[SCalGal]

youre telling me that people in the USA die from not getting enough food?????

The IT manager in the article? A good friend of mine.

I am telling you that she is going hungry so her kids can eat.

[reformedliberal]

Can you fill us in on the backstory?

[agrarianlady]

She's the single mother, right? Just curious if there is any income coming in from the father? In any situation, it is very difficult to be the sole breadwinner in the family. Two-parent families are much safer economically.

Does she have family she can move in with? If I were a single mother, I wouldn't be head of household. I think I'd try to move in with family of some kind.

But if all that does not apply to her case, well, send her resume to me and I'll pass it around here in Northern VA. My husband and all of my friends are fully employed in the IT industry here. (Hubby used to work for Worldbomb here but got a new job, thankfully).

[Monty22]

People here belittling this stuff are just whistling past the graveyard. This is a threat to everyone now. Any profressional, service, or manufacturing job can go OUT now.

And they are, quickly.

[Greenpees]

I don't suffer from a lack of sympathy for your friend. What I do suffer from is the knee jerk blaming of a policy we should all accept. Americans are the best, most ingenious, and most driven people in the world. If you tell me that we cannot compete with other nations, I say bunk! If you tell me that other nation are unfair in trade, I'll agree that improvements need to be made.

But if you tell me that at 5.6% unemployment, your friend's lack of a job is a result of Bush's policies, I will say your out of line. If you help get Kerry elected, this Freeper will be left with the impression that this whole damned board is for whiners who blame thier ills on GWB, and I may as well be on the DU.

[Peter J. Huss]

A good friend of mine. I am telling you that she is going hungry so her kids can eat. Well, if she is a good friend of yours, go over to here home once a week with a box of food! Or are you making this up?