Recently, I received an email which raised my hackles. The information in the email concerned an application for food stamps. So, what’s he big deal? It was written in Arabic! In the past few months, I was told that my regular supplier of test strips for my glucose monitor was no longer authorized to supply my diabetic testing materials.  I would have to use another supplier that was approved. When my meter arrived, it had the option to choose a language, one of which was Arabic. I will probably need to increase my blood pressure medication if this continues.

My grandparents, both maternal and paternal, were emigrants. They came to America, as many before them, barely able to speak the English language. There were no programs for providing government benefits and no instructions written in their native tongue. They were happy to be free.  They did not expect a handout!  There is no shame in being poor. In fact, having been poor gives you an appreciation of whatever blessings you receive.

Somehow, politicians have given poverty a status which equals entitlement. They concoct more and more entitlements until the “so called” poor are actually receiving more for free than the hard working Americans are earning. And those hard working Americans are paying  burdensome taxes so that the politicians can devise another entitlement. So, who is helped in this process? Certainly not the poor, their numbers have increased. Not the taxpayers; they continue to have to pay more and more of their earnings and are not informed about where their tax dollars are being spent. Truly, the politicians are helping themselves; helping themselves to re-election while pretending to care. They do not care about the ordinary person; if they did, they would be spending their own money and time. Instead they keep their pockets full while dipping into the pockets of taxpayers.

Programs designed to help people should be presented in English. To assign languages other than English creates an attitude of separation from our values. It creates a division within our country that is unhealthy. If you want to take advantage of America’s opportunities, then you should learn the language. Don’t insult our generosity.

I think there are two reasons that I am so furious about the application written in Arabic. That particular culture stands for everything that America is against. For starters, we believe in freedom of religion, they kill those who they consider non-believers of their religion; we promote equality for women while they deny rights and denigrate their women; I could go on but one thing that makes you want to step away from it all is their dedicated campaign for jihad, a war against all who are not Muslim.

The more egregious reason for my vexation is the fact that American tax dollars are funding the support of those who openly vow to kill us.

After the Boston Marathon bombing, it was revealed that the bombers had entered our country under the guise of “political asylum” and had been afforded many of the entitlements provided by our American tax dollars. How many more of them are we providing for? And when will these politicians stop? After all, In the words of Sir Thomas Browne, “Charity begins at home”.