Poverty Is A strategy for Political Gain?

Why is it that we most often have to say ' this isn't necessarily fact as we don't know who this guy is'. Why do we need some so called 'expert' to tell what is fact? Well, does it matter who tells the story as long as it rings true and is something we can believe and agree is needed?

Yeah, this little note below seems harsh as we all have been bombarded by the 'political correct' addition of how we all should act toward those of us that aren't as fortunate, still this is how America was born. Take responsibility for your own actions and live within your means.

The new agenda is 'we will take care of you as long as you always vote for us' mentality has been instrumental in creating more poverty. That is taking from the productive and give to the unproductive as a political strategy.

Rewarding bad behavior with money is a losing proposition. History has proved this as the trillions that have been spent on poverty over the last forty years hasn't worked. Why do continue to the same thing over and over and expect different results?

What? hmmm - this is the definition of insanity.


Put me in charge...
Alfred W. Evans, Gatesville

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.