I just had to write this down. Okay, so last night I had to go by our friendly neighborhood HEB to pick up a couple of things. As I go to get into the "express" lane, I get beat out by a group of people for 1st place in line. Oh well, worse things have happened. Turns out that the group actually turns into 2 groups when it comes time to pay. The first girl puts her package of tortillas, a couple of other things, and a couple of Snickers bars on the conveyor belt. Then she proudly whips her Lone Star card out and swipes it to pay. Funny thing is, it's ACCEPTED! She got to pay for her damn Snickers on MY MONEY!!!
The second group starts putting their stuff on the belt...a piece of cake, a piece of pie, sushi, a couple of onions, and a couple of quarts of beer. I'm thinking to myself "this ought to be interesting". The second girl is kinda trying to hide her card when she swipes it, but something happens and the register doesn't accept it. The cashier tells her to swipe it again, then says to her, "I don't know what the deal is, our machines have been having a problem with Lone Star cards lately". Sure enough, when she swipes it again, I can see it's the good old LS card. This time it accepts it for everything but the beer! EVERYTHING BUT THE BEER!!!
Now, I'm all for helping out people whe need a break. Everybody falls on hard times and needs a hand every now and then. But for my tax dollars to go to pay for cake, pie, candy and sushi is frickin ridiculous! If you get money on a Lone Star card, you ought to be able to buy rice, beans, milk, a big ole hunk of cheese, maybe even some fresh veggies and fruit and eggs. But that's about it. There's a lot of good, hard-working people in this world who can't afford to buy candy bars and other crap like that, but they are working and paying taxes so that other people CAN! That whole system is so screwed up it could be the work of the government!
And while we're at it, why in the hell don't you have to do any kind of work to get a welfare check? Or pee in a cup? I think in order to receive a check, first, you have to pick up trash on the side of the road all week. (or keep a city block clean, or clean public bathrooms, or mow lawns on government buildings, or something of the sort) Then, you have to take a drug test. We have a random drug test policy at my work. I could get tested at any time.(chances are I won't, since I made up the policy, but still) If you want your welfare check, you better pass the pee test, or "no mo dough"! If you want to whine and bitch about this process, GET YOUR ASS TO WORK! "But there's no jobs" you say. BS. Every time I go to a fast food place there are signs in the window saying help wanted. If you want a job, you can find one. If we make it a little hard to get "free" money, maybe you'll get off your asses!
And furthermore, you get 2 chances at kids. If you get on welfare with one kid, then have another, BOOM! Your tubes get tied. If you don't like it, tough crap! Stop getting knocked up. My job as an income earner in this country is not to support your lazy no-good asses. It is to support my own lazy no-good ass!
There, I feel better! :)
Damn straight!
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