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Saturday, December 25, 2010

Put me in charge

This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX 18 Nov 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.

Alfred W. Evans, Gatesville


Thanks to Orbitup for passing that on.

7 comments:

  1. This would seriously undermine the liberal lefts wealth redistribution scheme. Hussein would not approve. Mr. Gates should at the very least be a senator, if not a candidate for the presidency.

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  2. i use to print that newspaper until they laid off all of us hard working union guys

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  3. Right on the mark! Whomever wrote this gets my vote!

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  4. Fuckin'A skippy!
    I sent that around the world.

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  5. Succint and to the point.

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  6. This is the truth. It seems like half of us are hard working folks and the other half are really having fun on the money we make.

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