Stop Your Whining!

I was watching the nightly news with Brian Williams on Tuesday. At the end of the broadcast he was reporting on high gas price and the pocket book pinch that people were feeling over this holiday weekend. On the NBC website they asked people to email in the adjustments they made over the weekend to celebrate on such tight budgets. Everyone is making adjustments due to high gas prices these days, but I was just appalled at some of the responses. One person said that they had to eat "regular" hamburgers on Memorial Day instead of the usual barbqued ribs. Another person said they had to buy discount ground beef for their "regular" hamburgers. Yet another person was complaining they only got to go to the beach right by their house instead of the one several hundred miles away due to the price of gas. Really? This is your biggest problem? That you got to eat hamburgers instead of ribs? What is this sense of entitlement about? I just don't understand it. These days there are so many successful young people that have so much at such a young age. So you feel like you worked hard and deserve some ribs? Well, there are a lot of farmers in Africa that work hard, too, and I'm sure they are just happy to have anything to eat at the end of long day. Have people become so jaded that they are able to loose their perspective of the world over a stupid hamburger? Really? Most of our generation's parents were much older and had to work much harder to have the things that most of us have so young now. They all wanted things to be easier for us, and they are, but do we really need to complain about going to the beach and being able to eat anything? Have you turned on the news lately to see the devastation in Myanmar and China? Perhaps you heard about the 100's of tornadoes in the midwest? You should be so fortunate to have a roof of any sort over your head and any sort of "regular" food to eat! I quote John Stossell - GIVE ME A BREAK!