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Posted on 09/26/2012 10:02:15 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
On a recent evening, a hip-looking young woman was sorting through a stack of crates outside a fruit and vegetable store here in the working-class neighborhood of Vallecas as it shut down for the night.
At first glance, she looked as if she might be a store employee. But no. The young woman was looking through the day’s trash for her next meal. Already, she had found a dozen aging potatoes she deemed edible and loaded them onto a luggage cart parked nearby.
“When you don’t have enough money,” she said, declining to give her name, “this is what there is.”
The woman, 33, said that she had once worked at the post office but that her unemployment benefits had run out and she was living now on 400 euros a month, about $520. She was squatting with some friends in a building that still had water and electricity, while collecting “a little of everything” from the garbage after stores closed and the streets were dark and quiet.
Such survival tactics are becoming increasingly commonplace here, with an unemployment rate over 50 percent among young people and more and more households having adults without jobs. So pervasive is the problem of scavenging that one Spanish city has resorted to installing locks on supermarket trash bins as a public health precaution.
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Were you replying to PapaBear ?
Same sentiment, shorter: "Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig".
You're right. I don't know your details, and you don't know mine.
Please stop projecting your past unhappy relationships onto other FReepers.
No, I was replying to your comment about molesting underage children and multiple wives. I was agreeing with you. (Post 77, I think.)
BWAAA-HAH-HAHAHAHAHAHA!
I would love for the rich to pay more, except they never do, and we working stiff middle class just see everything we pay go up, up, up....
If the Fed keeps printing money, there will always be some
in the EBT cards, but they won’t buy much and the rest of us
will also have less and less buying power. I believe that
SHTF happens when we all have to line up for our allotment
of whatever we can get. Unless there is some riots, or
war, SHTF may sneek up on us. You have any other ideas of
how we can know that it’s upon us?
I will start by saying that PapaBear's comments were dead on accurate. You said "'off the mark...idiotic". The truth is the truth no matter how many miserable men you have been with.
You need an education in being a single mother.
I was awarded full custody of my children when they were still in diapers. I do not need 'jack', especially from you. Your comment to PapaBear about teaching his wife "Defiant Womanhood" was beyond repulsive.
Your comments are ridiculous beyond believing.
My comments were only about hiring housekeepers. Is that ridiculous?
Do not try to ‘splain life to me, Lucy.
My name is not Lucy. It is Mr. Elliott to you.
Been there, done that, and never sold my body in the process, in any way, shape or form.
I have. It's called a J.O.B. Sounds like you never had one.
If you agree, then you need to be cast adrift into the Sea of Abusive Men. If you are one, then some day, you will know what it means to be abused.
I have been abused, by a mean-assed woman. Never again!
-"Defiant Manhood"
You would love to see the rich pay more, what?
The top 5% of income earners pay 50% of the total income taxes. The top 10% pay 70% of the total.
And that's not enough to suit you...???
Pray tell, what would it take?
There just aren't enough "rich" to pay all the bills, they have enough money to hire good people to figure out how to shield their assets, and they can also buy congressmen to make the loopholes for them.
So it always has been, and always will be the "middle class" that pays for it all.
In this context, I define "middle class" as classically defined, namely doctors, lawyers, small business owners, and those of similar income level.
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