paulg_68 posted:

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Mostly agree. 2 things I disagree with though. 1) People on food assistance need protein. Beans and cheese won't cut it. 2) It would be inappropriate to take away their right to vote on social issues. Just financial ones.

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armoredgimp posted:

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I agree with the premise.

I do however think the author may be a tad racist and sees the world as black and white.
Absolutes just dont work in social programs
Having said that you can eat for a week on a pound of beans

paulg_68 posted:

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Mostly agree. 2 things I disagree with though. 1) People on food assistance need protein. Beans and cheese won't cut it. 2) It would be inappropriate to take away their right to vote on social issues. Just financial ones.

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http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/beans-protein-rich-superfoods

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armoredgimp posted:

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Written by Alfred W. Evans in the Waco Tribune Herald in Waco, TX, on 11/18/10

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."


/discuss

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armoredgimp posted:

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Written by Alfred W. Evans 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 recipients for drugs , alcohol, 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 aplasma 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 mistakes and 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 the voting rolls while you are receiving a Government welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.




Harsh

Out of bounds IMO
AND while you are on Government subsistence, you no longer can VOTE!

/discuss

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Ptilk posted:

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Put me in charge and I wont mess with the piss poor people who live lives of desperation and of no meaning....

Instead, I'll be out there kicking the asses of the bankers, CEO's and others whose actions make honest working peoples lives more desperate and empty.

I can't understand why people bitch so much about unimportant crap, but don't give a damn about things that actually affect them. Must be stupidity.

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Voodoo-Dahl posted:

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armoredgimp posted:

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Written by Alfred W. Evans in the Waco Tribune Herald in Waco, TX, on 11/18/10

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."


/discuss

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Yeah, I wonder who he had in mind when he wrote this.

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armoredgimp posted:

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Written by Alfred W. Evans 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 recipients for drugs , alcohol, 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 aplasma 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 mistakes and 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 the voting rolls while you are receiving a Government welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.




Harsh

Out of bounds IMO
AND while you are on Government subsistence, you no longer can VOTE!

/discuss

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