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WRITTEN BY A 21 YEAR OLD FEMALE.


This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco, TX.

PUT ME IN CHARGE . . .

Put me in charge of food stamps 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. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine. If you want to use drugs, alcohol, or smoke, 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 Gov't welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.

Lonewolf

I know how frustrated she feels but the people she's down on take nothing but spare change compared to the corrupt elite that
steal far more from our economy

GmanTerry

I wonder if she would like to be President. I would consider her, for sure.

And I say that as an individual who was born in a welfare hospital and my family was on welfare when I was a child. My father who didn't have a high school diploma got an apprenticeship as a machinist and a few years later we joined the Middle Class. New car and a house of our own. And yes, we were all ashamed to be on welfare. Then it was a safety net, not an occupation.

semper Fi

karpenter Loc: Headin' Fer Da Hills !!

That's Why They Switched From Stamps To Cards

GmanTerry

I don't think anyone is ashamed of their EBT card anymore.


Semper Fi

Alicia Loc: NYC

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Please don't give the Republican Congress another method to control voting. They've tried man avenues thus far. Aren't you aware that voting is a right to all citizens Cash on hand is not supposed to be one of the deterrents.

GmanTerry

Don't YOU understand that when the socialists offer the free loaders more 'free' stuff it is BUYING votes? When the Constitution was written, only landowners could vote. That makes sense to me also. My property taxes support education. Why should you people who are the recipients of my property taxes but don't pay property taxes be able to vote to increase them? That, my friend, is taxation without representation. You vote to take more of MY money to benefit yourself but you don't contribute. That is just wrong.

Semper Fi

Lonewolf

take a look at this and tell me what you think https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/business/economy/working-but-needing-public-assistance-anyway.html

GmanTerry

Look, I was born in a welfare hospital and my family was on welfare. We ate eels, turtles and groundhogs. We were ashamed to be living off of other people's money. My uneducated father finally found someone who would train him as a machinist and by the time I was 10, we were middle class. House and car, middle class. Don't tell me that I should have to support anyone forever. People are responsible for their choices and if you make one that leaves you with multiple children and no money, that was YOUR CHOICE, not mine. Having more children without the means to raise them is not society's problem. It was your bad choice to have children without a husband or means to support them. We lived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches when I was a kid. Back then schools didn't feed, for free, all the kids born into homes with irresponsible parents. You had kids, it was your responsibility to feed, cloth and raise them. As the progressives expand the use of public monies to support the lazy and welfare queens, we the taxpayers are being forced to supply more and more of the funds we earn to support OUR families, to support people who are rewarded for making very poor personal choices. A welfare net is indeed needed but there has to be a time limit. Welfare must be removed for the list of career goals. Let them feed their own kids, I need to feed mine.

Semper Fi

Lonewolf

We're on the same page




uote=GmanTerry]Look, I was born in a welfare hospital and my family was on welfare. We ate eels, turtles and groundhogs. We were ashamed to be living off of other people's money. My uneducated father finally found someone who would train him as a machinist and by the time I was 10, we were middle class. House and car, middle class. Don't tell me that I should have to support anyone forever. People are responsible for their choices and if you make one that leaves you with multiple children and no money, that was YOUR CHOICE, not mine. Having more children without the means to raise them is not society's problem. It was your bad choice to have children without a husband or means to support them. We lived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches when I was a kid. Back then schools didn't feed, for free, all the kids born into homes with irresponsible parents. You had kids, it was your responsibility to feed, cloth and raise them. As the progressives expand the use of public monies to support the lazy and welfare queens, we the taxpayers are being forced to supply more and more of the funds we earn to support OUR families, to support people who are rewarded for making very poor personal choices. A welfare net is indeed needed but there has to be a time limit. Welfare must be removed for the list of career goals. Let them feed their own kids, I need to feed mine.

Semper Fi[/quote]

E

I was also born of poor parents. My grandfather came to America legally with his wife and four daughters and managed to feed them as a janitor. My father's family came to America around 1850, legally. None were rich, but all fed multiple kids and wives with hard work. Shortly after my father and mother married, while I was still a small child, they were lucky enough to afford a potato for potato soup. But my father worked almost all my life until he died, seven days a week, yes 365 days a year, running a business he started on his own. He eventually reached the level of millionaire and still worked every day. He never asked for a thing from the government accept a fair chance to make his business a success.

He had this old grunt of a man who worked for him. The guy was having a hard time making ends meet and my father brought him into his office and offered to help him. He told my father that his family was his business and to keep out of it. That was a man even though he could only read enough to fill out his time card. He always worked at least 10 hours a day, often up to sixteen and six days a week. Responsibility.

That is the old days. Yes, some people could use a hand to get on their feet. Sometimes things happen and they have to many responsibilities and not enough options. I submitted the original posting for this string. Yes, this girl was pissed and wanted welfare recipients to do more of their share. We aren't vicious monsters. Some people for various reasons will never be able to help themselves and really need the help. No Conservative wants to completely cut them off. But there are to many on the welfare rolls that could get off if they worked like some of us describe. Yes, we're rightfully upset about some voting for the ones who will give them more of a handout (democrats) instead of a hand up (Republicans). Yes, we're upset about having to pay so much for illegal invaders and their kids. Damn it, go home. Make your own country great through the hard work our parents did. We don't lack compassion. Just a different version then democrats. We think that these continuous handouts hurt America. We're in a shit house full of debt and the democrats and yes, the Republicans are standing over us with a shovel and shoveling away. We need to start using a little more common sense and less blind unhelpful compassion. Maybe more workfare like that girl suggested. More rice and beans and no soda pop, beer, and steaks.

Now. blast away.

GmanTerry

I can't disagree with anything you have said. I just hate to see us continuing down this road to socialism and the complete destruction of the American middle class. Fifteen dollar an hour minimum wage is not a good idea, for instance. I just read this morning that a company has developed a smart burger flipping machine to replace people at fast food restaurants. The law of unintended consequences always takes over and destroys these 'utopian' ideals from the left.

Semper Fi