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Glass
7th January 2013, 02:23 PM
I thought this was good.


Fixing The Problem Isn't Difficult

Via Monty Pelerin's World blog (http://www.economicnoise.com/2013/01/07/fixing-the-problem-isnt-difficult/),

The following was received via email. Supposedly it appeared in the Waco Tribune. We don’t know the author, but we assume those interested could look her up. Since the Constitution no longer matters, we assume we can make her President, even though she doesn’t meet the (formerly valid) age restriction.
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, 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 ligations. 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.



Link (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-07/guest-post-fixing-problem-isnt-difficult)

palani
7th January 2013, 02:43 PM
She apparently wants to view money as substance. While I don't disagree that this is a good goal is it fair to blame those who have been trapped between the commerce web and the safety net? Sort of like being between a rock and a hard place and blaming the rock for doing most of the squeezing.

madfranks
7th January 2013, 03:05 PM
Her heart may be in the right place, but replacing a poorly managed and rotten system with her version of a managed system isn't going to solve anything. Simply reading over her ideas I can envision dozens of ways this would just make things worse. Getting rid of these programs outright is the solution. And I would note that it's already required for tenants of government housing to keep their homes in good states of repair. But they still don't.

collector
7th January 2013, 03:11 PM
While I agree that her solutions would eliminate a lot of fraud and waste in the system, the bigger problem of never-ending wars, monetary inflation and banksters robbing the real wealth of this country are real issues destroying the country.
I think it's better for the real criminals to get us fighting amongst ourselves while they rape and pillage our wealth

Norweger
7th January 2013, 03:16 PM
Fixing the problem is as easy as this: Get rid of the jews.

hoarder
7th January 2013, 03:18 PM
OP makes some good suggestions, however, the majority of taxes and government funds goes into the palms of a few rich banksters. We're so conditioned by left wingers suggesting that parasitism is good, as long as poorer people do it.....that we forget the fundamentals:

All parasitism is bad. The place to start is where a few parasites make a ton of money, then work your way down to the poorer and at last the poorest. The OP has it backwards.

vacuum
7th January 2013, 04:39 PM
I can't say I feel sorry for her or agree with her suggestions. Here's her basic premise:

"I have to work my ass off and be a government slave. Therefore, everyone else should do the same! They should have to be as miserable as I am."

The producers are as much of a problem as the leechers. If the producers simply refused to stop being slaves, that's the solution right there. While the leechers are indeed ignorant, lazy, and a burden on society, they aren't the ones supporting the system and allowing it to continue.