Cover your childrens' eyes

Ever wonder to yourself, amid all the violence abroad and corruption on the home front, what our leaders are teaching our children?  Conservatives are right that one of the most pressing moral problems in this country is the breakdown of family values.  But our family values are under attack not because of Hillary Clinton or liberal Hollywood, but due to the currently unstable economic and political conditions in this country. 

On the economic front, Median wages and average family income are down.  Insurance and education costs are up.  More Americans are working into their 60s.  Many single mothers who are not working at least two jobs have already created an insurmountable amount of personal debt.

Politically, we have leaders that stretch the facts on issues to the point where nearly 2,500 Americans have literally died to know the truth.  For example, AP writer Pete Yost discussed in his latest piece how Karl Rove is being rewarded for misleading the public:

The decision not to charge Karl Rove shows there often are no consequences for misleading the public.

In 2003, while Rove allowed the White House to tellthe news media that he had no role in leaking Valerie Plame's CIAidentity, the presidential aide was secretly telling the FBI the truth.

It's now known that Rove had discussed Plame's CIAemployment with conservative columnist Robert Novak, who exposed heridentity less than a week later, citing two unidentified senioradministration officials.

Children are supposed to know that there are always consequences for their actions.  But when the leaders of the society that they live cannot pass that moral test, again it needs to be asked what message this sends to our children?  And this is is a question that I challenge all conservative minded individuals to ask themselves.