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To: BenLurkin
The top rated comment from the CBS site:

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Put me in charge of food stamps. Food Stamp ATM cards could only be used for food without the ability to get cash. No money for junk food, alcohol, tobacco, or sodas - 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, alcohol or tobacco, 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, Xbox 360 or a cell phone, 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 might be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing or whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims, low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and use that $$ to reduce the debt.

Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money youhave to accept our rules. Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin "self-esteem," consider that it wasn't all 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 those bad choices.

AND while you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes, that is correct, since voting would be a conflict of interest. You will abstain from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t welfare check. If you want to vote, then GET A JOB.

3 posted on 08/16/2013 7:00:25 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

AND have random, monthly drug tests for every recipient of government money. Those who test positive would have their government money revoked for eight months.


6 posted on 08/16/2013 7:10:50 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (http://jonah2eight.blogspot.com/)
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To: SkyPilot

Great post from the web site. Reminds me of the rarely quoted verse, “if a man will not work, he shall not eat.”


7 posted on 08/16/2013 7:12:25 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: SkyPilot
So are you willing to submit to all that in return for your Social Security check and Medicare coverage?

If govt. can require such intrusions for welfare, they can require them for govt.-funded retirement programs as well.

15 posted on 08/16/2013 7:53:33 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: SkyPilot

And they are damn skippy correct...except for one part (IMHO): violation of ‘Rights’. It is not the gov’t $$, it is the TAXPAYER $$. That ‘charity’ comes from the end of a gun. Don’t like the new rules, tough sh!te.

LOVE the barracks idea. Good enough for your (wo)men, good enough for the brood mares and the like. BARE minimum and ‘free’ cleaning of parks, streets, rest stops, etc.

Yep, that last part’d get ‘em off ‘assistance’ damn quick


19 posted on 08/16/2013 8:00:53 PM PDT by i_robot73 (Gov't always start as MAY and SHOULD, but soon becomes one of WILL and SHALL. Never let them START.)
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To: SkyPilot
NO PITY FOR THE LAZY!!!
28 posted on 08/16/2013 9:08:20 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: SkyPilot

That is - if there are any jobs to get. Have you forgotten - we are living in the Obama economy? I have much to say on your tyrannical point of view, but will refrain at this point in time.


31 posted on 08/16/2013 9:22:07 PM PDT by Catsrus
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To: SkyPilot

Excellent comment.

My only criticism — ordering residents to go get jobs will only work when the job market has need for employees, and that is when the economy begins to expand. Right now the markets are tanking and there are no jobs available. So how can you order someone to get something that doesn’t readily exist?

Providing depression era-style make work will only go so far, as someone must provide the money to pay for the make-work. Socialism is the problem here, and we shouldn’t acerbate this problem further.

Granted, there are things that can be done immediately to relieve stresses on the system: send illegal aliens home, like President Eisenhower did in the 1950s, freeing up jobs and opportunities for our citizens, for one.

In the small city in which I live, the EBT users make up 50% of the city population. FIFTY PERCENT! When the economy does collapse, this place will be in chaos. Even now there are thefts from community garden plots.


61 posted on 08/17/2013 10:40:43 AM PDT by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITIZEN: BORN IN THE USA OFCITIZEN PARENTS)
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To: SkyPilot

The top rated comment from the CBS site:

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Put me in charge of food stamps. Food Stamp ATM cards could only be used for food without the ability to get cash. No money for junk food, alcohol, tobacco, or sodas - just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away.


Hows this sound? Not only should they get only bags of rice and beans and be fingerprinted, but they should have bio-chips implanted on them so they can be tracked. And undergo sterilization so they can’t have kids? And put in internment camps surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by troops like FDR did with Japanese-Americans? No tv, radio, or newspapers, and no electricity or candles. If it gets dark out, they have to go to sleep. And in order to pay for their food and shelter, all the men, women, AND children must work on chain gangs 20 hours a day. And NO medical care.


62 posted on 08/17/2013 10:41:09 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: SkyPilot

I like rules attached to hand outs of our tax dollars.The LIBS here will tell you that taxpayers do not pay for anything like SNAP, Section 8 housing vouchers, etc. You could have bet that one would question your math. There are always 1-2 smart alecs who look for one mistake or spelling error. WHY? TOO MUCH FREE TIME?


71 posted on 08/17/2013 1:41:51 PM PDT by Lumper20
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