Put me in Charge

Granitegrok ^ | 7/11/2011 | TIM CONDON

[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.

[Semper Vigilantis]

Two problems, one solution. Let ‘em kill each other, then hang the survivors.

I went to an unemployment office once - back in 1988. I had been working full time and paying the guvmint fee for the last 14 years. I walked in, looked around and said “I’m better than this” and walked out. Found an entry level job in a new field and worked my way up. Eventually became self employed. Screw anyone that can’t make it in the USA.

[aquila48]

Excellent, I’m 110% in favor!

Let’s draft her for president.

[zeugma]

Wonder if it’s still that way?

Yup. These people have no self control or sense of propriety. I wouldn't mind the meat and such, but they'll be washing it down with a case of ho-hos and name-brand soft drinks. The author of this definitely has it dead on. If you want anything but rice and beans, get a job.

[Phoenix8]

I mind the good meat.

My family hasn’t bought first class steaks in months , except a few 6 oz steaks at restaurants and cheaper cuts around the house. When my kids were younger and at home we used to have a steak night every other week or so, big sirloins usually then grill them. Have enough for breakfast the next day. Like 12 or 16 oz steaks.

those days are gone for me I guess (yes..I could still do it but spend less on something else)

[zeugma]

Kinda different for me growing up I guess. My folks owned a smallish grocery store, with a butcher dept, so we always had plenty of meat and stuff. Sometimes we didn’t know exactly what the veggies and stuff was going to be until we opened the randomly chosen can without a label.

[WhattheDickens?]

Too rational! Actually there’s some relation to human motivation, the reason would never be applied.