Deadbeats' Society

So, yeah, our area had some major storm damage due to "Hurricane Irene" over the weekend. Trees on houses, trees on cars, trees blocking the road, exposed powerlines, electricity out for days...you get the picture. Well, that picture wasn't as disastrous as what I drove upon when I arrived at work this morning, only to be unable to find a parking space for my Trailblazer (the one with a couple of large dents, the speakers that don't work unless the outside temp is extremely hot & the sun is shining very brightly, whose check engine light stays on all the time, that has to occasionally be hidden in case the repo man might happen by like a thief in the night). Not only was the county parking lot full of cars (most of which were much nicer than mine), but it was full of people....lined up like Walmart at 10p.m. on the eve of "Black Friday." Immediately I thought "what kind of free shit is the working class' tax dollars paying for Social Services to give away today?" I immediately wanted to run inside & grab a clipboard, paper, & pen and start polling those folks about their job status (I'd be willing to bet 97% don't have one) or call my friends to gather together & start protesting...but since my agency receives local government funding I had to keep my venting to the facebook level.

Sure enough as the morning progressed & I was working my butt off writing grants to attempt to secure funding for building repairs & print materials to promote the arts I find out what all the hype is about: EMERGENCY FOOD STAMPS up to $350 per recipient. (WTF) Where are the tax payers' emergency vouchers...we lost our groceries too, so now we have to stock the deadbeats refrigerators TWICE this month & replace what we lost in the storm? GIVE ME A FREAKIN' BREAK! GET A JOB PEOPLE....a J. O. B.!!!!! If you had one you wouldn't have been able to have your trifling ass in line this morning because you would have been WORKING (at your J.O.B.).

I've been working since I was 16 years old (20 years now) and have raised a son for 17 years on my own without a dime of child support OR assistance from social services. I struggle, but if I'd asked for assistance from D.S.S. I would have "made too much money," or my "car value would have been too high," my "salary would have been too high" or I "would have had a better chance if I were a minority." These excuses have been handed to some of my dearest & most hard working friends. This is BUNK.

No wonder our economy has gone to hell in a hand basket....we're giving handouts to every lazy mo' fo' in the world at the expense of the hardworking & struggling. You don't want to work...no problem, "we got you" is the message the government is sending with no true right in sending since it's OUR MONEY they're handing out!

Assistance shouldn't be for the ones who are too lazy to work, whose baby daddy don't pay child support, or who doesn't know who their baby daddy is! (And if baby daddy is dead you're getting enough of his social security for your child that you shouldn't require government assistance if you would DO YOUR PART.) It should be for working class people who just can't seem to make ends meet, sick children, parents of those sick children, & old people who worked their whole lives but can't make ends meet off of social security because the government misspent that too.

My daddy used to say "this world ain't gonna amount to nothin' but deadbeats & queers." (No offense to my gay & lesbian friends intended)...daddy had at least half of it right. STOP THE MADNESS!!!!