PUT ME IN CHARGE!!

A Texan's letter to the Waco Tribune Herald

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!