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#52
Supposedly written by a 21 year old female in Texas;
Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards (Food stamps in Texas); 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.
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.
Sounds like a plan to me.
Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards (Food stamps in Texas); 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.
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.
Sounds like a plan to me.
#53
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence"
Simon and Garfunkel
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence"
Simon and Garfunkel
#54
Except in America.
This, right here, is why George Washington is and forever will be the greatest President of the USA, and why his avowed enemy, King George III of England, called him "the greatest man who ever lived".
If you don't know why (and the context of the King's comment), you need to reread your history.
#55
that dude schumpeter who came up w/ that phrase 'creative destruction'
i.e. that entrepreneurs power cultures forward
i remember getting a chill when i read he also predicted capitalism would eventually fall to socialism
when intellectuals - whose mindset is pretty much the exact opposite of entrepreneurs - finally gain sway in politics
i look around and can't help but think the dude was/is right
should make for some interesting 'muddle thru' in the years ahead
peace y'all
i.e. that entrepreneurs power cultures forward
i remember getting a chill when i read he also predicted capitalism would eventually fall to socialism
when intellectuals - whose mindset is pretty much the exact opposite of entrepreneurs - finally gain sway in politics
i look around and can't help but think the dude was/is right
should make for some interesting 'muddle thru' in the years ahead
peace y'all
Peace will come after the 2nd Civil War that has already begun (save for the actual shooting part), and will end once the nation has received it's cleansing enema.
#56
#57
"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it." -Andrew Jackson
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"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
Denis Diderot (5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784)
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#60
“The minimum-wage law is most properly described as a law saying ‘Employers must discriminate against people who have low skills.’"
Milton Friedman
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