Pardon me for observing, however it occurred to me we have reached a point in our country where everything is someone else’s fault or responsibility.

Where do we get off with nothing being our own responsibility? If we put on a few pounds around the middle and backside, it is all too convenient to place the blame on the sugary soft drinks or snack makers. It has to be someone else’s fault.

This is not to impugn those who for some medical or hereditary condition are obese, but directed to those who may have not resisted that extra donut or two.

It seems epidemic and crosses all gender and socioeconomic segments of society.

Now that may sound a little frivolous, but it isn’t just our eating habits where we are reluctant to accept any blame or responsibility.

It runs the entire gamut of today’s society both private and professional. One of the other areas we have seen explode with the shirking of responsibility is with children.

Out of wedlock births has risen dramatically and is epidemic.

The burden of providing and caring for children should not fall on just one parent, or on grandma or the welfare system.

The average over all ethnic groups in the United States of out of wedlock births is 40.7 percent. It ranges from a high of 72.2 percent in one segment to the low of 17.1 per cent in another.

Unfortunately, many of the statistics related to poverty follow along with the percentages of single parent and no parent homes for children.

It is a fact that poverty is more prevalent in this environment, as well as the children are more likely to drop out of school, get into trouble, serve time in prison and be impoverished themselves. There are exceptions, of course, but far too many fall into the trap.

A family needs structure with a father and a mother to guide and direct children. The best and most prudent policy is abstinence until married and settled into an occupation sufficient to provide for a family.

Unfortunately, it is the little children who must suffer the consequences for the irresponsible actions of their biological parents. That is why the current trend to destroy the sanctity of marriage is so puzzling and wrongheaded.

Since its beginning, U.S. taxpayers have spent $22 trillion on Johnson’s War on Poverty (in constant 2012 dollars).

Adjusting for inflation, that’s three times more than was spent on all military wars since the American Revolution” according to Robert Rector, Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow. To say the War on Poverty is a gigantic failure is an understatement.

The War on Poverty might better be described as how to keep the poor, poorer.

Until the issue of the family unit is once again main stream and out of wedlock births are curbed, poverty will abound.

Politicians, especially Democrats, are always pointing fingers at someone else being unwilling to accept responsibility for their own failed policies. Most are masters of deception and passing blame to someone else.

Always proposing a better way or a grandiose program to attract the attention of their persuasion, but never coming up with a plan to save money or pay for the ten million failing programs already in place. The name of the State of the Union address should be changed to “what can government promise the masses for votes that is completely unaffordable.“

You never hear one speak of the wasteful spending occurring or the colossal failure of the War on Poverty as evidenced by the 46 million on food stamps. It is a philosophical approach that everything is free and everyone should be compensated the same regardless to their efforts.