WRITTEN BY A 21 YEAR OLD FEMALE.
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.
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.
I love this one....
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.
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A little harsh, but point taken.
ReplyDeleteAll great ideas!! Definitely like the way she's thinking!
ReplyDeleteYes, the letter was published in the Nov. 18, 2010, edition of the Waco Tribune Herald. But it wasn’t written by a 21-year-old female. Just the opposite.
ReplyDeleteAlfred W. Evans, a 56-year-old resident of Gatesville, Texas, wrote the letter to the editor hoping to get others incensed about welfare abuse. What he didn’t expect, according to an interview with him in the Tribune Herald in November 2012, was that the letter would be emailed across the country and become an Internet phenomenon.
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ReplyDeleteWhat about this do you find 'harsh'?? Just wondering...
I love it no matter who wrote it.
ReplyDeleteHarsh? Nope. Common sense, and I love it.
ReplyDeleteI agree 100% with the article.
ReplyDeleteI agree with every word of it.i have a well paying job, all of the bills that come with home ownership and the works. I cannot afford 22" rims or any bling. I can barely afford to buy a new gun if I wanted one! (Sarc).
ReplyDeleteI will share this and get a storm brewing.
Dead cares little about the age of the messager. Sure the old one will work fine.
DeleteThis is very sound thinking in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteEvery word of it is agreeable by me and most Americans.
It is common sense.
I find nothing at all in this piece that is "harsh". It is exactly the best guideline for taxpayers monies.
ReplyDeleteMr. Evans should take a seat in any government chair. He has my vote.
Agree 1000%!! Especially the no vote because it is the welfare recipients that keep voting dem! Get a job or work it off somehow.
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