighbor as one would want to be treated. When I look at what I see as the destructive patterns of bot the first Trump administration and the current one I see some very very concerning ,alarming and frankly appalling trends between the two iterations of the Trump administration.

    The trend that I find extremely disquieting how many federal workers have been pink slipped let go and then rehired just to then not only be let go again but also loose their health care insurance. This is concerning to me because these folks went into the civil service because they where expecting to have secure jobs with witch they could pay a mortgage and raise families but now they’ve essentially been stripped of what some people would consider a part of the American dream. This is because Mr. Trumps crony Mr. Musk is heading up what I can only describe as a ruthless cut and gut of what they perceive as governmental bloat and bureaucracy without realizing that some if not all of the people who’s lives that they are essentially upending went into civil service because the wanted to server their country.

  • Economic hardship for everyone

    The current economic situation not only here in the United States but as a ripple effect from the potential economic fire and brimstone coming from the second incarnation of the Trump administration. These aren’t just scary economic times that are ahead for everyone here in America from the youngest generations to the retiree. No I’ll admit that I’m not a qualified party to spout off about the statistical figures that we’re talking about here and furthermore the views shared here in this post are only mine.

    I’ll admit that I’ve lived through some pretty darn scary economic situations for example the great recession of 2008-09. But I digress the hardships that we faced in that time of economic uncertainty and hardship are by no means as bad as the ones that we may well be staring down the barrel of in these days,months and years ahead. I knew that once President Trump and his clever happy right hand man Mr.Musk are perusing what with the formation of Department of Government Efficacy and all that’s going on in our nations capitol and else where.

    I’ll admit that I’ve struggled with budgeting my money and I’m not going to run from this fact. I’ve also struggled to evade my need to constantly felt the compulsive need to switch both Banks and Brokerage houses. At certain points I’ve even attempted to migrate to one of the reloadable cards like the green dot or one of the plethera of other reloadable financial products.