cant say i dont agree with most of this

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead

A Texan's answer to Welfare

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are
willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson G/Z

From the Nov 18, 2010 Waco Tribune Herald, Waco, TX:
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, get a job!

Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is 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, use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats
and piercings, get a job!

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever lived in a military barracks?
You WILL maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your
"home" will be subject to inspections any time and possessions will be
inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, 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's
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, get a job!

A bunch of overly simplistic BS, right wing propaganda that poor folks are poor because they want to be and are the source of all our problems. People are in need because of their own "mistakes" like being born to the wrong parents, being sick or physically disabled etc etc. The most telling part of this trash is the last part...lets deny the right to vote to folks. After centuries of struggle by women and other minorities to gain the right to vote, lets roll back the clock, maybe land ownership should be a requirement to vote? Of course placing folks in "military housing" sounds a bit like what we did to Japanese Americans in WWII, a real high point in our history...and lets force women to be rendered unable to have children...just like China. All in all, this sounds more like a quote from Hitler than an idea of any American who values civil liberties!