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For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach
www.npr.org ^ | July 17, 2008 | Yuki Noguchi

Posted on 07/18/2008 8:35:21 PM PDT by Freedom_Isn't_Free

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........(excerpted)

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: economy; learnedhelplessness; welfare
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1 posted on 07/18/2008 8:35:21 PM PDT by Freedom_Isn't_Free
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To: Freedom_Isn't_Free

“Nunez, 40, has never worked and has no high school degree.”


2 posted on 07/18/2008 8:37:21 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Freedom_Isn't_Free

I think they could go quite some time without any food, at all.


3 posted on 07/18/2008 8:37:56 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Islam: Imagine a clown car.........with guns.)
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To: digger48

Even NPR should know that one receives a diploma upon completion of high school, not a degree. Sheesh.


4 posted on 07/18/2008 8:39:12 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Freedom_Isn't_Free

Yep, we still have the fattest poor people in the world.


5 posted on 07/18/2008 8:39:37 PM PDT by libs_kma (NOBAMA. Keep the change)
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To: Freedom_Isn't_Free

Love the caption:

“Angelica Hernandez (left) and her mother, Gloria Nunez, struggle to make ends meet on a very limited budget”

They sure as hell are eating well I’d say. You could make about 4 to 5 people from the two of them.


6 posted on 07/18/2008 8:44:07 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Been here before)
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"Nunez and most of her siblings and their spouses are unemployed and rely on government assistance and food stamps."

I was completely shocked by that fact.

/s

7 posted on 07/18/2008 8:45:24 PM PDT by LasVegasMac (Islam: Bringing the world death and destruction for 1400 years!)
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To: Freedom_Isn't_Free

Meat may be out of reach, but Chocolate, Cheetos and high fat products don’t seem to be. What clown uses these whales as evidence of folks going hungry.


8 posted on 07/18/2008 8:48:33 PM PDT by Malsua
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‘nother report from the media on po’ folks on the democrat plantation.

your poverty is our gain.

/s


9 posted on 07/18/2008 8:50:31 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: Freedom_Isn't_Free

You would think they would have gotten some skinny poor people if they were going to run a hit piece on the economy. Credibility is lacking here!


10 posted on 07/18/2008 8:51:05 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Freedom_Isn't_Free

This is why the buffoons at NPR are the laughing stock of the BIG media industry. Did anyone bother to check out the accompanying photo? Geeesh!


11 posted on 07/18/2008 8:51:14 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. Constitution was not written to protect those who want to destroy America.)
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To: Malsua

Hey, don’t you know the classic signs of malnutrition when you see ‘em?


12 posted on 07/18/2008 8:51:15 PM PDT by Freedom_Isn't_Free (in fact, it isn't even cheap)
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For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach

Yeah. THEY ATE IT ALL.

13 posted on 07/18/2008 8:51:51 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Is that why Jenny Craig is so expensive?

Literally, if poverty makes them so fat, we need to stop cutting welfare checks - that will end the obesity epidemic. And if our own people have to dig ditches and lay pipe, maybe we won’t need so many Mexicans to do it, either.


14 posted on 07/18/2008 8:54:53 PM PDT by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell" - on amazon.com)
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You don’t get to be that big on a vegan diet. This is a high lard/Burger King diet that makes someone this huge.


15 posted on 07/18/2008 8:56:06 PM PDT by boop (Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
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yep.

wasn’t that one of the things that got phil gramm in trouble with the liberal-socialist media last week?

he remarked that this was the only country in the world where the poor people were over weight!


16 posted on 07/18/2008 8:58:35 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: Freedom_Isn't_Free

Hubby said meat is out of their reach because they’ve eaten it all. ;) No cows left in Hancock, Wood, Seneca or Sandusky County.


17 posted on 07/18/2008 8:59:07 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW ("Make yourself sheep, and the wolves will eat you" Benjamin Franklin)
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To: boop

Man, I warned you not to hit the “enlarge” button. Now just try to get a good night’s sleep!


18 posted on 07/18/2008 8:59:45 PM PDT by Freedom_Isn't_Free (in fact, it isn't even cheap)
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To: Freedom_Isn't_Free

What a disgusting article.


19 posted on 07/18/2008 9:01:16 PM PDT by ottbmare
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Jack Sprat could eat no fat; his wife could eat no lean.

That sure seemed to be appropriate.

20 posted on 07/18/2008 9:04:54 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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