If you want to make it in this state you are clearly better off going on welfare.
Published 20:16, May the 31st, 2009
Good teens get the shaft
Well, they only need to meet a few simple requirements if they want to tap into the $1.3 million in federal economic stimulus monies — your money, if you pay taxes — that the Obama administration funneled into Massachusetts to put teenagers to work.
One requirement: Lack a basic skill. That’s right. The Obama administration actually wants to employ teens who do not possess a “basic skill.” Terrific. They apparently can’t push a broom; sweep a floor; write a letter; sign their name. I’m wondering if they can brush their teeth or comb their hair.
For teens who do have a skill — like being good at having unprotected sex — there is another category for them. Pregnant teens or single parents are eligible, too.
If teens don’t want to get knocked up to get a summer job using the Obama administration standards, anyone between the ages of 14 and 24 (that’s right — 24) can get locked up and apply. Criminal offenders are also eligible.
Then there are the teenager illegal immigrants; or anyone who speaks “English as a second language.” And if your parents are on welfare, no worries, the $8 income from the teenager employed will not affect food stamp payments; the free car for those on public assistance programs; or free heat and AC.
Who is not eligible to apply? Well, that would be the good kid with perfect attendance and straight As. You know, the kids who aren’t “court involved,” the PC word used by liberals to describe teen thugs.
I don’t have a problem with helping wayward teens get a leg up in life. Lord knows I certainly gave my parents and high school administrators some headaches as a teenager.
The problem is that every cent of the $1.3 million in taxpayer stimulus monies aimed at helping teens is only helping the teenage children of people who don’t pay taxes. Once again the blue collar and middle class family is screwed.