With ever increasing regularity, lawmakers are beginning to wonder if there should not be some stipulations attached to receiving government assistance.  You think?  I’ve been saying this for over two decades.  It really chaps my ass when I see someone in line at the grocery buying “staples” (milk, bread, cheese, eggs, meat, etc.) with food stamps.  Then they buy the cigarettes and booze with a wad of twenties thick enough to choke a horse.  Then they have the groceries walked out to their car and loaded into the rear of a new Lexus or Escalade.  Oh, and while the food is being rung up they are on a new Galaxy S37 while I reboot my two year old RAZR.

If you drive a luxury car and/or talk on the latest whiz toy, you probably do not need food stamps and are bilking the system.  Doing it in front of me only adds a slap to the face.

Often times, the situation is more dire.  Food stamps or the electronic funds card is sold for hard currency in order to buy drugs.  Some in Congress wants to mandate that you are drug tested before being given “your” monthly allotment.  Naturally, the feeble among the legal minded sideliners cry out against a Fourth and Fifth Amendment violation.  Taking bodily fluids without consent violates the Fourth.  Making them doing so knowing that they are “hot” self incriminates which violates the Fifth.

What these cretins get wrong is the assumption that the taking and testing of fluids to check for drug use will then be passed off to law enforcement for prosecution.  I have not heard a single advocate for drug testing say this was their plan.  They simply want to test for the use of drugs before the person taking government assistance gets paid to do it some more.  Trust me, if they are stupid enough to do drugs, they’ll get caught on their own without a separate government agency “setting them up.”  So their argument is invalid.

This argument is just as stupid as the one the left makes about voter ID laws.  It is somehow disenfranchising minority voters by making them prove citizenship before allowing them to punch chad holes into a ballot.  Huh?  They can’t afford it, the left says.  You are singling them out, the left says.

These are the same people who, no doubt, have to show ID in order to pick up their government food stamps and other welfare payments.  If they fly anywhere, they have to show ID.  If they cash a check or make a payment by check, they have to show ID.  In many stores and bars, they have to show ID in order to buy liquor or cigarettes.  At theaters, people are often carded to prove age.  When I go to my doctor, I have to show both my Kaiser card as well as my ID.  When I use my credit card, many vendors want to see an ID to make sure I am the person whose name is embossed on the card.

Last year, Attorney General of the United States, Eric “lower the drug conviction penalties” Holder held a conference on the inconveniences minorities experienced in the voting process.  In order to gain entrance, attendees had to what?  Yes, show ID.  People have to show ID for any multitude of daily activities.  Showing ID to vote only enhances the purity of the process.  And THAT, boys and girls, is where their problem really lies.

See, minorities who are receiving hundreds to thousands per month in subsidies they didn’t earn, paid to them by people whose money it is not, tend to vote for those people paying them.  Why upset the applecart?  Lyndon Johnson is credited (wrong word?) with the quote, “I’ll have those n****** voting Democrat for the next 200 years.” His method?  Lock them into a dependency on government payouts.  And it has worked.