Posted on 08/07/2007 11:00:37 AM PDT by NEMDF
---Still available for pennies.
and maybe a splurge on moisturizer or sun screen?
---LoL.
What about diapers, baby wipes, feminine hygiene products and a few basic first aid supplies for the kids?
---Vinegar, cotton balls, a cotton sheet, isopropyl alcohol. Again available for pennies. I can just see me asking my dad for "first aid supplies" as a kid. What could that possibly mean beyond a band-aid? LMAO.
---When mommy and/or daddy can pay for extracurricular activities then they can pay for food.
I'm not arguing with you; I am against the perpetuation of the welfare lifestyle. Encouraging smart shopping, budgeting and good household habits rather than just giving away or cheaply selling prepared boxes of food is a better approach. My point was that the "pennies" add up.
By "first aid supplies" I mean benadryl-type stuff for allergies/bee-stings,etc, antibiotic ointment for burns scrapes, maybe over the counter vitamins, particularly important if your diet may be lacking in some areas. Generic over the counter cough medicine, acetaminophen and such is certainly cheaper and faster than a trip to the emergency room for two $50 tylenol charged to Medicaid.
And if you take your kids on the train or bus to the public beach in the summer or even soccer field, don't you put some sunscreen on them? Doesn't sound like a wild extravagance or terrible waste of money to me. I'm not talking about cigarettes and manicures.
BTW, many school districts make sports (and music) programs available to any student at no additional cost so that all may participate regardless of their family's financial situation. Once we taxpayers have agreed to fund these programs in our school budgets, all students get their uniforms and transportation to games at no additional cost to the family, regardless of their ability (or inability) to pay. Band and orchestra instruments are made available for those who need as well.
I've always felt the kid carrying the trumpet or violin who passes down my street walking from the high school to the projects a few blocks away is less likely to be one who mugs me.
Exactly. I have 2 kids, I'm a SAHM and my husband owns his own business. I have worked hard to learn how to match grocery sales with coupons and now am spending at most about $200 for groceries, and another $50 or so on other essentials (TP, paper towels, toiletries, household items, etc). And my pantry is overflowing. I'm so sick of these sympathy ploys by the MSM - whether it's for the "poor and oppressed" or for the "illegals that are just trying to make a living and not get deported" - give me a break.
If you include toiletres, etc, I’m way over 500! I have all daughters, but agree with your post.
Nobody who is so lazy that they are on government support should bripe about how much they get. If they don’t like it, get a damn job. The government already gave them a high school diploma, unless they intentonally screwed thta up too, but then why the hell is that the fault and burden of the taxpayers? Yeah, this stuff really pisses me off.
And, what of her children’s college tuitions?? Pre-college? (For example, we spent a few grand so our 11 year old could go to a good college this summer). Have her children even been to summer camp?
What is worse is that what is happening to our nation that we don’t give a shit anymore. This story is about a woman with an abusive ex-husband struggling to raise her children in an urban project. Perhaps it would be better for all of us if this were more “newsworthy.” I am tired of hearing about people getting murdered, aren’t you?
I can’t believe I am a lawyer (a mostly stay-at-home mom one raising her five kids on her husbands salary as a foreman carpenter!!!), always thought of as unfeeling by trade, and I have to be the one to say this?
You blame her for taking your tax dollars? What about the billions of dollars the government wastes every year? And if she doesn’t get food stamps, then what? Uncle Sam going to issue us a refund? Don't forget, many woman receiving food stamps are in fact underemployed (minimum to low wage) woman who pay taxes themselves. I feel my time is better spent considering how the price of necessities has risen so dramatically in the last decade while minimum wage has risen less than a dollar.
When you were growing up, things were alot cheaper!
She would only collect anything from a dead father if paternity were established before he was buried.
She was married. She was married sometime after baby number two, the article says. If you actualy read the article, you would know she is fleeing an abusive ex-husband.
I am disgusted I have to breath the same as as someone who would say such demeaning things.
Staples were actually more expensive in the 1970s than they are now on an inflation adjusted basis.
And I’m disgusted to have to wake up early in the morning and go do work I don’t enjoy for half wages because the other half is taken from me to reard welfare brood mares for perpetuating themselves.
There’s disgust to go around and then some.
Parasites.
How about babysitting like all the other 13 year old girls around the country are doing? Granted, she wouldn’t get the big bucks the kids get in the suburbs, but even 3 bucks an hour is better than zero. She could even do it in her mother’s apartment, since Mom’s home.
I still think the world would have been better of if she was sterilized. And I will continue to hold that opinion as long as she continues to live on my tax dollars
When you don’t have the money, you don’t spend it. I spend maybe $10 a month eating out because I don’t have the money to do it more often, because my taxes are allowing this person and people like her to live in a style that I cannot afford. I cannot buy sun screen for my children, it is NOT in the budget. So what? you ask... So what is that I CANNOT COME CLOSE to having the kind of money to spend on the things that she does, and she does not work, AND she seems to think we should be doing more. Maybe I have a so-called middle-class suburban life? I don’t know. Live in a suburb, have mortgage payments. But with inflation, (property taxes went up 31% last year) etc. and being a single parent, I cannot spend the kind of money that she does to feed my lot. No spouse carrying my bag. Yes I blame her and the system that allows it for taking my tax money. This is just one of many places that the government wastes millions of tax dollars every year.
But it truly offends me that I WORK very hard and cannot afford the same things that are being given away as our money in tax dollars. AND the recipients seem to think they have it hard...
Yes, there was arguably a more dramatic housing cost increase in the 1970’s. But see these links discussing how grocery prices have risen in the last decade.
See http://consumerist.com/consumer/cost-of-living/basic-costs-have-increased-dramatically-in-the-last-decade-284347.php ; http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2007/07/15/2784264.htm.
What was demenaing? I think that was a great idea but overly generous. If you can’t feed them, DON’T breed them.
Good for your daughter. I mean that sincerely. My 15 y/o son has been beating the bushes here in west O and as soon as he tells them he’s 15 ( he’s 6’+ and looks older) they tell him he’s too young and it’s not worth it to hire him for the 18 hours a week that the feds restrict the companies to.
Hey, let me tell you, you people are just jelous because you have to bust your asses working. Suckers! let me tell you about my day. Tommorow is my food stamp day. While you all get out of your warm beds to go to that hellhole you work at, I’ll be sleeping till 11 or maybe noon.
I get a free van ride to Wal Mart and its paid for by the goverment. I get $200 in food stamps. I’m going to buy, pizza, sirloin steaks, bags of candy, chips plenty of soda, tv dinners, and all kinds of other goodies.. Oh ya, I can’t buy beer with food stamps, but I can with SSI, so i’m going to get 2 cases.
You see I can buy treats cause my lunch and dinner are delivered by meals on wheels for free.
You people hate me? Well I hate you too, but you are the ones slaving away, so whos the stupid one?
P.S. I pay only $30 a month for subsidizied rent, $12 for utilities and thats it. i have plenty oleft over for Satelite TV with all the movie channels, broadband internet, and an I phone!
Have a nice day haters! :)
Welcome to FR. You signed up today just for that?
Not to worry, Obamba will get his pound of flesh out of you. He’ll probably assign you to the Civilian National Security Force and make you go around confiscating guns. At that point you’ll wish you’d taken that job at McDonald’s when you had the chance.
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