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 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 or 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.
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