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Thread ID: 18486 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2005-06-02
2005-06-02 01:48 | User Profile
I just went to the grocery store.
I don't think I've ever been to a grocery store on foodstamp day before.
I knew something was wrong because I saw these big [primitive people] bouncing around the store, loudly, in ragged oversized clothes that looked like they were just pulled out of the dumpster, pushing around four shopping carts worth of food.
And that was just one family.
My estimate is that they had about $400 worth of food in those carts, though, since most of it was ridiculous cheap crap, like cartons of soda and boxes of those plastic-like snack treats, maybe I was wrong. However, it was a lot of food -- more food than I bought at a grocery store in a month when I was single.
And there were more of them. All black or "bi-racial", none of them looking like they belonged in this grocery store in the nicer part of Southern Roanoke, running around with their loud, obnoxious, badly dressed children, filling cart after cart with food.
"How could they possibly afford that much food?" I thought, "Shit, I could barely afford that much food."
And I also wouldn't know what to do with it.
Then I realized the answer. Its the first of the month. Its foodstamp day.
Upon arriving home, I tried to apply for food stamps online. I was rejected. In fact, my application came back saying I would have to pay $1 month to social services -- that my foodstamp card would be issued with negative one dollars.
Here I am, a useful member of society, employing people, improving housing, and making the world a better place. It seems to me that if anyone deserves to be fed at public expense, its me -- someone who contributes to society. But no, I do not qualify for food stamps.
Instead, they are handed out to people who contribute nothing, who know nothing, who are worth nothing.
I have no problem providing social subsidies to working people or others who have hit a few hard breaks. I have something against giving money to people who have never worked or contributed and who have no intention of ever doing so.
This food stamp thing is the final straw. A few days ago, I saw the new housing projects that were built for the blacks out at Lincoln Terrace. These housing projects are a crime ridden mecca of drugs and crime -- but, physically, they are beautiful, $120,000 - $150,000 duplex townshouses. They are in better shape than the houses I own. But the people in them are scum -- and they take these beautiful things and turn them into places where no one in their right mind would want to live.
Why do we feed people who, in a properly-oriented society, would starve? Why can't we just let these people die off -- as they should?
I cannot accept any value system that says that all "human" life has value simply because it is human. A human life that is wasted, without contribution, is worthless, and a moral state would not hurt its people by supporting lives that have no value.
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2005-06-02 03:06 | User Profile
You have to space out those who live on government aid, else the crime density becames too great and hits critical mass, turning the area into no-man zones controlled by gangs.