tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15171402.post2527530456411385639..comments2024-03-21T19:13:52.584-04:00Comments on Northview Diary: Better Late than Neverthreecolliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811004278088768813noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15171402.post-27216963361105124112011-07-07T20:09:43.830-04:002011-07-07T20:09:43.830-04:00Joated, and bring it all right along with them!
L...Joated, and bring it all right along with them!<br /><br />Linda, We don't see that too much yet, although I suppose we will.<br /><br />WW, that is a good thought!<br /><br />Linda, hear, hear! It gets discouraging sometimes.threecolliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05811004278088768813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15171402.post-45531434689792319962011-07-07T16:18:32.222-04:002011-07-07T16:18:32.222-04:00You made me think of this:
This was in the Waco Tr...You made me think of this:<br />This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX Nov 18, 2010<br /><br />Put me in charge . . .<br /><br />Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for<br />Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans,<br />blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want<br />steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.<br /><br />Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women<br />Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test<br />recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and<br />piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get<br />tats and piercings, then get a job.<br /><br />Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks?<br />You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your<br />"home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be<br />inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your<br />own place.<br /><br />In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or<br />you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of<br />trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We<br />will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo<br />and speakers and put that money toward the "common good."<br /><br />Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of<br />the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.. Before<br />you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem,"<br />consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for<br />doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.<br /><br />If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least<br />attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system<br />rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.<br /><br />AND While you are on Gov't subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is<br />correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will<br />voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov't<br />welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.<br /><br />Linda<br />http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com <br />http://deltacountyhistoricalsociety.wordpress.comLindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01077219130874294320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15171402.post-86392891531940853352011-07-07T10:50:39.673-04:002011-07-07T10:50:39.673-04:00Very interesting. On a somewhat more encouraging ...Very interesting. On a somewhat more encouraging note, I have read about a residential movement back to the city centers, due to the higher costs of driving for miles and miles.Jacqueline Donnellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13390548854179921303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15171402.post-11588228838005036232011-07-07T09:38:05.918-04:002011-07-07T09:38:05.918-04:00....and then there is the land that gets bought up.......and then there is the land that gets bought up and NOT used by acreage owners taking it out of production:(Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07183448760614051130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15171402.post-69907290293409224312011-07-07T07:02:22.696-04:002011-07-07T07:02:22.696-04:00"I was writing about the potential for the ad..."I was writing about the potential for the advent of high speed rail to change rural communities in a negative manner, what with the influx of city folks and McMansions."<br /><br />Same thing happened with the building of the Interstate Highway systems. Look at all the bedroom communities that sprang up like spokes on a wheel. Folks will accept a commute to work of approximately 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Distance is irrelevant. Make it easier (and faster) to travel and they'll just move further away "to escape it all."joatedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415726428637484056noreply@blogger.com