Posted on 09/03/2022 4:10:26 AM PDT by sodpoodle
This, from a 21-year-old female, was in the Waco Tribune Herald in Waco, Texas on November 18, 2010 (maybe…I haven’t checked it; but it sounds good anyway!).
"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 and your own place.
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 government welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.
*two thumbs up*
Yes!
This sounds like common sense, but it is uncommon and it is good sense.
That’s a keeper.
Thanks.
Sounds reasonable to me.
I remember stories from a relative in Louisville. She worked as a cashier and saw working, people buy bread and bologna and then a person with food stamps (before ebt cards) would get steak and shrimp.
Wonder if it’s still that way?
Launch day bump!
;-)
And also be prepared for the cities to burn and wide scale riots. It’s the same reason they don’t want to make conditions in prison too harsh because it leads to prison riots.
It's worse. Follow the EBT trash out to their car in the parking lot. Their car will be new and they will have the latest iphone.
You can bet your asparagus it is.
Your hired!
We are headed for war anyway; better to fight from a position of strength. Let them burn the cities down and riot, then pass laws so they can be shot on sight.
“I don’t want to work, I want to bang on these drums all day.”
5.56mm
This is the way the dole should be.
It won’t be, but should be.
....you’re ......jus’ sayin’ ......
I think prison riots should be dosed with some that spare VX gas.
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