I don't think that you have to be a real discerning person to know or to realize and see what has happened if you've lived long enough just in the last few decades in this country.

Is that somehow in the last two or three decades we have developed an insatiable desire for passing the blame, for shifting responsibility,

for pointing fingers, and for passing the buck. It feels sometimes that owning up to your

own responsibility is a thing of the past. Now, I have grown up in a culture that does not have any Christian ethics in it, that does

not have Christian work ethic in it, and I know that this kind of mentality can do to a nation

literally make it fall apart.

And I pray that this would not develop here, because we have a foundation of Protestant work ethic that has made this nation great, of hard work and of accepting responsibility.

But somehow of latter days, we found that a murderer gets away with his murder and he says, well, don't blame me. I was just temporary insane.

Blame my insanity. And then gets away with his murder. A criminal gets off scot-free and he says,

society made me the way I am. Don't blame me. Blame society. And then we have folks that have been on welfare roles

and freeloading and they say, don't blame me, blame the government. But you know what? In their case,

I think they're right. It is the government to blame. Somebody said we are perfecting the art of shifting

blame. It was T.S. Eliot who said,

humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Somebody says, don't confuse me with the facts.

And you know you watch children when something goes wrong.

And the first thing they do what?

He did it. She did it, the cat

did it, the dog did it, the neighbor did it, everybody else did it except taking responsibility

for what happened, owning up to their responsibility and the responsibility for their action.

I read recently about young Jeremy, he was asleep downstairs in the bedroom downstairs.

His mother was asleep upstairs. He was nine years of age. He's a hyperactive type kid.

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