It has come to my attention one day last week while an acquaintance of ours was at the public library, there was a crowd smoking outside. Come to find out, they were giving out free cell phones with 250 minutes to people on welfare. If these people can afford cigarettes at $5 a pack (or are we furnishing them also?), they sure can afford their own cell phones. Why not do what taxpayers have to do and get a job, like I had to do?
Your check should go for housing, utilities then groceries. Get a job or schooling and a car without taxpayers’ help. I am tired of working my rear off so they can smoke, have a cell phone and even a car.
What is wrong with us? Time to stop supporting these people.
Harriett Carleton
Merrifield
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Add commentI saw this, too, and as
I saw this, too, and as someone who sees the value on some welfare programs, this one defies any explanation. What really astounded me was the attitude of several recipients who came in early and were upset at the library staff (of all people) because the time of disbursement was noon instead of 9 am. The librarians only role was to book the room where these phones were distributed.
If the recipients can manage to find public transportation and have enough time to wait three hours for a phone, they should also be able to take that initiative to find employment.
First impressions mean everything for programs like these, and the impresison I got was not favorable.
I see the program has been around since 1984, and while the intent may be admirable, what are the odds that the phones were not used for employment and emergency calling?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/cellphone.asp
The level America has fallen to
is shameful.
Obama and his admin don't want to cut benefits like these to people that voted for him, yet if Romney comments in passing that Obama bought the votes, Heaven forbid!! Never mind that he is right.
America used to be based on the concept you work and you eat. Now its based on I work and you eat. Something smells carpish about that to anyone with a nanomicron of logic.
Now, before one of you goes ape and starts screaming, let's state upfront and for the record, that I am 100% in favor of taking care of the elderly, the disabled, and all that fall within those parameters.
I am not in favor of watching unions drive prices up, so their workers can earn more, and pay more taxes so that people that "just don't feel like working this year" don't have to. The term/title workers includes anyone that brings home an earned paycheck and pays taxes, but that would not mean all workers are thus union members.
America is being destroyed from within, Mr Kruschev clearly saw our future when he told us that in the early 1960s. Sadly, it's our own people, eating America to death. And then to boot, they are uniquely obese since they also do little but play Xbox or watch cable. What a sad, sad scenario America has turned out to be.
This from Morris Berman (The Twilight of American Culture)...
"If we can pull together the threads of this discussion so far, it would seem that four factors are present when a civilization collapses:
(a) Accelerating social and economic inequality
(b) Declining marginal returns with regard to investment in organizational solutions to socioeconomic problems
(c) Rapidly dropping levels of literacy, critical understanding, and general intellectual awareness
(d) Spiritual death--that is, Spengler's classicism: the emptying out of cultural content and the freezing (or repackaging) of it in formulas--kitsch, in short."
The snarling decadence
of the liberals is all the notice we need of the end being near. Morals are a thing of the past with Satin's flock.