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I am writing this from the best kept secret in Apopka (according to the Librarian and long time customer of mine) The Apopka Library Orange County Branch! Something to do while my laundry is being done :)

A little different this time. I am devoting this whole thought to how I feel public assistance (mine and your tax money) should be run.

Anyone on public assistance should be required to take a drug test. I mean everyone! From the children in the home to the parents. If you can afford to buy drugs, then you don't need my tax money. Anyone comes up hot, NO ASSISTANCE FOR YOU!

You cannot be a stay at home parent when you are on public assistance. Working people, the ones that pay these bills, must work and can't be stay at home parents...guess what... so do you! If you don't get a job within the same time limit as unemployment...that's any job, then NO ASSISTANCE FOR YOU!

If you are silly enough to get pregnant again when you are on public assistance, then it is clearly obvious that you are very irresponsible. Tax payers should not have to pay for your irresponsibility. If you get preggo again when you are already on public assistance, then you won't only receive anymore assistance, but you will LOSE ALL YOUR CURRENT ASSISTANCE! NO ASSISTANCE FOR YOU!

If you were stupid enough to sleep with an illegal, and you got pregnant, you will receive ZERO assistance! Should you card the person you sleep with? YES! the same way you take precautions to prevent std's, you can check and see if these people you are sleeping with are legal. If they aren't then NO ASSISTANCE FOR YOU!

Teenagers should receive no assistance...period. If your son gets a girl preggo, or your daughter comes home preggo, then it's your responsibility to deal with it. My tax money should not be used to raise your grandchild because your child is wild. I honestly believe that if these teens realize they won't be getting public assistance - these boys and girls will be a little more careful. This is taking the supporting your preggo teen to the next degree. I don't support teenagers having babies, and I don't want my tax money to either. If your teen gets preggo...guess what...NO ASSISTANCE FOR YOU!!

Side note. If you support your high-school daughter's pregnance, and go as far as having a baby shower and all, what message are you sending to the others in her school? I think preggo teens and their boys should be removed from school for the length of the pregnancy. Not paraded around like some kind of heroes.

If you have a man living with you while you are getting assistance and don't claim his income, then you should be put in jail. A manditory 5 year sentence. No way should someone on assistance be living better then the families working and paying taxes. Also, all future assistance should be cancelled and for the rest of their lives there will be NO ASSISTANCE FOR YOU!

I don't think there should be anything called earned income credit. A tax return means it's a return on the tax you overpaid into the system throughout the year. How can you get back more then you paid in and call it a return? It's a gosh darn handout. Another reward for people who have children they can't afford. No more "tax returns" above what you paid into the system. Why does my neighbor with 3 kids who stays home, and her husband works at Mickey D's get a $6k tax return and I get $300? They get assistance all year long and then they get what's like a bonus> That's crap.

There are more but it's a little busy in here right now and I forgot my notes :(.

In conclusion:

I feel the only people that should get public assistance are those that are working, but aren't being paid enough to survive with. Everyone should be made to work, or then it isn't assistance anymore, then it becomes support. If you give a person a fish, you feed them for a day. If you teach them to fish, you feed the for a lifetime. If their lazy butts won't get off the couch to go fishing, then it's time to cut the cord and say "your on your own kiddo"

How much money do you think we could free up by making these things happen?

Here's 1 more, just to piss you off. I have a feeling there might be to many people agreeing with me on this, so here is your curveball.

I don't want my tax money going to some parapalegic in Ohio, who is never going to give anything back in taxes, so they can live for free with all cool technological gadgets to help them communicate. There are charities and medical insurance for that. I would much rather see that money going to a senior citizen who worked their whole life, and is now trying to survive on $568 a month! Handicapped already get parking. Why should my tax money give them a check every month because they were born with a birth defect? Want to earn money? Become a patient for tests to cure these diseases, instead of sponging off everyone else!

Thanks for reading. See ya next week...for sure...probably right from this library!

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