You're gonna need a bigger monitor.
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.
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Heh heh. If the guy was working for all those years, probably union, why are they living in subsidized housing?
Re the weight, go veg, my sisters, go veg! You don't need no stinkin' meat. Of course, by the looks of things, you don't no stinkin' veggies either.
No, but it is part of it. A lot of poor folks just don’t know what to eat, either.
Of course, I knew some “poor” folks who ate better than anyone else I know - from their garden, from the jars in their basement, and from the deer and other critters in the garage freezer. Some people will never be poor no matter how little money they have. Have to admire them.
Wonder how much that tatoo cost. Probably more than they pay for their rent in the public housing.
If they were to leave Ohio, which has just declined more under the do-nothing Ted Strickland and went to another state with lower taxes, no indexed minimum wage (yes, the minimum wage in Ohio automatically goes up with inflation), no threat of mandatory seven days paid sick leave, in short, a better business climate, they’d find jobs.
The country is not yet in a recession, but Ohio has been in one for years. Who is at fault for that? I’d say state and local government.
You're gonna need a bigger monitor.
This is very true, the cheap foods are starchy and unhealthy. But there is a limit to how much you need to eat of that food. Also, they have some dirt somewhere I assume, or some pots to grow things in. We work hard in our garden every year, like bust butt hard, but we get “free” vegetables from it. All for the cost of seed, which is about a $20 investment.
Or someone. I hope they're not planning on going to the Demoncrap Convention. They'll starve to death.
“....but can’t afford meat and fresh veggies.”
Baloney. See some of the previous posts about food stamp shoppers.
These two porkers eat A LOT OF FOOD.
PERIOD.
These people are ignorant.
Do you know what you can do with soupbones(I bet they could get them free) some veggies and a little bit of meat?
I can’t figure out why these people can’t get a job.
Job Interview: “Sit down, please.”
Interviewee: “I’m sorry, I can’t fit in the chair”.
I could feed 10 people good on 10 bucks if I had to
After seeing the picture, I understand why the van broke down!
Pictures do not lie. Walker Evans photographed the starving and drawn faces that resulted from both the dust bowl and the Great Depession. If the leftist MSM propaganda is looking for poster children for ecomomic hard times, they gonna have to keep on looking.
Dave Ramsey, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Dry beans too. My mom used to make pintos, corn and biscuits on weeks my dad was laid off. I didn’t starve. The pinto’s were pennies a bag and a can of corn was cheap too.
And for a treat, we would take the “almost expired sale” can biscuits and make donuts out of them. Cinnamon and sugar sprinkled donuts. Yum.
The left isn’t scoring many points trying to make working Americans feel sorry for people like this. No wonder their van broke down.
I agree and disagree. I bet they are malnourished. However, it's not the carbs, it's the carbs and fat. It's also the high probabiity that they are eating processed carbs rather than whole foods such as potatoes and beans. You can eat that stuff, but you can't slather it with butter or fry it up, even with olive oil.
Diabetic 10 years, did low carb forever w/moderate results. Best and fastest improvements in weight and blood sugar have been with low fat vegan. And in the end, the low fat, no cholesterol way of eating will be better for my heart, since heart disease is what kills most diabetics anyway.
First they'd have to find a gargantuan turkey baster.
Brown rice is 25 cents a pound, dry.
Kidney beans and black beans and pinto beans are maybe 40 cents a pound.
A whole chicken costs about as much as five Snickers bars or two boxes of Devil Dogs.
A couple of pounds of whatever fresh vegetable is on special at the local supermarket is about the same.
For a couple of normal people that's lunch and dinner for a week for about $20-25.
Oatmeal is about 50 cents a pound, honey is about 1 to 2 boxes of Devil Dogs a pound. That's breakfast for two normal people for a week for less than $10.
All you need is a little oil, some spices and water and an hour or two a week to have a healthy, filling albeit repetitive diet.
Eating donuts for breakfast, McDonald's for lunch and pizza for dinner while snacking on Milky Ways and Cheetos all day to a level that would sustain these women in their morbid obesity costs about the same per day.
They are malnourished by their own deliberate choice.
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