Posted on 12/17/2010 6:10:38 AM PST by magellan
Get out of Georgia as fast as possible...
If your school district is like the one here, they encourage as many people as possible to sign up for the lunch programs, because the school gets more resources from the district, and the district gets more from the state and Feds, if they have more “underprivileged” students. Every now and then the papers will run an article about the various dodges people us, and the poor efforts at verification. It’s a swindle all around.
Maybe the free lunch will be less attractive when Michelle Obama is planning the menu ;-).
Well, even if I could get them on assisted lunches, I wouldn’t be inclined.
I fix their lunch every morning, and sometimes I put little notes in their bags as well. You know, goofy things, sometimes a smiley face, a goofy face on a post-it, or something inspirational, like “Love ya” or “good luck on your test”.
As much as they grumble about my tuna sammiches or leftover meatloaf, I think they appreciate it. My oldest daughter asks me not to put in goofy notes, because it embarrasses her.... I told her NO WAY. She just smiles about it.
Nah, even if they could get a free lunch... there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Dad’s love is priceless :)
The school can’t provide that for em.
Oh yeah, and they get little debbie as well. The school gives the kids carrot sticks, so I got that going for me as well.
This. So much this. A couple months back we had to work with our church and the mechanic to help us pay for a shattered wheel bearing on my 15-year-old, 178,000-mile truck. It about KILLED me when I found out that the church paid about half the bill (around $250). I was raised to never take charity, so I don’t know quite how to handle it and actually graciously receive something like that. :)
For this woman to stand in front of a really nice high-def TV and Xbox and complain about the taxpayers of Bibb County not paying her heat bill? She’s got a lot of something the Yiddish call “chutzpah,” but the folks down in Macon probably just call “balls.” You could do without some video games and TV, lady. Sell ‘em, heat your house. Priorities.
}:-)4
I guess this country needs to pass through some hard times to weed out the useless drones. I violently resent the slobs that won’t do anything for themselves except stick their hand out. If I had no heat, I’d be cutting up fallen trees in public lands. A bow saw costs only 10 bucks. Those so-called poor could pack a lot of fire wood in their Lexus.
As of this time, there are 148 comments to the article at the Telegraph - not many are sympathetic. :-)
I winder if the posing of the picture was a suble protest by the photog as he could have shown her in another room sans all the goodies. If so, kudos are in order.
When I lived in Macon in the ‘90s my Georgia Power bill had a little box to check, imploring me to add $5 or more “to help the poor pay their heating bill”. I wrote them that, sadly, I had to decline, as it seemed to just be a way to guarantee that GP got its money. However, I would gladly add $5 to a fund which LENT THE MONEY to the “poor” at a low interest rate to insulate their houses, repayable at $1 extra on each of their monthly power bills. Never heard back from them.
Maybe all of her rooms had flat screen TVs.
Depends on when you get it too. If you’re looking for it NOW, you’re gonna pay. Plus, notice I said that was CUT and DELIVERED. Adds a bit to the price. If I wanted green wood that I would have cut myself earlier this spring/summer, I could have had it for under $150/cord.
There’s a fellow I work with who, a month or so ago, got 15 cords, cut, split, aged and delivered, for about $1750.
Yup—last time I checked, those X-Box/PS/Wii games ran about $50 a pop for the more popular titles. How much ya wanna bet there’s some SERIOUS stuff in a box, just gathering dust, like Call Of Duty, Madden 11 (all of them), etc?
Cry me a damn river Raymeica! Turn off the damn TV, Blueray and DirectV and you probably will have enough to run that little electric heater you probably didn't have to pay for, either....go cuddle up to another baby daddy for warmth if you can find one.
I think pellets here run about $200 per ton, slightly less if you shop around.
That was my first thought too! (Photographer deliberately shooting at that angle.)
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