The Producer. The Moocher. The Looter.

Oh Lawds! I has a Blackberry and a free meal!

In this country, we can all be put into one of three categories in terms of one’s personal contribution. You’re either a producer, a looter, or a moocher. Let us define the terms and let you figure out where you stand. For the record, I cannot claim the producer/moocher/looter notion. I will claim the solution for said problems, however.

The Producer.

The Producer is an individual who is employed, if both able and willing. Times are tough for many that are out of work. The producer may be out of work, but is actively seeking employment and not enjoying a minute of not earning a living. The producer’s children have never taken a bite of a free breakfast or lunch at school without the producer doing everything they could to quickly end the embarrassment and personal shame for having done so. They have never had their child’s daycare subsidized. They have never gone on food stamps with the intention of it becoming a lifestyle. They probably decided to get a second/third job or sold off things they don’t need to survive. The producer’s numbers are dwindling.

The Moocher.

The moocher is the person in front of you at the grocery store with expensive footwear and/or a designer purse trying to refinance an Escalade. They feel like free meals for their *many* children at school is a birthright. They work sparingly, if at all. If subsidized housing is available, they’re in it. Nothing is their fault if you ask them. They might have tried to go to college, but it won’t be on their dime. The world owes them a living because they simply cannot help themselves without having to suffer the indignity of missing Maury Povich.

The Looter.

The looter is the smallest portion of the three, but is the most important piece of this puzzle as far as the process being able to continue. Quite simply, the looter is the elected and/or appointed officials in our government who facilitate the looting of the producer’s wages and give them to the moocher. We can quibble about what percentage of this and that goes to what government entity, but the fact is people that refuse to work and stop having children in the name of personal responsibility have no reason to stop so long as the looter continues to reward said behaviors.

My solution? Weighted disenfranchisement.

What?

If you were a moocher and knew which politicians/looters support continued looting from the producers, you would vote for the looters who could give you biggest slice of the producer’s pie. In other words, you would effectively vote yourself a pay raise.

Less work + More money = Helluva deal!

Here’s how we could put a stop the bleeding. We need to diminish the amount each moocher’s vote counts. The perfect vote would equal 1.0 votes. This is a person who works and pays taxes (on time) and does not milk the government/producer of entitlements. I’m not talking about standard things like street lights, national defense and city parks. Everyone enjoys those perks.

Everyone starts with 1.0 votes and is subject to losing a percentage of their vote.

Here’s a few suggestions…

If you are on either food stamps, WIC, subsidized daycare, subsidized housing, welfare, dependent health/dental care for more than 20% of a year’s time, then your vote goes to 0.5%.

For every child you have beyond one, deduct an additional 0.1%. This does not apply solely to the (mostly) women stuck raising these children, if it has been determined you have fathered any children in said situation(s), you will receive an equal penalty to that of your former partner no matter how many children they have. However, if you are financially and morally capable (clean rap sheet), you will have the right to gain custody away from the irresponsible party who has your child. After all, ovaries provide no guarantee of superior parenting abilities.

There are exceptions… If you are a legal guardian of a child/children you did not produce and have been charged with their care due to you being a responsible individual, you would be exempt from penalty. Hey, it ain’t your fault your a good person. I would also provide full to partial exceptions to those disabled by non-preventable disease and/or conditions. Example: breast cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, leukemia. Retired individuals would be exempted based on if they worked or were part of a household that didn’t abuse the entitlement system prior to reaching retirement age.

We’ve got to do something to obstruct the cycle of dependency in this country. We’re on a slippery slope, and if we don’t get some tread under our feet soon, we’re gonna slide to a place from which we may never be able to get our asses unstuck. Let’s put a HUGE dent in the looter’s ability to provide a payroll to the moochers.

I hope that somewhere, Atlas is shrugging in agreement.

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