Welfare in America

I was forwarded this rant in an email from a friend and I thought it needed more exposure. So I'm borrowing it and including it here. While some may find some of the things this young woman writes harsh, I believe they have merit:

"The problems we face today are

there because the people who work

For a living are outnumbered by those

Who vote for a living"

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 Nov 18, 2010  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, 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 someones 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. __,_._,___

Now ... Don't get me wrong. The welfare system has an important purpose in our country. It is there to help those who need a hand up ... Not a hand out. People can use the system to get the things they need to survive while they work to improve their respective lot. Success is out there. Anyone can have it. But it requires hard work and sacrifice. If welfare were strictly utilized for that purpose (with the obvious exception of those who genuinely CAN'T work due to disability etc.) it would be a far more respectable proposition. But when it is viewed as a lifestyle and those using it consider it a life-long situation, the mark has been sorely missed.

Anyway ...
Thanx for spending a little time with me.
I appreciate it.
Billy