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This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX
Put me in charge . . .
Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.
Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job.
Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job.
In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the “common good.”
Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.. Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.
If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.
AND While you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.
- tubal ligations? Guessing a dude wrote this, since there's no mention of vascetomylocustsloth
- this person also needs to be slappedlocustsloth
- Hmmm seems legit right?********
- I suppose he was referring to some sort of birth control mechanism, but whatever. Its awesome.********
- i trust you are being facetious.
This person regards anyone who needs help (for any reason) as a lower form or beinglocustsloth - awesome is not the word i'd describe it as. Arrogant and bereft of compassion are more fittinglocustsloth
- Opinion********
- indeedlocustsloth
- but he has some points. some of that shit is OUT OF CONTROL in my neck of the woods, at least!********
- only thing i sort of agree on is having welfare recipients work for the government, so long as they're physically able tolocustsloth
- yes, that's a good one!********
- "he current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices." like that!********
- But that assumes that there were choices made rather than circumstances occurringlocustsloth
- which, again, assumes that those who need help need it because they were stupid, foolish and/or lazylocustsloth
- which can SOMETIMES be the case. This person, however, doesn't seem to care or think about cases of legitimate needlocustsloth
- only those who he perceives as bilking the system, which he assumes is everyone or nearly everyonelocustsloth
- He's being facetious, obviously, but it raises some good points and his ideas aren't easy to just implement********
- i agree with all of these statements on the left.********