Posted on 09/27/2014 7:35:29 PM PDT by huckfillary
When I was growing up, my mother made me write and send Thank You notes to each and every person who ever gave me a gift—Christmas gifts, birthday gifts, graduation gifts, you name it. It’s a habit I carried into adulthood. When my wife and I were married, we had Thank You cards in the mail within a week of the occasion. We have been blessed with a 17-year-old son. Ever since he’s been old enough to grasp a pen, he has been sending out Thank You cards for every gift received on every occasion. It’s only right and proper. Common decency and etiquette demand it. We must express our appreciation to those who have given to us.
I think every person on public assistance should be required to submit a heartfelt Thank You note to the taxpayer as a requirement of continued assistance. In order to receive the next welfare check or allotment of food stamps, each recipient should be required to submit a Thank You letter to their caseworker or local public assistance office, no fewer than 100 words, which would then be scanned and posted to a public website. This requirement would cover all forms of public assistance. An extra letter would be required for every publicly-funded visit to a doctor or emergency room. Non-citizens would not be exempted. And the letters would not be accepted nor credited until they were free of grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors. I review all of my son’s Thank You letters and do not let him mail them until they are free of error.
If most of us, as a matter of common etiquette send Thank You notes to our benefactors, why shouldn’t welfare recipients be required to send Thank You notes to their benefactors, the taxpayers? One, it would do right by the taxpayers, who are without their consent, forced to subsidize the welfare recipient’s livelihood. Two, it would reinforce the principle among welfare recipients that someone, without their explicit permission, is paying for their rent, their groceries, and their medical bills. It would make them express their appreciation and make it publicly available for review by their benefactors, the taxpayers. And most importantly, it would place a requirement, however minimal, upon the welfare recipient for the continued receipt of benefits. Such a requirement would add a whole new meaning to the word “entitlement.”
That’s racist!
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I can’t write cursive.
Don’t expect any in cursive.
When I taught welfare and food stamp recipients resume writing and job-seeking skills, I always told them to send a “thank you” card the day of or the next day after a job interview. It puts your name in front of the employer again during the decision-making process.
Its government. What would happen is they would create a form thank-you letter, document #ty-232-E. Check box for "thank you," "express gratitude," or "heartfelt feelings." If you can not fill out this form, or have special language needs, you can request case-worker to fill out for you. You also have the right to express ingratitude, in which case required form is FU-1234. Form must be submitted within 120 days.
Who needs cursive? You shouldn’t curse in a thank you card anyway!
LOL!!! Good one!!
Giving birth to a 17 year old must have been a difficult delivery.
Well done.
According to my bride, that practice remains.
It is a good idea. However, the problem is that most welfare recipients cannot even write their own names. How do you expect them to write ‘Thank You’ notes?
Dream on!
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