CAN I LIVE?

This question sticks out in my mind today because of the issue of leadership. How can the leaders of tomorrow become and remain strong in this tough world of today? The questions might be on a personal measure within the souls of us; as the future or off-springs of the baby boomers; which lived off of the old style of get you an education, find you a job you can stand, have a family and work till retirement. Now in our time finding a job is hard.
You can make a job but in this era people have kids. Homes have no fathers and the mothers are so young that grandparents are raising the children so that mom can work; or either mom isn’t around either. Some mothers never had responsibility so raising a child is not really their priority.

In the study found on http://www.legalmomentum.org/sites/default/files/reports/worst-off-single-parent.pdf the rate of poverty in single mother families are at 63% in the US and single mother employment rates are holding at a medium of 76% in the US.  Now with both parents in the house are 6% and a median of 15%.

 So where is the examples most of my generation was bought up on? Where are the men? Are strong leaders being formed? The leaders of the past are very quite in this era because they are looking for the young people to step up on their own and make the issues known and not be looking for a handout because if you allow anyone else to lead you then it is no more than having a puppet master to tell you to do this and do that so quieter that they are in public the safer they feel. When behind the close doors the ideal of seeing the young do better is the topic of teatime or dinner conversations; other than the political outlook of how the government should be ran. Where are the men? The count of men in prison now is around 840,000. How many are in college or secondary learning institutes are 1.4million. This was found on black males at http://www.npr.org/2013/04/23/178601467/are-there-really-more-black-men-in-prison-than-college. When you look at the figures males are in college but the leadership that comes from these students that do finish is nothing to shake a stick at. No one seems to take life as serious anymore to live the American dream to build with associates that are business minded and not dope boys/girls that want the fast money now. No building is being done with most people coming out of school because of dependability, looking for the easy way, not knowing how to handle real business without the movements of sleeping your way to the top, or even conspiring a drug cartel to make your mark of getting the funds needed to start your beginning business.

Where is the leadership? Where is the wizard behind the red curtain? Are you the next leader to lead? Ask yourself and if not then find a person that is. If  you can not find a person or not around any leaders. Than think team and you find your reason to lead and a good reason to lead.