Posted on 07/18/2008 11:44:51 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach
by Yuki Noguchi
All Things Considered, July 17, 2008 · A generation ago, the livelihood of Gloria Nunez's family was built on cars.
Her father worked at General Motors for 45 years before retiring. Her mother taught driver's education. Nunez and her six siblings grew up middle class.
Things have changed considerably for this Ohio family.
Nunez's van broke down last fall. Now, her 19-year-old daughter has no reliable transportation out of their subsidized housing complex in Fostoria, 40 miles south of Toledo, to look for a job.
Nunez and most of her siblings and their spouses are unemployed and rely on government assistance and food stamps. Some have part-time jobs, but working is made more difficult with no car or public transportation.
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The old man built cars for 45 years but they cant fix the Van...
If your meat’s out of reach, it was time to go on a diet anyway.
Sorry,..all of OUR Poor People are FAT!
It must have screamed, "NO MAS!"
There really aren't many vehicles that could carry both of those women at the same time.
[People tell Nunez her daughter could get more money in public assistance if she had a child. “A lot of people have told me, ‘Why don’t your daughter have a kid?’” ]
Losers.
How do people live like this?
“Thar she blows!”
I was a meat cutter in different supermarkets for about 15 years. I could always tell who the welfare/food stamp bums were. All fat slobs!
While the rest of the US starves to death in the coming apocalypse these two sisters will survive and become the ruling class.
What’s going to happen to them? Ask T. Boone Pickens and the Democrats on the Hill. They seem to have the energy market sown up. Maybe their heating bill will go up when Pickens starts diverting natural gas to automobile use - all subsidized by the U.S. government.
There's always Soylent Green...
Why does it never occur to folks to leave the sh*tholes they’re living in to go find jobs elsewhere?
There is a problem with this solution. Finding a man willing to impregnate her would appear to be far more difficult than finding a job
Based on the picture, because there ain't enough beer in Milwaulkee to make those goggles.
“People tell Nunez her daughter could get more money in public assistance if she had a child.
“A lot of people have told me, ‘Why don’t your daughter have a kid?’”
They both reject that as a plan.
“I’m trying to get a job,” Hernandez says. “I just can’t get a job.”
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I can venture a guess as to why she isn’t able to get pregnant...
Dayum!!!
Macaroni and cheese, probably. Cheap. Tastes good. Lots of calories. There is even a “macaroni and cheese index”: The economy is tanking the purchase of macaroni and cheese goes up.
One of the problems of being poor is that you don’t buy good food like fruits and veggies. You buy processed stuff like mac ‘n cheese.
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