Put Me in Charge of State and Federal aid

Put Me in Charge of State and Federal aid

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I can’t take credit for this but by GAWD I fully agree with it…

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.

Alfred W. Evans, Gatesville

I would be willing to bet in the long run we’d have LESS unemployed, Less on the Government tit and a lot more producers than parasites…

6 Replies to “Put Me in Charge of State and Federal aid”

  2. I have a bit of a problem with trying to tell people what they can or can’t purchase, but I do see your point. If they are willing to live totally off government assistance, they should be willing to abide by certain restrictions.

  3. LD, I think it boils down to “Who’s Money” We already tell welfare recipients they cant buy smokes or alcohol with food stamps, why not tell them junk food is no good either? IF you want the option to buy what you want GET A JOB. Of course if you are disabled this may not be the case. The underlying issue is comfort. We have made state aid so “Easy” and removed the stigma associated with it, that people have taken it as a way of life. We are better than that.

    Just like you always tell your kds the rules right? They want out of the house so they can live without your rules…Same here. Make it so tough that they want to be on their own.

  4. I’m sure everybody has had a similar experience to this: standing in line at the supermarket behind a morbidly obese woman who’s pushing a cart loaded to the gunwales with steaks, lobster tails, junk food, and colas. She pays for her unearned treasure trove with food stamps, while I, the working stiff whose taxes have helped finance her undeserved bounty, must use what remains of my cash for a few pounds of hamburger & a bag of spuds.

  5. I don’t think this is directed at anyone who through no fault of their own needs the assistance. It IS however directed at the lazy bums who think the world owes them a living to live HOWEVER they choose to live and accepting no responsibility for their actions.

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