In you go little Sheeple, Good little Sheeple....
Posted on 09/06/2009 11:17:08 AM PDT by traumer
At first glance it seems as if no one has turned up to meet June McCauley and his giant refrigerated truck. But as he drives into the car park, the inert cars suddenly bristle with life. Arms shoot out from car windows, each brandishing a fistful of empty plastic bags.
Mr McCauley climbs out of the truck and starts unloading heavy crates of tomatoes, onions, potatoes, milk cartons and bread on to the hot tarmac.
Sitting on the kerb nearby, Barbara Britton’s eyes widen. “Ooh, they’ve got some bread, they’ve got potatoes. We got some good stuff this time,” the 52-year-old says. “Cabbage, carrots – oh, I can make a good dinner this Sunday when I’ve got the children.”
This is a 21st-century breadline.
A few volunteers collect the plastic bags from the cars’ occupants and start packing them with food. After a while they tell drivers of the 50 or so vehicles – each of whom was given a ticket when arriving – to line up and drive past slowly. A few bulging bags are heaved into each vehicle, and off they go. Ms Britton and her elderly mother are the only ones on foot.
Scenes like this are playing out quietly across the US. Much less visible than the queues of down-and-outs emblematic of the Great Depression, they nevertheless offer a window on to the hidden impact of the nation’s worst economic downturn since the 1930s.
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Bush’s fault. /sarc
The drivers head home, carry their booty into their air conditioned homes and store it in the sub-zero. Then, after popping open a beer, they park in front of the flat screen for an afternoon’s fun playing WII. Later, when the kids go to bed, after watching a PPV movie and wonder where they will get their next meal.
I work with someone like this.
Maryland.
Most likely Baraqqis.
Hope you enjoy the ride folks.
That Hope and Change is getting “all wee weed up.”
PG County? The Brooklyn of the Beltway? You can probably count the McCain voters on one hand.
In the past Ms Melton used plentiful credit to cushion herself somewhat. But the recession put paid to that. “Your credit card is your ace in the hole if you got it,” the 75-year-old says, leaning out of her car window as she waits her turn. “But then you got to pay on it. Sometimes you can get a thing in the mail where you can find one that’s going to pay off the other one with low interest rates for about a year. “You jump on that ad...[but there’s] not as much coming up as there used to be.”
Ah, the Obama voter in a nutshell.
LOL! So so true. People have no clue about budgeting then they complain they are broke.
I be they also have season tickets and top of the line HD cable service with all the channels, the kids have cell phones and text endlessly plus new iPods and laptops.
I love her talking about her credit cards and then she says “but then you got to pay onit” !! Unreal. Yeah you actually “got to pay on it.”
She thinaks she can transfer the balance and get a new card to avoid “payin on it.”
Unreal.
Sometimes you can get a thing in the mail where you can find one that’s going to pay off the other one with low interest rates for about a year.
“You jump on that ad...[but there’s] not as much coming up as there used to be.”
“they also have season tickets and top of the line HD cable service with all the channels, the kids have cell phones and text endlessly plus new iPods and laptops...”
This is a stereotype
Just a wee bit over the top.
HAHA !
What? No pictures? Not even of the vehicles they were driving??
I know a very emotional lib that live in a nice house, drives a car that’s a decade newer than mine, has a brand-new PC, and broadband, but screams about how he cant afford health-care and hopes we get socialized medicine
Oh and I’ve seen some of these food trucks in church parking lots with people getting out of, cars to go to them, that cost more per month than my grocery bill.
Hungry middle classes take up handoutsSo .... what are they considering priorities for available funds?
Satellite TV?
Cell phone with an all-you-can-eat plan?
A 3G iPhone?
New car? Bought under the clunkers program?
What?
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