by Dan Sorkin from the Great State of Texas
Put me in charge …
Put me in charge of food stamps. I’d get rid of these welfare credit 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.
If you are trying to scare people into voting Obama, you’re on the right track.
This is just an exercise in sadistic fantasies.
All excellent ideas! Accepting gubmint money always comes with strings attached, so we might as well have reasonable strings.
Those of us who have jobs and pay our bills are tired of supporting the do-nothings.
Requiring these strings would help the recipient and go a long way toward solving our debt problem.
These are excellent ideas. A nation of freeloaders was not what our founders envisioned but the “war on poverty” has fundamentally transformed the way people think about making a living. No longer are we a strong free people girded by faith and our own wits. Too many of us are like infants demanding to be cared for by those who work.
There is nothing sadistic about asking able bodied people to participate in their own upkeep.
It is immoral for people to take the easy path, expecting others to give them not just food or shelter but a lifestyle equal to those who pay their own way.
This plan would create incentives to better oneself.
Juanita this article is tough and maybe extreme, but you must realize it is the voice of frustration, the voters have been fleeced and cheated to the point of anger and revolt. That’s the message here. Please don’t miss the real message because some of the language is too extreme for you. We all know none of these things are likely to happen, but we’re so ticked off it feels kinda good to vent. Then again, there’s a few things here I really do like and would vote for! Drug testing and work programs for instance.
I get it Jack. I like to vent too.
I’d love to see the food stamp program limit recipients to basic staple food. However the lobbyists from the junk food companies & grocery stores like the law just the way it is. There is no reason that someone on food stamps needs to by steak, chip or candy, except for the profit motive by the food companies.
The WIC program does have such limits.
Somebody needs to go find out what Texan taxpayers front to Big Oil/Ag, and what Texan taxpayers front to the underclass and compare the two.
I’d be interested to know.
But I never will.
thanks for this great idea. its really good.
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