This is one of those articles that I will be referring to a whole lot in the days ahead.
Claridon Township (cleveland.com)– 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 (forbidden) 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.
Taylor and his Holmes counterpart, Dan Jackson, called the mandate a waste of tax dollars, time and resources.
In their eyes, the directive is government bureaucracy that ignores the obvious in setting an unrealistic goal.
“No matter how much we do, the Amish won’t sign up,” Taylor said. “It’s not something they endorse.” (more…)
Notice here that where there is no demand for food stamps, government is stepping up efforts to get people on the dole anyway.
I have to include more of this article.
But no matter the slant, few – if any – expect the Plain People to take part. The Amish typically shun outside support, said Steve Smith, a researcher at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania who studies the culture. The insular community finds its help from within. Neighbors assist neighbors.
Believe it or not, this mindset is not anything new to the Black community. If you study the Western migration of Blacks during the post-slavery era, Blacks had to adopt this “Neighbors assist neighbors” mindset in order to survive. This was used as a basis to establish the birth of Black entrepreneurship and the founding of many towns by Blacks during that time. With more access to capital and and estimated buying power of over $700 Billion, there is NO excuse why we cannot return to this way of thinking.
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