why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

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WRITTEN BY A 21-YEAR OLD FEMALE...

PUT ME IN CHARGE . . .

Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.

Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal legations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, or smoke, then get a job.

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.

In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the "common good.."

Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules. Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.

AND While you are on Gov't subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes, that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov't welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.

frogbs, Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link

ooh la la, frozen pizza.

clouds, Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link

WRITTEN BY A 21-YEAR OLD FEMALE...

crüt zingmaster (crüt), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link

''For you to vote would be a conflict of interest.'' is my favorite sentence of the week.

Van Horn Street, Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link

Some hellish landscape she is painting there.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link

This looks familiar...

http://i.imgur.com/p4qQLH6.jpg

going (to) hell for pleather (seandalai), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link

but hey wouldn't that violate someone's ri... oh cool you've got that covered never mind good post

ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link

here are the keys to "us gov't"

ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link

Vote #1 That 21 Year Old

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link

You will henceforth live in a special designated area and you will wear a special badge to identify your status and you will be sterilized and

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link

The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal legations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, or smoke, then get a job.

If you don't want to reproduce or if you do want to reproduce, get a job.

disgruntled punter (Je55e), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link

no cash for Ding Dongs

disgruntled punter (Je55e), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link

lmao seandalai

HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link

if you don't want a job get a job, if you hate your job get a job, if you look at me like that get a job

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link

oh wait, I misread the Norplant thing! At least her Medicaid would cover birth control.

disgruntled punter (Je55e), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link

if I already own a xbox can I apply for welfare or do I have to give it away

space is deep (mh), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link

Lotta lower-income Catholics in the Lone Star state not going to take those Norplants very well.

pplains, Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link

aw man sell my rims and my blasting stereo?

*kicks dirt*

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link

what if I use my welfare money to buy a smartcar, is that cool

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link

yes, but you have to push it everywhere, cuz if you want to get electricity get a job

Øystein, Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:30 (ten years ago) link

If you want a smartcar, get a job.

carl agatha, Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:31 (ten years ago) link

If you want an xp, get a job.

carl agatha, Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:31 (ten years ago) link

cmon man

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link

when I get a job I'm gonna vote for someone else, this lady is mean

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link

the idea that people on welfare are spending their welfare money on these goods is always the weird shit

or the fox news talking point of "how can you be POOR you have a TELEVISION and a REFRIGERATOR"

space is deep (mh), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link

Like, 200 years ago, the KING OF ENGLAND didn't have a refrigerator, man! And he was the fucking king of fucking England!

Aimless, Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link

if you do not have a job, we will give you a job. then, you must get a job.

frogbs, Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link

Job job JOB, job. Job? Job job.

clouds, Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:40 (ten years ago) link

if you have a job we will give you all the smokes and whisky

Øystein, Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link

"Gov't subsistence"

sounds about right.

scott seward, Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link

Addicted to the shindig? Stopping implants and a job.

6 Tuesdays on every Tuesday. This is called dumpy pants. (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 5 September 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link

Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.

CONSIDER THIS, BATMAN! *throws a smoke bomb, concealing economic & social realities*

your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 5 September 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link

military barracks and cleaning trash up by the roadside kinda sounds like something else than welfare...
Don't like prison? Get a job!

PRISON WARDEN CONSCIOUSNESS (4th Dimension) (Viceroy), Thursday, 5 September 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link

Amazing facts #3: between October 2008 and October 2009, approximately 8 million lazy, shiftless, good-for-nothing Americans suddenly decided they didn't want to work for a living any more and decided to live off govenment handouts instead, bcz... free Ho-Hos!!

Aimless, Thursday, 5 September 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link

Presumably the government handouts thing excludes politicians, CEO's & board members of corporations that get mad subsidies, etc.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 5 September 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link

Though having Lloyd Blankfein live in a barracks and have to keep a list of all his possessions and clean up trash on the roadside does sound good.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 5 September 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link

http://www.diamondlightlmw.com/When%20you%20by%20from%20an%20artist.jpg

― scott seward, Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:06 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Get a job, hippie!

― scott seward, Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:06 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 5 September 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link

One thing I agree with is that we shouldn't be paying for other people's mistakes. By all means, hand a bill for mass unemployment, loan defaults, and economic recession directly to the financial institutions that torpedoed the economy in the first place.

Moodles, Thursday, 5 September 2013 19:26 (ten years ago) link

"We racists have learned to not expect much from 21 year olds, especially GIRLS, but I think this one actually gets what being racist is all about"

6 Tuesdays on every Tuesday. This is called dumpy pants. (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 5 September 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link

Subject to inspections at any time? Mandatory sterilisation?

Small government?

cardamon, Thursday, 5 September 2013 20:12 (ten years ago) link

asking questions? get a job

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 September 2013 20:17 (ten years ago) link

http://givenbreath.com/2013/09/03/fyi-if-youre-a-teenage-girl/

I feel like this has shown up from 20 people on FB - mostly Jesus freaks from high school but some people who should know better.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 5 September 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/a0QRFKr.png

Now this is some next-level trolling right here.

pplains, Thursday, 5 September 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link

all the moms commenting w/"right on!!" really depresses me

crüt zingmaster (crüt), Thursday, 5 September 2013 21:23 (ten years ago) link

Elizabeth Stover Langfahl says:
September 3, 2013 at 11:39 am

I appreciate the thoughts in this post (and do agree!) but I find it a bit funny & thought-provoking that you decided to illustrate this post with pictures of your boys (?) in their swim suits. They are good-looking young guys and of course that is perfectly normal and acceptable for them to be in their swim trunks, but couldn’t a young teenage girl looking at that with friends be led to talk about them looking “hot” or whatever if they were popping up in their instagram account? (My oldest is an almost 10 year old girl who has no interest in boys, so not too sure yet how teen girls think!) I really want to know if this could be an issue for some girls (or guys) or not really.

Treeship, Thursday, 5 September 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link

If you are friends with a Hall boy on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter, then you are friends with the whole Hall family.

And now – big bummer – we have to block your posts. Because, the reason we have these (sometimes awkward) family conversations around the table is that we care about our sons, just as we know your parents care about you.

The slut shaming and sexual politics were off the charts, but these were the sentences that stood out as creepiest.
I know things have changed since I was in high school but if my parents had insisted on this level of intrusion into my private life I would have gone insane.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 5 September 2013 21:45 (ten years ago) link

it funny cause compared to the porn yr sons are watching online these facebook pics dont really sound like bannable offenses

lag∞n, Thursday, 5 September 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link

lol i guess that there are vast swaths of people - basically all the commenters in that article - who don't see this post as egregiously sexist

Treeship, Thursday, 5 September 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link

they're called "Christians"

crüt zingmaster (crüt), Thursday, 5 September 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link

and/or 'morons'

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 September 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link


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