( I didn’t write this. It is a letter to Waco Texas Tribune)
Put me in charge of food stamps. I’d get rid of Lone Star Cards: No cash for Ding Dong’s 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 on Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we’ll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine. If you want to reproduce, use drugs, alcohol, or smoke, then get a job.
Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military base 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 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, or whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims, low profile tires, and your blasting stereo and speakers, and put that money toward the “common good.”
Before you write that I have 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 your ‘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.
Pretty good huh? Try this one. I don’t know who wrote it:
“When half the people get the idea that they don’t have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end for any nation.”
We now have one ounce silver rounds for 28 cents over spot and 10 ounce silver bars for 23 cent over spot per ounce. No one else can meet these prices. Our supplier bought a mint! Check the web site. – Don Stott.
My books, “Consequences,” or “I Hold These Truths,” can be had by sending a check for $9.95 for each, to Don Stott, 222 S. 5th St, Montrose CO. 81401.