Naturally, I have no idea whether attribution is correct. And I don't care. It is the content that matters, and that is sterling.
The Gunslinger
This was written by a 21 year 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, 2011
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 legations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine. If you want to reproduce or 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.
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."
She does not go far enough.
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At the risk of pissing off a lot of folks I have this to say. This should encompass ANYONE that receives a paycheck paid for out of taxpayer dollars with the exception the military and possibly the police and firemen.
BUT....BUT gummint employees and public sector unions pay taxes too you say. Oh really? And just where to they get the money to do that? Out of the private sector taxes that they get paid out of. So in essence, YOU are paying their taxes....and their grocery bill and gas and sending their kids off to college etc.
They really don't have any "skin in the game" and it is a conflict of interest for them also.
Am I wrong?
We all vote our interests, so that's not really an indictment in and of itself. But you're right...when the govt grows to such an extent that it, and its employees have a vested interest in growing it every bigger and stronger, and using it as a weapon to force the rest of us to do their bidding whether in forced obedience or in lavish financial support...things have gone seriously off the rails.
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