Texas has only Mississippi to thank for not being ranked at the bottom of just about everything that is nasty, dirty and horrible. Especially regarding education, poverty, homelessness and being kind or helpful to the least fortunate. Though Texans do win in the gunthing hands down! Oops…Hands up!
We have a big story here in Houston which has been center stage for a few months now. Long lines to get food stamps with about a three month wait for the food. Even with a more than the usual spattering of White people in line seems to make little difference to anyone at all.
Being on the Texas Diet myself of late I know the game. Drink large amounts of water when the hunger pains hit and later in the day mix it with copious amounts of Jack or Beam to help sleep through those long three months. Of course this is hard to explain to children who are not of drinking age yet, but hey, they are also not of voting age either so who gives a rat’s ass?
Though you can see this kind of person all over the forums and comments on the Internet, talk radio or Fox News, it is ab it unusual to find it in one of the top newspapers in the nation. This is not only the great Texas "unsaid" but also the very basis of Republican and Libertarian ideology. Trying to find any inkling, smidgen, or nanonit of kindness or compassion to anyone or anything other than themselves borders upon the impossible:
No free lunch
Once again the Chronicle Editorial Board has literally gone off the deep end in its criticism of our state government leaders because the latter refuse to spend more of our tax dollars to shovel out buckets of food stamps. The board members somehow believe that food stamps are a constitutional right for every Tom, Dick and Harry who shows up at the door of a state Health & Human Services Commission office. The clincher is the comment in the editorial that "the program is 100 percent federally funded." Gee, where do the board members think federal funds come from? Did they forget that we, the citizens, pay the taxes that provide those federal funds and therefore the food stamp program is not free to anyone? This type of illogical thinking by the Chronicle is a typical example of the left-wing lunacy that has caused us, as a nation, to have so many social problems over the last 40 years. You people at the Chronicle need to wake up to the fact that there is no free lunch. No free lunch
Once again the Chronicle Editorial Board has literally gone off the deep end in its criticism of our state government leaders because the latter refuse to spend more of our tax dollars to shovel out buckets of food stamps. The board members somehow believe that food stamps are a constitutional right for every Tom, Dick and Harry who shows up at the door of a state Health & Human Services Commission office. The clincher is the comment in the editorial that "the program is 100 percent federally funded." Gee, where do the board members think federal funds come from? Did they forget that we, the citizens, pay the taxes that provide those federal funds and therefore the food stamp program is not free to anyone? This type of illogical thinking by the Chronicle is a typical example of the left-wing lunacy that has caused us, as a nation, to have so many social problems over the last 40 years. You people at the Chronicle need to wake up to the fact that there is no free lunch. Eric Johnson, Houston