Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
“It’s the one thing I can count on every month — I know the children are going to have food .” ISABEL BERMUDEZ, who has two daughters and no cash income.
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Posted on 01/02/2010 7:07:06 PM PST by Dubya
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
“It’s the one thing I can count on every month — I know the children are going to have food .” ISABEL BERMUDEZ, who has two daughters and no cash income.
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Some very sad times in America.
I just got a letter today stating that my unemployment is being cut by 2.3% because the trust fund is low. (and in PA, I paid into that from my paycheck.....one of only 3 states to do so).
As I was reading the letter, I was curious if the welfare mamas would be getting similar cuts. Not this woman; I am referring to true deadbeats. My guess is absolutely not.
And, once hired, they should do whatever it takes, including working unpaid hours, to make it happen.
Sorry about the cut.
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Jeez...from a six figure salary plus investment property to cash less. Did she save anything? I call BS on this one.
What’s so sad about it. 6 figure income and she didn’t tuck anything away for hard times? With two kids? But she bought a pool and an “investment property?” It ain’t all salad days. Did she learn her lesson? Will she save next time? I wonder what kind of car she was driving back in the good old days. I wonder how much money she frittered away on petty crap. No tears from me.
You beat me to it. On a six figure income, you could put away 10s of thousands of dollars a year.
Where’s the daddy?
Some Stimulus!
Must need another.
Some people need and deserve to be fed by food stamps. Unfortunately, that’s the minority of food stamp recipients....
My thoughts too.. something doesn't sound right about this one.
Exactly what I was thinking. If I ever learned anything from my parents and grandparents it was ALWAYS put something away for the rainy day.
There are a lot of jobs available out there that don't require resumes.
I haven't been unemployed since I was 16 years old. I don't say that to brag but just to state that there is ALWAYS work out there.
The problem with a lot of the unemployed is that they feel they are too good to do certain jobs that they feel is "beneath them." I consider myself a professional but during the course of my working life, I washed dishes in restaurants, slung luggage on conveyor belts at the airport, bagged groceries and shagged carriages at a supermarket and I even did a brief stint delivering pizzas when I was my 30s to supplement income during a time when money was tough.
My wife, who is also a professional (computer programmer), sold Tupperware and worked the cash register at a pharmacy when she was between jobs. She has been laid off three times during her career so far.
We are both in our late 40s and have never collected a single unemployment check between the both of us.
A friend today told me that of his three sons..only one is in trouble financially, because of the recession. That is the one who went to Wharton BS..and over extended himself on his large income.
A lot of these people were making big bucks in the phoney market and didn’t save, but piled on debt.
Thanks.
Wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for the fact that every paycheck had money taken out for it. I feel like it’s a contract which has been broken.
where’s daddy?
My mother refused all government assistance and I didn’t even know that it was available to people in Houston, Texas.
We sometimes went without food, and often had nothing but rice or oatmeal all day or sometimes a supper of cornbread dipped in milk, and we never had what we wanted, meat, fruit,enough milk, and ice cream and such.
I used to be very proud of my child hood and it’s stubborn independence, but in recent years I see that it was all too old school for our modern times, my mother and my brothers were playing by old American rules, while the rich were importing our replacements from around the globe.
Our culture was doomed and being replaced, long before I realized the score.
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