Posted on 08/25/2014 6:37:12 PM PDT by combat_boots
Dana Loesch on Monday shared the story of her upbringing, saying “poverty is a choice” and she knows “a thing or two” about it.
“I spent my childhood in a house headed by a single mom, and sometimes, we would have milk, gravy and biscuits twice a day to save money,” Loesch began, filling in on The Glenn Beck Program. “I borrowed notebook paper from my cousin because we were pinching pennies. We didn’t have cable. We didn’t have cell phones. We didn’t have any of the stuff that kids today have. We rented a tiny house in a small town, and I was known by my classmates’ parents as the kid from the broken home whose mom didn’t have much money.”
“But here’s something: my mom never went on welfare,” Loesch continued. “We never took entitlements. She worked three jobs, and I pretty much lived at my aunt’s house and with my grandparents. But she never once went on a single food stamp. Nothing. She made minimum wage, and we survived.”
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America suffers from spiritual poverty in great amounts. Material poverty - hardly at all.
My grandmother’s husband left her pregnant with baby #3 in 1947. So she was a “single mother”, long before the days when it was acceptable (much less fashionable!) or before anyone had heard of things like WIC, SNAP, EBT, or the like. Life was not easy for her daughters (my mother being one of them). She had to move a lot, had to farm her girls out to family so they would be fed. Things that damn near killed her, spiritually if not physically. She had little sympathy for the poor “victims” of generational poverty. Unfortunately, she never left the Democrat plantation, either, not til the day she died. But at her funeral, the pastor declared her “the true meaning of feminist” and he was right.
God bless and keep you, Grandma.
My compliments on this person for their viewpoint, but America really, really, really needs to pay attention to bringing back jobs to America.
Jobs in China don’t help America.
We need to pay attention to American jobs.
One of my aunts married too young, being pregnant by an uncle that frankly used to creep me out as a kid. I could just see that he was not a good man.
He never came to talk to us when we visited. He came to stay at our house when he was treated for Black Lung. He was, I think, cruel.
I agree.
I just don’t know how it can happen, what with the regs and treaties we have.
We’ll be like all those 3rd world places we see that have real wealth separated by true poverty—by chain link fences and security guards.
It’s practically that way now in many places.
You have to choose. Education IS the only way out for many, many people.
You past that same message even on threads where it has no relevance, don’t you? LOL.
We have to break the GOP of their “make everything in China” mindset.
The democrats aren’t really motivated by the right things, but the GOP can get (very) motivated, and do quite a lot for exactly the right reasons.
Or they can sell out, along with democrats as is currently happening. We really, really, really need to motivate the GOP to fight for jobs in America.
GOP get with it.
Bring back jobs to America.
Lead.
Jobs in China help Americans buy cheap TVs at the Wal-Mart.
Americans do not want to pay more for their stuff.
Keep the manufacturing jobs in China - until the robots take over.
The Chamber of Commerce must be divorced from the Republican Party, with their nearly completely open borders and HB-1 visa stance shut out of the debate. They keep saying we can’t find people, refusing to add “at the price we want to pay”.
The result is millions of Americans unemployed, with millions of immigrants working at low wages.
My parents had nine children and we lived in a three bedroom house. The only help he ever took was food stamps, otherwise he busted his ass for 14 hours a day so eventually he didnt have to use them. I didnt have a bed to sleep on until I joined the Army. The first time I ever had new shoes was when I got my first job at 14. Dana is correct, you cant live your life expecting others to help. Some of us were ruffians, but none of us were gangbangers or thugs. Being white we didnt have special programs or scholarships, if we wanted college we worked for it or took loans. Life aint fair, but poverty is never an excuse.
We need to get companies like Apple and Microsoft with their hundred billion dollars in off shore accounts to build their stuff here. I am all for companies making profit but its ridiculous that American companies can employ millions overseas and make an absolute killing when they can clearly afford wages and benefits here and still make a profit without raising prices. I personally believe Apple is the worst of the lot. MS quite often takes its money and buys and reinvest, gives out dividends etc while Apple saves its money and reinvests only in itself with the occasional small acquisition.
Call such children, deliberately conceived as bastards (or adopted by a single parent) and to be raised by tax dollars, "government babies" (as opposed to private babies).
Excuse me?
You must be a hoot at family gatherings.
The word “poverty” has been so bastardized by liberals it means whatever they want it to mean.
The modern democrat definition of poverty is having to buy things you want with your own money.
You seem not to have noticed that workerbee’s grandmother was married when she conceived her children. She did not conceive them deliberately outside of wedlock, and they were not what you are pleased to call “government babies.”
That's an excellent idea.
What conservative policy changes do you support?
I was raised by my beloved grandparents. When it came time for college they did not have the finances to help me. However in South Louisiana I had the opportunity to work on the drilling rigs. That paid for my college. I felt lucky to get the job on the rigs. Good men worked me hard. Most of those men had little education. They gave me the job because they wanted me to succeed. They wanted me to have the chance in life that they did not. I worked hard and if I did not work hard they would have fired me.
My life has been good because of those good men that gave me the chance to succeed.
Francis LeBlanc was my driller and boss. He was a hard man and a good man. I learned far more from him than my professors in university. I did not fail him.
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