Posted on 07/18/2008 11:44:51 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach
by Yuki Noguchi
All Things Considered, July 17, 2008 · A generation ago, the livelihood of Gloria Nunez's family was built on cars.
Her father worked at General Motors for 45 years before retiring. Her mother taught driver's education. Nunez and her six siblings grew up middle class.
Things have changed considerably for this Ohio family.
Nunez's van broke down last fall. Now, her 19-year-old daughter has no reliable transportation out of their subsidized housing complex in Fostoria, 40 miles south of Toledo, to look for a job.
Nunez and most of her siblings and their spouses are unemployed and rely on government assistance and food stamps. Some have part-time jobs, but working is made more difficult with no car or public transportation.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
I’ve read that ‘Female’(and Lemonjello) newborn baby name in more urban legend debunking than I can shake a stick at!
I don’t think the supermarkets can or should, but I think that taking food budgeting, healthy lowcost cooking, and meal planning and preparation should be a requirement before getting foodstamps. You shouldn’t be eligible until you have a better idea of how to use them.
His ministry is a true blessing and I am very glad that God brought him into my life. I will be calling him on a Friday next July for the big scream! It will be one of the happiest days of my life.
Same here. I double checked the URL to make sure it wasn’t scrappleface.
Your tax dollars at work!
And a tattoo is not exactly cheap. Check out the mother's nice earrings and sunglasses also.
Yuki Noguchi
You can contact Yuki Noguchi (person who wrote this crap) at NPR here:
Noguchi covers technology and has been with The Washington Post since 1999
Well, Paved Paradise, since your friend seems to have a problem with eating, let’s enact a law making it illegal for restuarants to serve obese people. Hey, it worked in our state for smoking, and we have to be consistent.
Rush’s take on it:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_072408/content/01125109.member.html
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RUSH: I didn’t mention this when this happened, folks, and many of you are going to think that this is harsh and callous. There was an NPR story out of Ohio about a poor family that because of the status of the U.S. economy, could no longer afford to eat meat. Did you see that story? They could not. It was a mother and daughter. You couldn’t tell which was which in the picture. Honest to God, folks, you could not tell which was which. This tag team had 800 pounds. That was not mentioned anywhere in the story, but the picture, you couldn’t miss this. So we have NPR dutifully reporting the squalid conditions, the poverty-level conditions. These poor Ohioans have to work in the only place that they can possibly get a job is within walking distance. I forget what the company is, but the company’s getting ready to move. And it was just one of the biggest sob stories I have ever read and it was all great detail here. I read this, and my mouth is hanging open. I’m looking at the accompanying pictures, my mouth is hanging open. I cannot believe I’m reading this. I’m just going, “Damn, how does this story even get written?” At least if somebody at NPR was thinking, “Don’t publish these pictures...” My friends, I kid you not. You are looking at combined tonnage here of 800 pounds, this mother and daughter in the story about how they couldn’t afford meat. They can afford something. I think, folks, a lot of it is probably delivered.
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RUSH: It was NPR that did the story on the mother and daughter in Ohio who can’t afford meat. It was on All Things Considered. The headline here is, “For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach — A generation ago, the livelihood of Gloria Nunez’s family was built on cars. Her father worked at General Motors for 45 years ... Nunez and her six siblings grew up middle class. Things have changed considerably for this Ohio family. Nunez’s van broke down last fall. Now, her 19-year-old daughter has no reliable transportation out of their subsidized housing complex in Fostoria, 40 miles south of Toledo... “
Now, that’s all you need to know. Now, for those of you watching on the Dittocam, I’m going to attempt to zoom in so that you can see the picture of the subjects of this sob story. Keep in mind now: “For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach.” This is a terribly sad story. Let’s see. I’m trying to do this at the same time. All right, there we go. Do you see that? Let me straighten it out here. I’m giving the people watching on the Dittocam a chance to see this. That’s the lovely mother and daughter family no longer able to afford meat. Well, you can’t tell which one’s the mother and which one’s the daughter.
That’s what I was saying. You just can’t. Now, I don’t know. When I saw this, I said, “How in the world do you take this seriously?” Now, I realize this is a tease for those of you that aren’t able to see the program on the Dittocam, but that means you should sign up. You should become a subscriber. You can watch the program here every day at www.RushLimbaugh.com. Yeah. Here, okay. People want to see it one more time. I’m going to throw it up there one more time. Here we go. Is that focused? Is it focused? Okay, good. That’s the Nunez family after the van broke down. You see what I mean about this? They’re getting something to eat, and somebody has to be delivering it to them.
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My opinion, but it looks like much hasn't changed all too much for this family. I've never spent much on "muchies" at the grocery store. I think times aren't as difficult for most people as most people think. We may be in a slowdown, but we're not in a recession.
Thank you for your great service to us and our country. :-)
I will be watching the television and listening for your scream. Great job! Congratulations to you and yours. :-)
Huh? What did I so?
"My military service, 35 years ago..."
Again, thank you for your service.
Oh, no big deal, just doing my part.
What a shock; you’re a gambler too. How vulgar.
Well, eat your little heart out, PP, because my rooms, meals and champagne with strawberries were FREE. I won $700 and played on the casino’s money. I also received a lot of hugs from some of the slot attendants, their manager, and a few cocktail waitresses. I have a part-time job that I use to play slots (I’m sure you don’t have a problem with that).
Some of the nicest people that I’ve met were in casinos. And that’s because they’re happy because they’re not being told what they can and cannot do. I met this very nice couple from Cincinnati on this trip. The lady actually gave me a couple of band-aids to place in my shoes. I let her use my cell phone to locate her adult son. May I suggest that you go to a casino and see for yourself before you judge people and start dictating to people what they can and cannot do.
Oh, by the way, when I go to Pennsylvania to play slots, hubby and I make sure to gas up in Pennsylvania and buy anything else we need in Pennsylvania. We make sure that the nanny state of Ohio receives no tax dollars from us on that trip. Again, think about it.
I cannot believe the Pork Patrol is still around this week. I thought they had already starved to death.
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