To start your week! This one is a few years old, but…
A Texan’s answer to welfare…
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 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 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.
Lovely thought.
I have claimed you should have to present your 1040 at the voting table to be able to vote. [dependents would be shown at the same time on the 1040]. That would be the modern equivalent of the Founding Fathers’ “You need to own land” to be able to vote. Doing so would prevent the conflict of interest you just named, as the voters would have a stake in Gov’t spending.
Amen!
To be on welfare or food stamps should be for limited time, only for citizens, and then you cannot reapply for 10 years. If you apply being from a foreign country you immediately get sent back.
Hell, Yes! When do we start?!?
Wouldn’t work; makes too much sense. Real tipping point began under Obungler when the metric for assistance programs became how many were signed up, instead of something reasonable like how long they were on or churn (numbers coming on ratio to those coming off).
Put that guy in charge! Now!
Hey Old NFO,
If it could only be so…
Add a few items to the rice and beans, cheese, and powdered milk, and I’d be totally in favor of that. I’d want to have the input of some people who understood nutrition to decide what those few items would be, though. You know, vitamins and stuff.
I recall reading an article by a prominent SF author about making the staple items free for the taking in every grocery store. Wish I could remember who wrote it and where I read it. Seems like it might have been Niven or Pournelle, but it could have been Asimov. Pretty sure it was a semi-serious proposal, though, with the primary limitation being that it would eliminate some bureaucracy, therefore making it taste bad to governments.
Add voting to your list. Those living on Welfare should lose the right to vote. If you ain’t helping pull the wagon you have no say in the direction it travels.
In addition to the rice and beans, cheese and milk, I would add vegetables. Like beets, turnips, spinach, potatoes, carrots. And add in fruit like apples, pineapple, peaches and pears.
People who eat junk feel like junk. People who eat like responsible adult types are going to feel more like acting like adults and get a job.
For Seniors over 70, or folks who are seriously disabled–verified by 2 doctors picked by not the applicant–we can discuss other options.
And, yes, agree with not being able to vote when on welfare or SNAP.
Tsk, tsk. Can’t have all those hurt feelings flooding social media and MSM interviews.
Not really feeling this one as humour, more of a plan to partially fix what’s broken.
All- Thanks! Sadly, apparently most of those who are drawing it don’t even know how to cook, according to an interview I saw this morning…sigh
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great post!
Good on ya!
A very good start.
Add….murder, rape, kidnapping, treason, sodomy and narcotics get the death penalty, same day, on the courthouse lawn, by hanging, corpse taken down at sunset and burned, ashes scattered on dungheap.
False accusers get the penalty they tried to apply to their intended victim.
Judges and lawyers are held responsible for false verdicts, or re-offenders. If it can be reasonably proved the officers of the court either railroaded someone or whitewashed them, they share the penalty involved.
No prison industry. Thieves get forced labour until they pay back fourfold.
No restrictions on armaments or speech. If someone foments a nazi or commie or musloid revolution, they get shot down by free argument or free guns.
No muslims, commies, nazis, satanists, sodomites. Cease, leave, or die.
No sovereign immunity for government officers. Do a crime, pay what anyone else would.
No foreign ownership of land, commerce, media.
No fiat currency.
States’ rights.
No dual citizenship.