fessing up. guilty of a T.U.I.

yes. that's right. i did it. i was typing under the influence. nyquil.



lesson learned: i'll never do it again. i promise.

omg. so i NEVER take medicine when i'm sick. i hate how it makes me feel. but THIS TIME, this time was different. i just had to. and it helped so much that i have taken it for a couple days in a row now. who knew drugs could be so helpful?

but one SHOULD NOT respond passionately in written form while under the influence. and that's exactly what i did. (sorry!).

i got this email. and i had some strong thoughts. and so i replied. only, in my nyquil induced haze, it appears i have hit the reply to ALL button.

since it's already out there to some extent i'm just going to completely out myself. because even now, after the nyquil has worn off, i still think the same things. i just would not have normally sent it out there to everyone on the list.

agree with me. disagree with me. it's how i feel. and right now (thanks to the nyquil), i'm feeling lots better. and now i want a ho-ho. hee hee.

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the above referenced email:

Young Texas girl figures it out.
This was written by a 21 yrs. old female who gets it. It's her future she’s worried about and this is how she feels about the social welfare big government state that she’s being forced to live in!
These solutions are just common sense in her opinion. This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX Nov 18, 2010

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 ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, 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.


Now, if you have the guts - PASS IT ON...

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here are some thoughts from this 45 year old ex-texan who DOESN'T have it all figured out...and doesn't pretend to :)

i GET the premise of this...i DO.

but i think it's waaaaaay too easy to just put everyone into categories...put them in boxes.

not EVERYONE who is receiving government help is lazy...or tattooed...or pierced...or having baby after baby.

even though i'm not currently receiving financial aid from the government, i have in the past. and it wasn't because of "bad choices," it was because of bad circumstances :(

if the government tried to tell me what i could and couldn't do during that time period of my life (including taking away my right to vote?????) i just can't even imagine...

if you walk in my house right now, you would NOT be able to tell that we are financially struggling...my kids have an xbox. it was a gift from bobby's mom. i have gorgeous family photos all over the walls. my best friend is a professional photographer who gifts them to me. is it fair to judge me for that?

is it fair to judge someone who has tattoos all over their body? how do we know they don't do it themselves? or have a best friend who does it for them? how do we know that the person in line ahead of us with the food stamps who is buying ho-hos isn't buying them for their child who is having a birthday and all they asked for is ho-hos?

i realize i'm stretching a bit :) LOL. but my POINT is that you can't always tell...i personally don't think it's so black and white.

maybe because i've been there. maybe because this feels personal to me.

last thought: if they'd sterilized me because i had carson on medicaid (because bobby was laid off weeks before september 11 and couldn't find work) sweet sweet hudson would not exist?

and that thought makes me sad.

the people who take advantage of the system are WRONG. they need Jesus. but there are people who TRULY DO NEED the system...and while some of the rules need to change & there SHOULD be some accountability in place, i don't think it's fair to generalize everyone and go to such extremes as this young girl in texas thinks we should.

she should be careful...at 21 it's easy to think that nothing bad will ever happen to you...she may someday find herself in a place where she wishes there were some compassion for her.