Posted on 12/02/2010 5:15:40 PM PST by wac3rd
As metro Atlanta's temperatures grow colder, the demand for heat is, well, heating up.
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Eady said she is trying to start a nonprofit organization, “Babies Need Diapers,” that would provide diapers to low-income single mothers.
“We have assistance for food, we have assistance for clothing, but we don’t have assistance for diapers,” she said. “That’s my biggest struggle right now.”
“I saw it on the news and decided to come up here because I really need the help,” Kamara said. “You’ve got to stand in line, because it’s not going to come to you.”
I'm speechless.
Well you know it is hard work to stand in line for free heat, food, clothes, diapers and stuff.
Oh those crazy Amish, it would be so much more fair if it was delivered to the doorstep.
You heartless person. A truly caring government would cook the food and fork-feed it to you, and wipe your bottom afterwards. It's the next civil rights frontier.
“I saw it on the news and decided to come up here because I really need the help,” Kamara said. “You’ve got to stand in line, because it’s not going to come to you.”
The divide between people who think like this and those of us expected to feed, clothe, and shelter them draws wider each day, while the funds required to feed, clothe, and shelter them are about tapped out. Somebody who thinks like that should no have the right to vote; I’m sure most if not all are already “tax-exempt”.
I know, that sharp edge to me seems to reveal itself every time I read a heartwarming tale like this.:)
They really are pathetic, docile, people with no hope. I’m not labeling a particular ethnic group, but a mindset. What could this person ever contribute to a society, or even a child?
This...is LBJ’s Great Society.
You ought not talk about the UK people like that...wait, what? \s
It disturbes me to see people who don’t have to do anything except stand in line and breathe, and immigrants with questionable status building roads and bridges/ mowing lawns, service work in this Somewhat United States...
it is unnerving, but to an extent the people who are building those roads are the ones who took the jobs while other people, likely the people standing in line, are the ones who disdained taking them as ‘beneath’ them.
I have personally taken a position ‘below’ my qualifications... more than once...
Did not hurt me one bit: Made me a better Dude...00
I think a lot of Americans are going to discover the joys of getting their hands dirty.
I personally think that the Amish are the ones who are doing the best out of all of this. Self sufficiency has it’s benefits.
Diaper assistance?? My granny had triplets. She used to tell me about all the assistance she got with the diapers: her sisters came over and helped wash them by hand.
“It disturbes me to see people who don’t have to do anything except stand in line and breathe”
You forgot “eat”; our downtrodden have to deal with obesity and a diabetes epidemic (while “our food pantries are bare, causing widespread hunger”). What a freakin’ hoax...
I liked the part about Eady. I think Eady should be encouraged in her efforts to provide a non-government solution to a problem shared by many poor working mothers who may not qualify for entitlement programs. It must be pretty scary to face having your heat shut off when you have infant triplets at home. Cloth diapers are not always a solution, especially if you have to leave your children in daycare while you work or if you taxi to a laudrymat. I’d suggest she approach her pastor with her immediate need (or approach any church if she doesn’t belong to a specific one) as many churches have the ability to seek specific donations from their members with an almost immediate response. Since Eady identifies as a ‘health care worker’, I’m going to go out on a limb and assume she’s not had life handed to her, but even with three babes at hand and unsteady employment, it appears she has an untapped drive to succeed and a plan to meet a real need. I hope a mentor steps forward. Good luck to her.
Tell me about it! I went from president and sole owner of a tiny corporation that fed me well for twenty years to become a warehouse worker. Now that operation has closed down and I can’t even find a part time job. I am retired but not because I don’t want to work.
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