Posted on 07/21/2008 7:33:21 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
That's it. NPR has declared Ohio a disaster area. Things are so bad. NPR gravely warns, that folks in the Buckeye state can't even afford to buy meat for their dinner tables anymore. It's the end of civilization as we know it. Doom and gloom. Oh the humanity. It's the end of the world as we know it... at least for one Ohio family that NPR found to act as stand in for the rest of the state. To NPR all of Ohio is the Nunez family. And what is NPR' solution? Government aid, of course.
In a segment of All Things Considered (well, all things but common sense, anyway), NPR gives us Gloria Nunez whose family, we are told, was "built on cars." NPR gives us all sorts of sobbing, rending of clothes, wearing of sackcloth and gnashing of teeth for the Nunez', of course. But even NPR can't hide some of the glaring problems that Gloria and her family have surely brought upon themselves.
In fact, her story sounds like the scene in the old Blues Brothers movie where John Belushi is on his knees pleading with Carrie Fischer to forgive him. There was a flood, he whined, locusts came, it was the end of the world, it REALLY wasn't his fault, he swore to God. Similarly we get the tale that Gloria Nunez' car broke down, she can't find a job, she had a car accident that left her "depressed and disabled, incapable of getting a job." She is now somehow forced to live on a "$637 Social Security check and $102 in food stamps." Naturally, none of it is her fault. All the seeds for the common welfare tale are there.
'I Just Can't Get A Job'...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Oh, the huge manatees are back.
Yet she has heroically managed to accumulate approximately 250 more pounds of body weight than necessary.
What an accomplishment.
This article has been posted way too many times. Do we have a secret obsession with largness? Single mother, two kids, unemployed siblings, never worked. As I said before, welfare is the family business. Just a sad story about folks living off the fat of the land.
Naw but when an article's main point seems to be about two 400 pound people going hungry it is.
Crap... I forgot I posted it before!
My mistake.
HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YOU DON”T EAT YOUR MEAT???
WOW is right. Un-freakin-believeable. Sufferin’ Cats even!
Plus they're kicking out greater amounts of BTU's into the atmosphere and hence more global warming!
Mizz Nunez could stand to eat nothing for 6 months and still be a whale.
Neoliberal Propaganda Radio would do that?
An instant FR classic.
LOL. A picture of starvation in the US.
I’m from Ohio...this is news to me! haha
We bought some meat just the other night actually...
hmm...
In the future please match the interviewees you use with the perception you are trying to create. For example, in a report on starvation please use victims who look like they have actually missed one of their six daily meals during the past ten years. Similarly, do not base stories about the need for nationalized health care with people who insist on swimming with sharks with AIDS or the plight of migratory birds on Canada geese which are stacked up by the tens of billions across the nation.
A) Ted STRICKLAND's fault
B) George Bush's Fault
C) A bunch of BS by the SOCIALISTIC NPR? My answer - C
Ladies and Gentlemen: The 50sDad Welfare Plan:
As of today, your government issued food card will not work on anything that is processed in any way. You may buy fresh vegetables, plain healthy whole-wheat bread, cheese, eggs, milk, and lean hamburger. No longer will Popsicles, any sugared cereal, dessert of any kind, donuts, ice cream, snack foods, soda, or any kind of food deemed "fun". Since some of you must apparently be treated like children, no dessert until you finish your vegetables. From now on snack foods are the reward for holding down a job. If you kids want to know why other children get chips and Twinkies in their lunchbox, tell them it is because you can't seem to maintain any kind of employment and must live off the work of others.
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