Think you have it rough, Mr. Working Man or Mrs. Working Woman? You don’t know the half of it. Think how tough your life would be if you had to rely upon the government to support you. NPR has a heartbreaking story about life in the welfare lane that will bring you to tears.
Low-income families in Ohio say they are particularly hard-hit by the changes in the economy, according to a new poll conducted by NPR, The Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health. Two-thirds of lower-income respondents, or 66 percent, say paying for gas is a serious problem because of recent changes in the economy. Nearly half of low-income Ohioans, or 47 percent, say that getting a well-paying job or a raise in pay is also major problem.
Goodness. Almost half, yes half, of Ohioans that don’t make much money think that getting a good job or a raise is a problem. Well, skippa-de-do-da, who’d a thunk that? And 2/3’s of them say that higher gas prices are a problem. Again, who’d a thunk it? That NPR sure has uncovered a scandal, don’t ya think?
They even put together a nifty graph that proves low-income people think like this:
See there, all those yellow bars prove that low-incomers are having it tough. But NPR didn’t bother to report the positive news - check out that bottom bar - it shows that poor folks aren’t losing as much money in the stock market as the middle-class and rich folk (over $80k, whoohoo!). See, I told you there was good news there!
But quick, back to the tough times. NPR features the Nunez/Hernandez family in their quest to show us the plight of the poor and downtrodden.
Nunez, 40, has never worked and has no high school degree. She says a car accident 17 years ago left her depressed and disabled, incapable of getting a job.
Since the age of 23, this young mother has been depressed and unable to hold a job. Hmm. What about the years before the wreck? No McDonald’s, no babysitting, no…nevermind, you get my drift.
Her daughter was helping by working but the car broke down making it tough to look for work.
Hernandez received her high school diploma and has had several jobs in recent years. But now, because fewer restaurants and stores are hiring, she says she finds it hard to find a job. Even if she could, she says it’s particularly hard to imagine how she’ll keep it. She says she needs someone to give her a lift just to get to an interview. And with gas prices so high, she’s not sure she could afford to pay someone to drive her to work every day.
Where’s the old, try, try, try until you succeed spirit? You know, the American spirit? Perhaps drowned by the LBJ entitlement mentality? Hmm?
But, worse than any of those things is the fact that welfare queens in Ohio are having to cut back on groceries, making hard choices and sacrificing things that you and I take for granted! Would you want to have to suffer like this?
The rising cost of food means their money gets them about a third fewer bags of groceries — $100 used to buy about 12 bags of groceries, but now it’s more like seven or eight. So they cut back on expensive items like meat, and they don’t buy extras like ice cream anymore. Instead, they eat a lot of starches like potatoes and noodles.
No meat? No ice cream? You gotta be kidding me! That is scandalous! Forcing these women to buy fewer bags of groceries and denying them ice cream!
Scandalous, I tell ya!
Seriously, this isn’t about the girth of these two women. This is about NPR and other media outlets continuing to feed us this garbage. If the U.S. is going to turn this economy around and stop the downward social spiral, we must, somehow, whack voters upside the head and make them realize that giveaways and entitlements MUST STOP!
(h/t’s to Gateway Pundit and Moonbattery)
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You are absolutely heartless, BJ. No compassion.
At some point in our country, we stopped using leeches to bleed patients. When are we going to stop allowing lazy, uneducated, non-motivated individuals, to bleed taxpayers? These two women are so unhealthy. Their obesity is going to cost us in medical care, if it isn’t already. One can be as fat as one wants when one is paying on their own dime, but if I am helping to support them………. they better have a healthy weight. Of course, our bloated government cannot get a handle on those who are worthy of financial help. The worst thought I have is of our elderly, who have seen this country and their families through many ups and downs. They manage to live on whatever social security they get, and pensions. It’s not a lot for most foks, I am betting. They deserve help. They have earned it. These two leeches need to get a job.
Is that really a picture of the people in the article? They look drought and famine resistant to me. No ice cream? Time for a fundraiser, right?
You know, I was just going to check the news and happenings before I get breakfast this morning…
Guess I’ll be skipping breakfast!!! (Bleeeech!!!)
As I say in my gaming comunity - Bo-fricken-hooo! Quit taking MY hard earned money. I work for mine!
I guess this pretty much proves bigjolly isn’t a liberal after all.
Phil Gramm was right. Notice when the Obamas (Michele, in this case) say the same thing,
It is lauded by the media as hope and change. Gramm is chastised and driven out of the campaign.
What, no h/t for the guy who broke the story on LST with this post at 7:50 last night?
http://lonestartimes.com/2008/07/18/friday-open-comments-65/#comment-294350
BJ is suppressin my message again.
But I’ll say what I said last night:
Even if those two are set adrift on an ice floe in the Artic, they could survive on just what they have stored in the trunk—if you know what I mean. all we’d need to do is have Gren Peace protect them from the Japanese Factory ships and theyd last at least two months.
And I’m glad they’re not taking the advice being given them by the other welfare recipients in thier neighborhood:
Looking at that picture, I’m fairly certain that they haven’t spent a lot of time shooing away willing sperm donors to help them with thier financial problem of not getting enough money from taxpayers.
Did anyone catch that about the daughter needing to get a lift to get to job interviews? How the hell many people in Ohio own a crane? Was that just a play on words for the NPR reporter?
Nevermind that Ms. Nunez says her own siblings (all adults) are also unemployed and living off the taxpayer dime. Seems institutionalized blood sucking welfare grifters run in her family. Or that Ms. Nunez’s depression prevented her from getting a job (something she has never had) but didn’t prevent her from having a child. I guess we can assume that at least one time in her life she wasn’t depressed.
As to her daughter having a child for the purpose of bleeding more money from taxpayers, nothing speaks more to the attitude of those on welfare as that does. And I am sure there would really be no problem with that except fining a Donor Dad might pose some problems. Even the most irresponsible man on earth must have some pride.
No more icecream? Oh, the horror of it all.
Perhaps the daughter should think about another profession other than working in a restaurant. There is such a thing as a profit risk.
” NPR has a heartbreaking story about life in the welfare lane that will bring you to tears.”
I laughed so hard , tears came to my eyes..ahahahahhaaa
Not gonna happen.
If you get a job someplace other than in a fast food restaurant, the government quits sending you money.
Um, excuse me, but isn’t Ohio one of those corn-producing states? You know, the ones which produce corn and, as fast as it can be harvested, the government is requiring that it be converted into something we burn instead of something we eat.
Just asking.
– Ken
#5 raiderdav,
YOU TAKE THAT BACK!
#7 Sergeant,
The time stamp on the email that actually alerted me to this story was
and I didn’t even tip the guy.
Keep tryin’. (btw, I didn’t even see your comment)
#9 retire05
Heh.
Now that was funny.
BJ and Retire 05, Methinks the crane is but the first part of the equation–needs a flatbed to go with it. /unashamed sarc off/
Dang—
Suppressin me so much he don’t even read me.
Every time I look at these two women, I want to punch something! How much food does it take to maintain this much weight? BigJ do you have one of those handy charts you love to do that show chips and twinkie consumption to gain such a gross weight? OR is it moon pies and root beer?
How’s this for a solution to the welfare sucking family. The daughter walk to an interview, gets a job and walks back and forth to the job from her home; which apparently is with her mother. She gains the benefits of having a job that brings in money, loses weight by walking to work and doesn’t blow it all on transportation costs.
Yea, I know, having the government mail you a welfare check is easier than working for a living.
But, but, AW, it’s heartbreaking I tell ya!
Don’t feel bad Sergeant, I was upgrading the site last night and the only comments I read were those held in HAL’s bucket.
You keep puttin’ the message out, the werewolf will keep cheerin’.
Taint necessarily the amount of food.
I’m leaning towards the “not enough exercise” side of the equation.
Sarge I try to be a compassionate person, but these two put me over the top. Maybe it is exercise, but they have to be eating food that has very little nutrition and a ton of calories.
AW–
It’s what happens to your body when you sit around the house waiting on the gummint check to arrive for 23 years.
Another example of how welfare harms people.
Maybe they eat to self medicate their depression? If each day is the same, and there is no self worth…….. chips and dip?
BJ and all Welfare bitchers:
it’s principaled to criticize only if you have never taken the dole yourself.
(unemployment, welfare, food stamps, worker’s comp included)
same thing for Filibuster bitchin’
etc. etc.
GOT summa yall..
AF - Once again you’ve displayed your complete and total ignorance for everyone to witness. You see, unemployment and worker’s comp are both legitimate benefits which are earned by workers and paid for by employers as part of the employee’s compensation package. Trust me, employers pay a lot for unemployment insurance and for workers compensation insurance. Using your criteria, “welfare bitchers” should also be excluded if they used employer provided health insurance, life insurance, pensions, 401K plans, etc.
# fat albert
Facts in evidence are irrelevant to people like AF. They have a way of deflating the fantasies.
No ice cream?! Evidently no Slim Fast either.
Remember the poor souls after Katrina that were living in sub-standard housing with 56 inch big screens tv’s?
I make 137 grand a year and my TV is a Sanyo 26 ” from walmart.
$2,884 a month to the Gov, $600 for insurance and 3 grand to the ex-wife, (my fault of course), it cost me over 6 grand a month just to go to work every day.
And it only took 20 years to work myself up to this good life, sorry if I cant find the love for the lost causes.