Irresponsible parents

I was following a debate between an expatriate and a local. The local was bashing the government, the expatriate was defending it.

A few things said were very true. One of those being that people are overly dependent on the government to spoon feed wealth to them. Take for example oil subsidies - how many people actually think that subsidies should be removed for the benefit of the nation as a whole? Many preferred the picture of an easier life led by subsidies, even when such policies are clearly unsustainable.

Another thing is with education and admissions to local universities, in which this was pointed out:

Anyone who relies on ANY gov't to educate their children properly is an irresponsible parent.

Too true. Too many parents who failed to support their children's education is relying on the government - on subsidized books, school fees, and government scholarships. Fine for people that worked really hard for scholarships but were skipped due to race and religion, but not fine for parents who expect the government to actually make tertiary education cheap for them.

I do agree that it is the government's duty to improve the education of its people. I don't agree that the government is responsible for our children's education, just because there are God-damned irresponsible lazy parents.

Too many people should not have had any babies in the first place.