[Coyote]

I spend a fair amount of time in Asia, mostly India and China. I was in India a month after the tsunami, and the way those people figure things out on their own is amazing. They do not wait for, or expect any handouts for anything. Everyone helps everyone. It's in their culture, where here, people *expect* to get something for nothing just because they live here.

My 15 year old nephew was riding a quad at my brother in laws house, and he flipped it on a small dune. The first words out of his mouth were "There should be a sign on this hill warning you to be careful". This totally disturbed me, he takes no responsibility for his stupid actions. In his mind, it was not his fault that he was going too fast and screwing around. This is the type of thinking that become the norm, and it scares the shit out of me.