Posted on 09/26/2012 10:02:15 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
On a recent evening, a hip-looking young woman was sorting through a stack of crates outside a fruit and vegetable store here in the working-class neighborhood of Vallecas as it shut down for the night.
At first glance, she looked as if she might be a store employee. But no. The young woman was looking through the day’s trash for her next meal. Already, she had found a dozen aging potatoes she deemed edible and loaded them onto a luggage cart parked nearby.
“When you don’t have enough money,” she said, declining to give her name, “this is what there is.”
The woman, 33, said that she had once worked at the post office but that her unemployment benefits had run out and she was living now on 400 euros a month, about $520. She was squatting with some friends in a building that still had water and electricity, while collecting “a little of everything” from the garbage after stores closed and the streets were dark and quiet.
Such survival tactics are becoming increasingly commonplace here, with an unemployment rate over 50 percent among young people and more and more households having adults without jobs. So pervasive is the problem of scavenging that one Spanish city has resorted to installing locks on supermarket trash bins as a public health precaution.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
Spain was on a spending spree and now unfinished airports and planned communities that have never had a single person use them sit rotting down, the investors money gone forever.
Bad decisions have bad consequences.
Would anyone miss a few socialists in a land of so many unemployed? :-D
Wow!
What makes you thing that a man wouldn't? They are called 'Housekeepers'. When I want one I hire one. There have been several times that I've hired Housekeepers when I really didn't need or want one because of folks (male or female) were down on their luck and needed help.
Room and board for cooking, cleaning, shopping, painting, yardwork, etc. This is how the world turns Monkey Face.
PapaBear's suggestion right was on target IMO. I saw nothing sexual or sexist about it.
Shame on you for suggesting that.
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Agreed. Disgusting.
Thank you, Monkey Face.
Good advice for young women.
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Marriage is good advice for young women; prostitution is not good advice.
I'm willing to bet that your wife of thirty years been brainwashed into believing you are a wonderful husband and provider, and I'm wondering how she will fare when you die? Two bits says she will know nothing of what you are leaving her to deal with because you Are The Boss.
When you suggest that a totally strange woman sell herself for food and shelter, you are saying, in effect, that should something happen to you, your wife should do the same. Think about it.
You need an education in being a single mother. Your comments are ridiculous beyond believing.
Do not try to ‘splain life to me, Lucy. Been there, done that, and never sold my body in the process, in any way, shape or form.
Papa bear was so far off the mark as to be idiotic. If you agree, then you need to be cast adrift into the Sea of Abusive Men. If you are one, then some day, you will know what it means to be abused.
So who mentioned prostitution?
No thanks necessary. Guys like that are a dime a dozen. I see them every day on Jerry Springer, Maury, and Steve Wilkos (only because I can’t afford the upper channels!) and none of them impress me. The ones I’ve met in real life? Well, the worst one came up to me with his big belt buckle and said, “Hey, heifer! Let’s go breed!”
See post # 12.
We just started QE-Infinite, meaning not enough suckers.
(1) Find somebody who has money, food and/or shelter.
(2) Find out something that you can do that would please that person enough that he provides you with some.
(3) Do what’s needed.
(4) On the side, you may look for somebody who will provide you with better, at less effort from you.
Saw the same thing on the OWS recruiting pamphlets.
From the comments at the article -
jeffreyglenn | Sep 25, 2012 01:41 PM ET
Here's what I say: There are not enough guns, bullets, armed security guards, anti-computer hacking specialists, etc to keep the rich people safe from the angry hordes of poor starving disenfranchised people who will be coming to seize their property if they are so selfish and heartless that they can't deal with a 4.6% increase on incremental income above $250,000/year. May you burn in Hell, you greedy sociopathic pigs!
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SDedalus | Sep 25, 2012 03:01 PM ET
"jeffreyglenn." Here, Here! Mr. Romney would refer to the people looking for food in the garbage as "the takers," while Romney's group of 15%-tax paying, Cayman Island banking profiteers are "the makers." That is backwards, Mr. Romney, but were glad you let us know where your real symnpathies lie: with the lazy rentier class. The CNBC group seem to regard the main question as, "How do we keep the money from the poor now that we've stolen it fair and square?" Look, if you are just a rentier (i.e., earning money off investing your money) you are not a maker but a taker. The people that make things are the artists--musicians, performers, painters, architects, the artisans--cabinet makers, auto mechanics, plumbers, the engineers, and the people that grow things (not the corporate government-milking farms). The upside down mindset fostered by the rentiers needs to come to an end. This will only happen when we honor work and dishonor moneygrubbing.
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TRUTHsquad | Sep 25, 2012 03:16 PM ET
2nd, if there was an OUNCE of Truth to this article then Euro would be less than US Dollar.
But instead Euro has gained a MIGHTY, KINGLY, LORDLY, MANLY 30% vs US Dollar since its introduction in year 2000 at 1 to 1 to US Dollar.
So How much longer does Euro have to be MUCH MORE VALUABLE than US Dollar for Americans to realize that "Euro debt crisis" is non-sense and that US is suffering from Republican lunatics, HOAX Democrats and above all a right-wing lying Media/Cabal and that is why Europeans have fundamental advantages over US, such as:
1- All Europeans, like Israel the beloved Nation of right-wing Media/Cabal, operate health care on universal socialized basis. So while all Europeans have health care they spend a small fraction, about 50% LESS, than what US spends on health care, which means LESS Taxes and/or Debt in this very important regard.
2- European Governments do not waste the people's money on Unnecessary Wars (Iraq War, etc.) or on a Gargantuan Military
More; http://www.realnewspost.com/sa.php?a=39732
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BleenGloob | Sep 25, 2012 05:02 PM ET
This is what the US would look like under the Ryan/Romney ticket. It's what Krudlow and Dump and Smelli Santelli want along with the cast of losers at CNBC. The teebaggerz relish in this idea....it suits there racist ideals. The limpdicks and orallys of the world along with their faux nooze breathern are disgusting vile creatins. It is disgusting to think that this country is filled with these nasty old white people. The move towards a plutocracy by the right-wing of this country is very regressive. They wish to return to the era of coal, oil and stockyard towns of years gone by, where everything is owned by the wealthy and everyone else becomes an indentured servant and trapped by poverty. Healthcare, education, adequate food and clothing and housing are only available to the wealthy which is the endgame of the republican party.
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Ok, this comment is just funny -
StubbornFacts | Sep 25, 2012 07:07 PM ET
You didn't build that trash meal.
Somebody else made that happen.
“Think that ought’a work for boys, too?”
Nope.
Historically, it has only worked one way, with but very few exceptions.
Sorry. That’s one of the realities of life that no one is going to change.
If not, she could always let him molest her underage children. Or agree to let him have multiple 'wives'.
There will be Blood!
See?
I once knew of a donut shop that would throw all the day-olds out in one big clear bag at a specific time of day and we kind of knew the owner. In other words they were making sure it would still be edible. There were only a couple of times we were there for it when times were tough.
We didn’t make a habit of it or anything though.
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