Those Self-Reliant Amish
It seems the Ohio State Government is distraught over not being able to get their food stamp participation rate to a high enough level. Funny, I always thought fewer people signing up for help was a good thing.
Tim Taylor’s job calls for finding ways to distribute food stamps to Geauga County’s Amish. He might as well be trying to sell them cars.
The horse-and-buggy crowd philosophically opposes the support program overseen by Taylor’s agency, the Geauga Department of Job & Family Services. Accepting public assistance is verboten within the Amish culture. It simply is not done.
But Taylor is under orders to at least try to get them enrolled. The Ohio Department of Job & Family Services has asked Geauga and Holmes counties, which feature the state’s largest Amish populations, to lift dismal food-stamp participation rates.
So when faced with a lack of need, the State is out trying to push services not wanted. Your tax dollars at work…or at least those of you in Ohio.
Only a government can see a problem in self-reliance.
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