Once-prosperous family struggling on the edge

The Dallas Morning News ^ | Aug. 18, 2003 | SHERRY JACOBSON

[Hildy]

People out on the street? Middle-class people not being able to make ends meet? Smells like election season to me!

[Porterville]

Bull Sh!+

[Maceman]

Pretty cold.

[Spruce]

This is ALL GEORGE BUSH'S FAULT!

[Hans]

Remarkable tale.
Perhaps we might try saving next time round.

[KantianBurke]

figures you would say something like that.

[Porterville]

There are a ton of jobs in Dallas, and there are a ton of jobs in less expensive parts of TX.

[omegatoo]

potatoes, milk and coffee
Coffee??
Coffee??
She's feeding her handicapped child coffee???
Glad she's got her priorities straight.

O2

[Hans]

Thought about the Wessenberg's a bit more, I think the
whole thing is a fabrication.

[EggsAckley]

potatoes, milk and coffee,

coffee!!??! She could pass on the 6-bucks-a-pound coffee and buy some real food.

I can't stop thinking that she is a made-up character in somebody's liberal mind.

[new cruelty]

LOL, no pictures were provided in the article.

[Porterville]

There are foodstamps, there is unemployment insurance, there are jobs cleaning houses, there are jobs cleaning tolets, there are HR jobs at SMU, Highland Park, the number of malls in the area, there are even jobs picking up dog poop. Also, there are programs that give grants to people to go back to school and financial aid for these "victims". And, I'm suppose to believe she has no family support anywhere in the USA??? Right.... Liberal lies and crank addicts doesn't mean it's a story to be listened to

[EggsAckley]

And here's another little tid-bit: She got good enough at it that she netted about $15 an hour, just enough for groceries.

$15 an hour, after several hours she's made what a Burger King worker has made in a day.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I drop a few bucks in the can every now and then. I figure that God will judge me by my generosity (or lack of it) as well as the person who holds the bucket.


That said. There ARE jobs and there is food stamps.

[Protagoras]

Buncha BS if ya ask me.

A few years ago here in Chicago we had all these morons standing by the exit ramps of the expressways with signs saying "will work for food". Most were women, they get more suckers to feel sorry for them. Some of them even used their children as props. Even the most conservative estimates of how much they got from each car that responded showed them making an astounding amount of tax free money.

A local television station reporter finally staked a half a dozen of them out over time. He watched them as their day came to a close and they walked several blocks away to their new cars and followed them back to their confortable suburban homes. He then hopped out with the camera rolling and started asking them questions about how much they made and what they needed it for.

After a few nights of that on the 10 pm news, you couldn't find one anywhere anymore. What a coincidence! The homeless problem was solved almost overnight.

[Tijeras_Slim]

We just have to hope that the next time that phone rings it will be a job that turns all this around.

Why do losers like this always wait for someone to call them?
No sympathy from Slim.

[Our man in washington]

Let's list the problems here:

1. They had no money, but somehow, applying for Medicaid to pay for treatment was out of the question.

2. The woman was so desperate that she had to beg for money, but not so desperate that she would consider moving to New York City for a while to be with a family who could help her.

3. The husband's story that he couldn't even find a retail job is pretty suspicious. Also, what did he do before and how did he lose that job?

Things that make you go hmmm...