A Story about People in Texas fed up with Welfare

[Teleskopia]

I was reading some stuff in the other topics about the mess this country's in and one of the points discussed was welfare. I was kind of neutral on the subject because I never realized how people on the programs abuse it until I got a job as a cashier in a local market a while ago. A friend of mine fw'd this e-mail to me yesterday and I thought I'd post it so you guys can read it.

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Subject: This was written by a 21 yr old female who gets it. This was written by a 21 yr old female who gets it. It's her future she’s worried about and this is how she feels about the social welfare big government state that she’s being forced to live in! These solutions are just common sense in her opinion. This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX Nov 18, 2010

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 Gov’t welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job. Now, if you have the guts - PASS IT ON...

[Imperator Rex]

This is great! It pretty much sums it up. The problem with many welfare programs trying to scale back is the fact that these programs have the idea built in that people are entitled to get them. California LOVES to advertise free this and free that. I would think they could take all that money they waste on these additional programs and the advertising that goes with them and funnel it back to the schools.

This morning I went to 7-11 to buy a Rock Star on my way back after dropping the kids off at school. The woman ahead of me had a quart of milk and three of those 8oz bottled frappecinos. She paid for these using here food stamp "EBT" card. After she left I asked the clerk if she bought those frappecinos with her food stamps. He embarrassingly said yes..."it's on the list." Are you kidding me? These slugs can use their food stamp card TO BUY FRAPPECINOS? So, the underlying concept here is let's reward these leeches for not working and being unproductive.

[The Ruescher Empire]

Interesting ideas, too bad people will never let it happen. Honestly I've heard of people on welfare programs getting cell phones and crap. Why the hell would anyone ever want to get off it?

[Imperator Rex]

That is exactly why nothing ever gets done about reforming the system. Even if the people elect representatives who support pulling back programs and putting the breaks on the abuses, the courts will step in and say such reform practices are discriminatory because they single out a particular group of people. It doesn't matter that particular group of people just happen to be deceptive lazy asses who can get up off the couch and go to work...once they put down the crack pipe that is.

[Dalmato-Croatia]

That girl's got the right idea. "We'll sell your 22" rims and your plasma TV." Hell, send them over my way! There are too many people living on EZ street!

[The Ruescher Empire]

Imp to my recollection the courts have never stepped in and prevented the government from reducing various sections of the budget. The problem is not so much the courts, so much as political will. America hasn't had political will of any kind since the Soviets were done away with.

[Sabastos]

OK the courts haven't stepped in very much, but I can remember a couple of years ago that the LA Unified School District got itself in some trouble when it tried to scale back some of its programs like free lunches and breakfasts. It almost went before a judge but the school district backed out and decided not to scale that back. I think they knew it would look like they were targeting "low income minorities" and they didn't want the bad publicity. They also faced some potential legal problems when they wanted to shut down some schools in the Crenshaw area for the same reasons. I don't want to sound insensitive, but drop-out rates are the highest among certain minority groups, so why would keeping certain schools open make any difference anyway? Maybe it's the free meals...I don't know. So, the district couldn't scale back free meals and they couldn't close certain schools which means they had to cut back in other places leaving less for other students in other area. Is that fair? No. Why should we cater to one particular group of people at the expense of others?

[The Ruescher Empire]

It would be bad publicity for the schools yes, but they would win those court cases. Also I do understand (and approve of) free meals for students in schools. I say this as I fully support a strong public education system, as it is the only public system that benefits society as a whole equally. However America has a horrible time with schools, honestly it's a continuous horror story down there. America has some of the best Post-Secondary schools in the world, but for some reason primary and secondary education they just cannot get right.

Also if they want to shut down schools just make sure it's done for economic reasons, state that the population at the one school is too low so they will be merging it with another, all current students get discounted bus passes, everyone is happy except the students who are now in a bigger school. Did that to my old High School 2 years ago. Only ones who bitched were the students.

[Basileus Romanus]

Yah, we do have a horrible time with schools. That's one of the reasons why dad sent me to parrochial school. I'm not sure if that screwed me up worse emotionally (OMG listen to me, I sound like a girl!) But starting me sophmore year in high school I went to a public high school because I had behavior "issues" according to Sister Therese (matriarchal sadist dominitrix of the school I went to ). When I got to public HS they had to put me in junior and senior calsses because I was too far ahead of the 10th graders. So, yah, you're right. It goes back to what someone else said about the state carring more about welfare mongers than the public ed system.

[The Ruescher Empire]

We have a similar system in Canada, it's called the Catholic School Board. We actually give public funds to it too! What's hilarious is that it's a common saying that the slutiest high school girls around are from a Catholic high school. Honestly any church related school system is fucked up in the extreme. I went to one for 4 years in elementary, I was almost expelled in kindergarten for smacking a teacher in the ass with an umbrella. Then in grade 2 I was accused of stripping and telling a girl to suck my cock Mind you that girl couldn't describe me accurately in any way and I was with other students on the other side of the school (also note I didn't know what a cock was at the time), yet the principle believed that girl. I left the catholic religion behind that day and went to public.

[Admin Imperator]

Mar 11, 2012 1:41:06 GMT Basileus Romanus said:

Yah, we do have a horrible time with schools. That's one of the reasons why dad sent me to parrochial school. I'm not sure if that screwed me up worse emotionally (OMG listen to me, I sound like a girl!) But starting me sophmore year in high school I went to a public high school because I had behavior "issues" according to Sister Therese (matriarchal sadist dominitrix of the school I went to ). When I got to public HS they had to put me in junior and senior calsses because I was too far ahead of the 10th graders. So, yah, you're right. It goes back to what someone else said about the state carring more about welfare mongers than the public ed system.

Yes, public school destroyed you...you can't spell for crap! Use "spellcheck," nitwit!

[Xanxabara]

This article really says what a lot of us have been saying for a while. I think she goes a little too far about taking away their right to vote. She's got the right idea on the other stuff.