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October 19, 2006
Bureaucrats Try to Cram Food Stamps Down Amish Throats
What's a welfare state to do when people don't want government handouts? That's the problem faced in Ohio's Geauga and Holmes counties, where the Amish prefer voluntary charity to coercive wealth redistribution. As a result, bureaucrats are falling short of their target food-stamp participation rates.
Those responsible for recruiting Amish for the food-stamp roll consider it a waste of time and money. Jeanne Carroll of the Orwellian Office of Family Stability is considering their request to readjust participation goals. In the meantime, both counties are planning advertising campaigns in an attempt to hook the Amish on government assistance. Hopefully these won't place too much emphasis on television ads.
On a tip from Metalgarth.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 19, 2006 4:30 PM
Comments
This is hilarious.
People decide to stand firm and choose to go it alone without the assistance of the state (which happens to be what America is all about), and the state decides to further the sales pitch.
When will governments realize that it's ultimately going to cost more to sell these programs to people who will never participate than it costs to support the fools who do participate?
Just another illustration of the basic foolishness that is socialism.
RWR
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Posted by: RightWingRocker at October 19, 2006 9:28 PM
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Posted by: V the K at October 20, 2006 5:33 AM
What is scary is that eventually the State may force the Amish on Food Stamps, and threaten to take their children if they aren't using them... all in the name "for the sake of the Children". (or more appropriately "Forsake the Children")
Posted by: Metalgarth at October 20, 2006 9:03 AM
Great story. Nice to know that pride is not extinct.
Posted by: Bird Dog at October 21, 2006 11:43 AM
