Stage 8... My critique on a mysterious untitled post...

I am knocking out the stage 8 blog a bit early because I read and liked Holly's mysteriously untitled stage seven post.  Her blog is "Looking farther than Red and Blue" and I assume she just forgot to put a catchy title on it, which has little impact unless you want to link just the post.  So if I am to critique something it would have to be that minor mechanics issue.

About the content, I feel she brings up a very good issue that should be a concern to just about everyone.  Food stamps and welfare are programs "designed" to help those in need make it threw tough times.  Holly give good statistical information that depicts the growing percentage of recipients getting food stamps in El Paso.  The numbers are a bit alarming since we (the working tax payers) are having to pay the bill.  Working class people avoid going out to eat at restaurants to save money, yet they are buying lobster, soda, and TV dinners for 25% of the the people in their community?  That is ridiculous!  I think Holly also does a good job pointing out the failing systems that are paid for and are supposed to benefit the working Americans like Social Security.  The Economy is like a ship, if you take on more water than you can bail out, you will eventually sink and die.  Well... the liberals in Washington that want to keep throwing vast sums of money at dead-end programs have currently put us in a situation where we are taking on more and more water and have less and less people to bail.  We are going to start sinking one of these days unless people in the important positions grow some attachments and cut the cord on generational free loaders!  (Holly's article has done a good job getting me wound up).

Holly also closes her post with a spectacular quote by Benjamin Franklin, which somehow fits her article perfectly even though it was written 200+ years ago.  I also agree with Mr. Franklin... you buy a man a fish, some Doritos, a few T-bones, and cable TV and he will throw a BBQ for his friends (then say he needs more more more).  Teach a man to fish and get off his lazy ass and earn his own living, and he will tell his friends to bring over their own food and get a digital converter box!  How is this a hard concept?  What happened to Darwin?  Sink or swim... throw someone into the water you will see how fast they get to shore.


Signing off,
Dan-O