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Those Amish just refuse to sign up for government handouts! This cannot stand.

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.

Taylor and his Holmes counterpart, Dan Jackson, called the mandate a waste of tax dollars, time and resources.

You think? America has fallen a long way since its creation, as government is now begging citizens to be less self-reliant and more dependent on big brother. If the founders were alive today, they’d kill themselves. Then roll over in their graves.

Hat tip: Florida Cracker