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A letter published in the Waco Tribune Herald in Waco, TX on 11/18/10:

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 all 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 pay for 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, or 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 say 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 b

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945call
Posted 807 days ago
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Put Me In Charge

A letter published in the Waco Tribune Herald in Waco, TX on 11/18/10:

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 all 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 pay for 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, or 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 say 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.

While you are on Government 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 Government welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.

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.

Alfred W. Evans
Gatesville, TX
hank10303
Posted 807 days ago
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945call

You are so brain washed.

In the 70's, under Welfare as is was called then, there were no food stamps. There were no frills food distribution centers. Where the basic foods were distributed to welfare receptients I think a coulpe of times a month. They would come to the center with a letter of how much of what they were entitled to have and leave with a shopping cart full of products. It was a way to also utilize the over production of food grown and not sold by farmers, instead of wasting it as is done today.

Original Food Stamp Program
During the depression, some farmers had a surplus of food, while others could not afford it. The government, under Roosevelt, began purchasing surplus food and devised a food stamp program, whereby the needy could purchase stamps for food (orange stamps) and be eligible to receive free blue stamps for surplus food. By 1943, World War II helped restore the economy, and the program ended.
http://www.ehow.com/about_5369678_were-food-stamps-introduced.html

Today's food stamp program is called the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP). The program replaces physical food stamps with an Electronic Benefits Card (EBT) with which recipients can purchase food. The EBT card is expected to reduce both program costs and the fraud that occurs when participants sell the food stamps for money instead of using them for food.
hank10303
Posted 807 days ago
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945call

One more thing. I think you have a basic understanding of math. With the public assistance inspectors and additonal personnel to make sure there are no plasma TV's, or norplant implants, drug test, alcohol and nicotine, distribution centers and the like for food - how exactly will you be saving money by creating a need to build or rent all the office space, inspectors and administrative staff to keep track of all the files and information you growing government will need. In addition, do you really think any of your "ideas" are constitutional. REALLY!
945call
Posted 807 days ago
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Hanker, in case your interested, my brother has a fish market. He is forced to accept EBT for purchases, for which he recieves payment days after regular credit or debit cards. Many of the EBT users drive up in new cars, some Caddies, and buy the limit on the card in lobsters, oysters and crab meat. Great program, huh?

The old way seems to be much better, doesn't it. Why do you think we changed? I guess this way isn't so demeaning for those valuable voters.

How about the rest of the letter.
945call
Posted 807 days ago
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Hanker says, "One more thing. I think you have a basic understanding of math. With the public assistance inspectors and additonal personnel to make sure there are no plasma TV's, or norplant implants, drug test, alcohol and nicotine, distribution centers and the like for food - how exactly will you be saving money by creating a need to build or rent all the office space, inspectors and administrative staff to keep track of all the files and information you growing government will need. "

Read the letter again. We'd have a new workforce to do all the basic work, the moochers, themselves. The rest of the people we would need would be like a new jobs program.

God this sounds better all the time.
Free
Posted 807 days ago
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I think we would do much better in terms of return if we would police the ultra rich. After all they consume more alcohol and cocaine than the average man. It would also be better to check all their taxes and sheltered companies to make sure they are not cheating the system - now that is money well spent. Rather than making it more miserable for the ultra poor of society.
945call
Posted 807 days ago
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The big difference is the rich use their own money. The moochers us the tax payers' money to buy their booze and drugs; They use my taxes for sure and maybe your taxes too!

What you're talking about is taxing the rich. Still a very dumb idea. Besides, the Fair Tax is coming. It will straighten our many ills.
lastbaldeagle
Posted 807 days ago
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ROTFLMAO! Hank, you, Free, Elziba and Topspin are the poster children for "Brainwashed". Ever had a real job or served in the military? Government 'employment' is a non counter.
lastbaldeagle
Posted 807 days ago
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Looks like the leftie parasite libs are all free from working today and sitting around playing on the internet.
945call
Posted 807 days ago
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I don't think so Bald. About 15 minutes ago the vote count jumped by about 15 or 20 votes. I think one of the Libs has a tool that allows block voting. They must have a friend who actually has a job in a technology company who stole it from someone intelligent!
elziba
Posted 806 days ago
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they have pills for delusions of grandeur
945call
Posted 806 days ago
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Elziba, thank you for this admission. l I hope they're working for you. Maybe you should let The Hankster, Indy and The keeper know about them.
elziba
Posted 806 days ago
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sorry, Charlie...
Bluecoat1776
Posted 439 days ago
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Hank...

A lot of favor for FDR, I guess food stamps were good news for Americans after FDR and the Democrats cleaned out half the wealth of the nation under his Banking Reform Act.
Bluecoat1776
Posted 439 days ago
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Hank...

A lot of favor for FDR, I guess food stamps were good news for Americans after FDR and the Democrats cleaned out half the wealth of the nation under his Banking Reform Act.
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