No bonuses for jobless, hungry (BARF Alert)

Yahoo News Op/Ed ^ | 12/8/02 | Jill Nelson - USA Today

[driftless]

What you said!

[driftless]

In my part of the country (western Wisconsin) we have a large drive going to "feed the hungry" among the area's population. As I motor around and visit malls and other large gathering places, I'm wondering "where in blazes are all the hungry?" Mostly I see a very large percentage of blimp-sized children and their proportionally jumbo-sized parents. Where are the human wraithes and skeletons hiding? I'd like to see how many actual hungry people there are in my area. I certainly can't find them.

[driftless]

Hitler was a success of a sort.

[smokegenerator]

I get a sense of knowing you plagarizing your nickname and not bright enough to have an original postername.

She is clever enough to reach the media top to rake in the six-figures, clever enough to be heard to soothe and stroke her ego. Fool enough to believe in her twisted liberal views who favors the bad people and tightens the noose on the good people.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

Imagine NEA cronies sucking up the Department of Education funds on a local basis so they can pay their employees bonuses (not the teachers mind you, the administrators) and in some cases make $80,000 more than a Congressman. Imagine our Coast Guard being asked to defend more coastline with fewer ships and men now than they had in WWII, yet still being asked to prevent incursions. Imagine actually using our tax dollars to pay companies to relocate manufacturing to China and Mexico and then the idiots at the Department of Labor acting "shocked" at the sudden increase in unemployment. Imagine.

[Denver Ditdat]

-- back when the economy was booming, the budget had a surplus and terrorist attacks on American soil were unimaginable.

Gee, Jill, your imagination must be a lot more feeble than mine. In 1993 I imagined that Jihadists tried to detonate a bomb beneath the World Trade Center. Just two years later I imagined a truck bomb exploding in front of a government building in Oklahoma, this time with extensive damage and loss of life.

Other products of my busy imagination: tanks, flames, and bodies burned to a crisp at a Texas religious compound, and flak jacketed stormtroopers bursting into a Miami bedroom. I don't suppose those count, since they were carried out by the government and not terrorists.

And all in the administration of the Most Venerated St. William Jefferson of Clinton.

Imagine that.

[FITZ]

I live in one of the economically worst areas where huge numbers of people are collecting welfare, WIC, Food Stamps, there are free breakfasts and lunch at the HeadStarts and schools and all the time they say we've got a problem ---we also have the nation's worse obesity problem, childhood obesity especially. You see the people with carts piled high with cookies, cokes, and ice cream pull out a Lone Star card (food stamps) to pay for it all.

[Go Gordon]

she may be a loser in your words and have a differance of opinion with my views. But, she is more successful than you and I.

I don't think so, Tim.