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Barneget
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9/10/2011 7:28:56 PM (updated 9/10/2011 7:47:31 PM)
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We strayed far off the safety net path with the abolishment of poor farms and orphanages, the introduction of food stamps and housing subsidies, along with allowing a negative EITC. We have allowed the big guv types to redefine earned privilege into basic rights, without responsibility. We are more interested in preservation of self esteem than development of skill sets. We are collectively afraid of being identified by the same big guv types, and religious leaders, as insensitive, uncaring, and racist. Cultural subsets seem to be predisposed to the "it takes a village" mindset. It would be easy to adopt a bumper sticker mindset, for example, "if you can't feed them, don't breed them" or my personal favorite "work, hunt or die", and maybe those thoughts should provide the foundation for reworking entitlements such as food distribution centers vs food stamps with offsets for kids being fed breakfast and lunch at school, projects or poor farms vs section 8 vouchers, orphanages vs grandma paid for fostering her gran chirrens with no extra benefit for the babies momma, limited health stamps vs medicaid, drug testing for ALL receiving taxpayer benefit, except SS retirement and Medicare, mandatory birth control for mothers receiving benefits, and EITC can only go to $0, not result in a negative payment (in itself a savings of $78 billion over 2010), and benefits provided to US citizens and legal immigrants only, elimination of affirmative action and contractual set asides, with troubled schools offering only the educational basics excluding EVERYTHING beyond reading, writing, arithmetic, sciences and discipline. Today, we reward people for answering their booty calls by assuming full responsibility for the outcomes, this while being forced to place the needs of our own families further down the list. We tolerate classroom disruption in public education, we tolerate lower educational standards for the purpose of mainstreaming, we tolerate poor school performance, we tolerate a "balanced curriculum" featuring revisionist histories and crimes against nature, and later, we tolerate poor workplace performance because we live in fear of the alphabets, DoL, DoEd, EEOC, USDA etc.
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