July 30, 2012 - PPM - Get A Job

The below letter was in the Waco (Texas) Tribune Herald. It was written by a 21 year old female. Maybe there is hope for our future. (I added the emphasis)

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 legations. 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.

Now, if you have the guts - PASS IT ON...

Jabberwocky Comment - I added the BOLD emphasis for the "Get a Job" phrases because I had several jobs in my past the defined me and help me appreciate money, education, and experience.

Working my way through High School and College, I hade 23 different jobs. Some of the non-mainstream jobs included:

- emptied bed pans at a hospital
- picked up dead bodies for an ambulance service
- provided day care for 8 five year olds
- cleaned a HS stadium after football games
- worked third shift at a hotel
- guessed age, weight, and birthdays at an amusement park
- provided visual entertainment as a dancer

I don't remember there being a "safety net" back when I was growing up. I just found work, got paid, and to quote the late George Jefferson, was trying "To Move On Up."

Get a job, take a job. It may not be your dream job, but it will DRIVE you to get THAT job.

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