I have heard a lot of arguments in the past 30 days that were heartfelt, tear-jerking and really moving testaments to the wonders of Christmas and the spirit of giving that is what the holiday season is all about...and apparently it is all a bunch of Reindeer shit (Not to be mistaken for Unicorn crap, which look and taste like gumdrops). Two weeks ago, it was "Republicans in the House are taking $40/paycheck from every working family because they are Scrooges." This means no family pizza Friday night, or maybe an electricity bill goes unpaid...because the poor in this country are barely making ends meet, and that $40/paycheck is the difference between starving and being able to share a Christmas meal with family. And then...Christmas spirit, and that extra $40/paycheck turns into mayhem, riots, fights, peppersprayings, and even women beating the hell out of each other to get a chance to buy $200 Nike shoes. These are the same poor innercity black families who are taking a break from preparing their Holiday meals (thank goodness for the Social Security raping tax holiday extension of two months) in order to stand in line to spend close to $200 for a pair of shoes that probably has $6 worth of material and low cost labor putting it together. Next thing you know, there's gonna be a government program to subsidize the cost of Nike's to innercity poor, paid for with a tax on the 1% no doubt. And some people wonder why I am not more sympathetic to the "poor"...probably because I have $20 payless loafers on, and my tennis shoes for working out were $40...and they last a couple years. Yeah, I am a little bitter about these poor souls...it reminds me of Oprah's comment:
When asked why she built a school in South Africa instead of Chicago...she said, "I asked the kids in Chicago what their most important NEED was, and they said Ipods and Nikes. When I asked the kids in South Africa, they said 'textbooks and other teaching aids.'" Yeah...that sounds about right. Good thing they got their $40 tax holiday extended, those ipods are expensive, and they only take cash...not foodstamps or vouchers. But it brings up an interesting idea:
What if we stopped all welfare, foodstamps, section 8 housing, etc. and instead contracted Apple and Nike to give tax deductable donations of ipods and shoes to everyone in "need", but they had to buy their own food and pay rent and no more welfare. Would they do it? By "They" I mean the recipient class (AKA Deadbeat grifting 'poor' leaches on society). It seems that the important things to them are shoes and ipods, so if we save money on welfare, and give out shoes and ipods...we may be able to save a ton of money. Reid, look into this will ya? Maybe put a restriction on it, like you have to have a job to qualify...or you must have your childsupport paid to get your Nike. I'm not sure, but I'll bet the needle moves with this incentive...we won't cure all their issues, but nothing gets a lazy bum off his ass faster than a motivation based on what is important to him.
There is one possible downside of this idea, and that is what will PROBABLY happen if this idea catches on. Instead of substituting welfare for shoes/ipods, the lazy recipient class will start to demand the shoes/ipods AS WELL AS the welfare, because we know that once the gov't starts a program, it takes an amendment to the constitution (prohibition) to end it. And if the program is a giveaway, it never ends...ever...even if the problem the program was tasked with fixing is gone...the program lives on. So now instead of a solvent Social Security fund, we'll have pizza eating poor folks wearing Nike's in their gov't housing and all it costs us in this country is our very future. Maybe the $10,000 bet Mitt Romney made isn't as big a deal as the pundits said...I mean, Mitt probably wears $200 shoes as well...but I doubt he had to play "knock out" with someone in line to get them. ( Google it, it's an inner city game the "youts" are playing nowadays.) Merry Christmas, I hope you enjoy our free gifts we keep giving to you all...no need to write us a thank you note...it's our "patriotic duty" to pay our taxes. This is getting old...fast. I wonder if I can even afford a pizza night...but Harry Reid doesn't care about my plight...
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