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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 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.
gumboisgood, Fox Nation 41 Comments [9/24/2012 3:21:03 AM]
Okay, Expo. Deep breaths.
I know. I know I shouldn’t be taking personal umbrage over a quote from a blithering idiot on FSTDT. But this one got me, and I feel the need to rant a bit.
See, I’m on government assistance right now. Circumstances related largely to my physical and mental health have left me no choice. And this guy hasn’t got a clue in hell what he is fucking talking about.
I’d get rid of [EBT] 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.
I get 200 dollars a month in food stamps. This is pretty much literally my entire food budget for the month, as my income after rent, bills, and basic leaves me with approximately 80 dollars a month in disposable cash. And I am actually incredibly priveleged to get that much; most states offer significantly less to single people under 65. I use every trick I know to stretch that budget, and I still starve for 3-5 days at the end of every month. Yes, I occasionally use them to buy sodas or snacks and Kamen Rider figurines from Uwajimaya but shhhh when such are on sale, because I don’t actually believe that being poor means I should have to live on fucking gruel and powdered milk. The worst part about this entry was that even in the comment thread that otherwise roundly mocks this post, there are several people that say “I can actually agree with that first entry.” I can guarantee you right now, if you were forced to survive on food stamps? You wouldn’t.
Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I’d do is to get women
Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations.
Forced sterilization for poor folks? REALLY, asshole? You’re really gonna go there? Oh, and let’s take a moment to note that he doesn’t reccommend vasectomies for all men on public assistance. Nope, just those skanky welfare queens. Also HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA DON’T I FUCKING WISH. I know I’m kind of a special case (in that I actually wish I could rip out all the girly plumbing forever), but do you have any idea how actually difficult it is to get a tubal ligation if you’re single, under 45, and childless? The whole purpose of women in the first place is to make babies, dontchaknow.
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.
If I have to listen to this bullshit one more time I am going to shoot myself. Do I own several “consumer electronic” devices? Yes. I am once again extremely priveleged on that account. But my XBox 360 was purchased in 2006 when I was still in college and had a job and a 200 dollar Best Buy giftcard from my birthday, my DS was a christmas gift, my phone is not fancy and is necessary to my everyday life. I did buy my laptop myself, during a period when I had reasonably steady income and help from my mom finding the best discount, and more importantly it is a necessity when I actually DO manage to get work in the field in which I have a degree. To any of my followers who might be living in similar circumstances, let me reiterate this to all of you: BEING POOR DOES NOT MEAN YOU SHOULD BE FORCED TO LIVE IN MISERY. Anyone who tries to guilt you over this? They are idiots, they are assholes, and more importantly: they. are. hypocrites.
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.
Do I actually need to say anything about this?
If we are expected to pay for other people’s mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices.
Bad choices, I have made betimes. Being born with a malfunctioning brain that interferes with my ability to function without certain accommodations was not one of them.
The most hilarious part of this whole bullshit screed, though? These are the guys who are supposedly for a “government small enough that you could drown it in a bathtub”. Who’s going to fund organize and carry out all these inspections? The government. Who’s going to enforce these draconian laws? The government. Who’s going to fund all of this? The taxpayers.
With all due respect, sir, FUCK YOU.
