NPR: For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach

NPR.org ^ | 7-19-08 | Yuki Noguchi

[perez24]

My point, which I didn’t make very well, is that she grew up in a family with a work ethic that does not seem to have passed down.

I’m sure there are good reasons for her to be in her situation, but we probably can’t blame the parents.

[PGR88]

Typical NPR / Lib elitism

They set up the story of the sad-sack family (in the mid-west, of course) too dumb, fat, etc... to help themselves, and blame the typical boogey-men of bad economy, free-markets, etc...

Then NPR establish’s their holier-than-though credentials by lamenting the fact these poor bastards beneath us who can’t be helped, but imply only IF ONLY we had Obama, no war, open-borders, fill-in-the-blank-for-their-cause-of-the-day.

[television is just wrong]

OMG, they are obese

[Dr.Deth]

Looks to me like it's not nearly far enough out of reach.

[popdonnelly]

“Nunez and most of her siblings and their spouses are unemployed”

Dad sure taught them the value of work. Seems like times have been tough for quite awhile.

[Nea Wood]

Boo hoo. My heart bleeds...NOT.

[go-dubya-04]

Here was my email to NPR:
“I read the “All Liberal Things Considered” article about the Nunez family. (In case you forgot, that would be the one with the 40-year old mother who never finished high school and has NEVER worked. She and her daughter can’t quite figure out why they aren’t “hiring material”.) You have the audacity to use these two layabouts as a sign of “how bad” things are in the economy?! That is a new low even for NPR. I would love to be presented with the hard-luck stories you presented in the Fall of 2000, when we were actually IN A RECESSION and the unemployment rate was higher than today. Oh, I almost forgot; Bill Clinton was in office and you were busy trying to get Al Gore elected, so there was a blackout on negative economic news.
Seriously, I would love for you to show me how many negative economic articles you wrote while we were mired in that recession compared to the number you have told/written over the last six months. I am sure that I will not be hearing back from you because this would make you face the truth about your pathetic sanctimony and political bias.
Disrespectfully Yours,

[TigersEye]

“Helllllp! We have free housing amd free food but we got no free transportation. We’re just not subsidized enough.”

[FightThePower!]

Those fat nasty women could skip a few meals.

[PeteB570]

I've seen Titanic a couple of times, B&W and color versions.

I'm waiting for Hollywierd to rewrite the ending and have the ship miss the iceberg.

[TornadoAlley3]

B U M P

[atomic conspiracy]

Holy guacamole!! Try to imagine how fat they’d be if they could afford food.

[xDGx]

Obama will bring them hope and lard.

[Wuli]

Listen up Conservatives;

understand that the theme is that the federal government has failed the states

but, in fact

it is liberal ideas sung by state politicians that have failed many states and to see that one only need look to where local and state economies are doing well and where they are not.

Now Obama wants to bring more failed liberal ideas from the states to the federal level.

McCain needs to campaign on the facts - Obama will not save anyone, he will simply repeat the policies that have failed the states.

McCain needs to campaign on the facts - the states can rescue themselves by throwing out the liberal politicians that have failed them; they don’t need federal help, they need self-help and that starts by getting rid of tax-and-spend politicians at the state level.

[Macaw]