For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach (She pays #100 for rent)

NPR ^ | 7/17/08 | Yuki Noguchi

[Jeff Chandler]

Hunger in America!

[Anti-Bubba182]

They can’t be happy like that!

[Vince Ferrer]

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.

Phil Gramm needs to host his own reality talent show, something like "America's got whiners."

[Jeff Chandler]

Cut back on the starch and eats lot of meat!

They need cheap protein? I suggest eggs. And buy a chicken when it goes on sale.

Meals from a chicken:

1. Roast the chicken. Eat the chicken breasts.
2. Make gravy out of the drippings. Add chunks of dark meat to the gravy and serve over toast or ($1.00 a pound) egg noodles.
3. Make soup out of the carcass.

When we were first married, we had some lean times. We ate chicken livers and gizzards with onions. We had hot dogs with macaroni and cheese. One time we went a couple days on popcorn and ice tea. You can get by on little money and not starve or blimp out.

[SkyPilot]

Just keep pulling that big "D" letter in the voting booth.

[stravinskyrules]

Get rid of the car and get a flatbed for these fat f***s.

Amurica is he only country in the world in with it's poor and downtrodden own 2 TV's and are fatter than hell.

[Krankor]

It appears the one in the red doesn't actually eat any food, but just shoves it under her shirt. She may double as the family's refrigerator.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

MEANWHILE, this from World Vision International...((people under Mugabe's hand are experiencing famine and don't have the liberty to pursue a job, like these women could if they were serious about it)).


Every seven seconds, a child dies at the hand of a silent killer. Hunger. Right now, millions of children in Africa are at risk of starvation....

Read more...

[TigersEye]

$100 used to buy about 12 bags of groceries,

When? 1965?

[ashtanga]

It is funny, but I am reasonably well off, and try my best to cut calories from meal to meal. I rarely but regularly have meat, and am happy with fresh fruits, veggies, sunflower seeds, low fat cottage cheese and egg white omelets. For a kick, I sometimes cook up a small pot of lentils. I am always a bit hungry, and wouldn’t have it any other way. Proper nutrition sometimes calls for spending less but buying smartly. If some NPR diversanesta knew of my plight,and could detach it from context, well, what a followup story they’d have.

[Jeff Chandler]

low fat cottage cheese

Super Protein. Tastes good, too.

[woofie]

I have not been able to afford to live for the last 7 years (since Clinton left office) Things are so bad I also cant afford to die..Funerals are too high ...I am therefore stuck in the middle...Help me Please

Please send this to PBS I am sure they will want to run my story

[woofie]

Im sorry things are so bad I didnt realize that was NPR

[paulat]

Yes, this is the ultimat point.

[paulat]

Sorry, “ultimate”

[Bishop_Malachi]

This story ran on National Proletariat Radio? That’s no surprise. I work with a couple of hippies who love to listen to NPR. I have no doubt that I’ll hear from my co-workers about how some Americans -due to the “poor economy”- are on protein-deficient diets.

[barkeep]

Some years ago in a story on immigration, legal or otherwise, I believe it was Jonah Goldberg, found an actual (approved) application for naturalization from an Indian applicant. On the line, “Why do you want to live in America?”, this fellow forthrightly answered, “I have always dreamed of living in a country where the poor people could be fat”.

For 99% of human history, it could be assumed that anyone with the disposable income to BE fat was, if not rich, better off than his/her neighbors. Ask any resident of Darfur. Only in America could people with NO income require a (publically-funded, no doubt) forklift for the sheer mechanics of a publically funded burial.

[radiohead]

She says a car accident 17 years ago left her depressed and disabled, incapable of getting a job.

Jebus, I missed this when the article was posted earlier. I've known people who were blind, crippled, retarded, amputees, and wheelchair-bound who were all able to find some kind of gainful employment. While not all disabilities are visible, based on the picture, I really, really wonder what is this woman's disability.

[xrmusn]

Depression?
When you look at their ‘lifestyle’ changes they cite that they no longer get ice cream.
From the looks of them that is a good decision.
Just say NO to seconds ladies—I also wonder how many different last names that woman has under one roof.
They claim that the daughter doesn’t ‘want to go that way’ when it comes to kids. I just really can’t see her getting ‘bred’. Of course she would probably look pretty good at closing time to many of her peers...
The Govt would give her fertility pills and other forms of artificial insemination so she can realize her mothers ‘dream’ of (grand)motherhood (and increased bennies)

[Loyal Buckeye]

Beat me to it. Great minds think alike. ;-)