Posted on 11/08/2010 4:53:13 AM PST by IbJensen
I love the part about it being such a “hardship” to get on a bus to shop for decent food for your kids. This country has so infantilized some minorities, it is beyond belief. Here is a clue: Don't have bastard kids by multiple sperm donors when you can't even take care of yourself.
Mrs. Obama....we aren't buying what you are selling. Oh, and btw, from the looks of your caboose, you must live in a “food desert”.
Because they don’t want to be forced to allow the unions to control the stores, that and pay what the Aldermen feel is a living wage. When they did build one close to downtown I forget how many tens of thousands of applications they had filled out, people stood in line for hours for one of their “low paying” jobs. But don’t fear, Mayor Rahm will wave his magic wand and make things all better in a few months... /s
Yep.
I was checking out in the grocery store the other day behind a mid-20s aged couple, both very overweight, with two chubby kids in tow. They had 2 HUGE overflowing carts full of all kinds of prepared and packaged food (name brands, of course) including expensive steaks and sugary drinks. Much of this food I wouldn't often buy for myself because of the expense and content.
You guessed it. They paid with a food stamps *credit card*. They asked the checker if they could buy "anything" with the food stamps. She said, "Yep, no limit"! And apparently there really wasn't, as the bill was well over two hundred dollars - and they had other items besides food.
It was more food than our own family could or would eat in two months.
Strangely enough, I didn't see any fresh vegetables or fruit. I suspect they also had a rather large pickup truck or car to carry all the stuff home to their Section 8 digs...
In the Los Angeles area, lots of Korean immigrants take huge risks (financial and personal safety) to open up small liquor/mini marts in places where the chain grocers have been forced out. Yes, that's right: Forced out.
These shop owners are rather despised by the “community”.
I shall never understand how the left thinks it does certain minorities a favor by treating them as little, helpless babies.
Oh, and I understand that the Korean’s are getting out of this game as the “community” is driving them out as they did with the chain grocers.
We moved to Long Island in the early 50’s, none of the Moms drove and there were few supermarkets, mostly small little markets. If my Mom wanted groceries she walked with her cart or I rode my bike to pick up what she needed. Gee, we somehow survived and got plenty of exercise to boot.
Just another government power grab IMO
money grab more like it...let her mail out tomatoes from her garden
Exactly!!
Another thought: If the Obamas are so impressed with the European lifestyle...then why don’t they understand that the majority of people walk a lot more than a mile or two every day? The French eat a lot of fat in their diet...but the walking is what accounts for a slimmer physique.
What’s wrong with people eating frozen or canned fruits I wonder? Fresh is not always the best in terms of nutrition. And my apples last a long time when kept in the fridge...
I lost a job back in 67 because of race riots in Newark,NJ...was a dairy/frozen food manager after I graduated HS....was making real money just had turned 19 and poof..the national known “grocery” store abandon ship at that location and shortly there after....the government got interested in my capabilities...*smiles*...but I beat that too. I enlisted.
Good point! But in reality the convenience stores and even the sidewalk vendors in neighborhoods where people like to eat fresh vegetables and foods like that have them for sale. The store owners stock and sell what their customers want. If you go to a poor neighborhood in any US city that is populated by Asians, you'll find all kinds of vegetables, rice, and fresh meat and fish readily available. You can buy them cooked, or farm fresh right from the crates. Around here you can even pick out the chicken while it is still clucking.
In most Hispanic neighborhoods, poor or not, you can buy plantains, yucca, and other fresh vegetables in the local convenience store, along with beans, rice, etc. And eat a variety of dishes at the local restaurants, many with a healthy mix of vegetables, beans, etc.
What people eat is really determined by the cultural background, not their income level, or minority group membership. From my own experience I know that poor recent immigrants from Haiti and Jamaica aren't sitting around eating hot dogs, fast food, or pizza. The diets decried by our First Lady are an American cultural tradition. Rich or poor, Americans like hamburgers, barbecue, fried chicken, pie, donuts, etc.
Encouraging Americans to eat a more healthy diet is a good thing - the cultural food traditions of a large part of our country aren't necessarily the best for you health wise. But they sure are good, and the idea that people eat hamburgers and fast food because there isn't a supermarket nearby is nonsense.
Oh my! As our fearless leader says “Don’t everybody get all wee-weed up!” This is merely a “Community Reinvestment Act” for food! And we all know how well the CRA worked - why just look at all of the poor people who own McMansions! And, just like the CRA, the responsible hard-working taxpayers who subsidize it (along with Section 8 housing assistance), will also pay billions of your money to eliminate “Food Deserts.” So, along with Medicaid, the CRA & Section 8, food subsidies, fuel oil subsidies, transportation subsidies, and education subsidies, we now have supermarket subsidies. Nothing new here.
LOL
Absolutely! I hope the $400 mil includes money for security for the stores and for escorting the people too and from them so they won't get mugged and their money and veggies stolen.
Historically, before 2000, the US and Europe equated Conservatives as blue and liberals as red...Europe still does....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states
Its obvious why the liberal MSM had to change it as communists were always referred to as Reds...It was too obvious!...lol
thanks for the info
and of course the reds in the media didn’t want their commie friends in the dem party appearing red on the media maps
I’ll get you an autographed photo to hang over your bed, driftwood.
There were solutions but people depending on the gummint to do everything meant that nothing was done at all. and there it is...
bingo...
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