For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach ['What's Going To Happen To Us?' ..........]

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For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach

by Yuki Noguchi

All Things Considered, July 17, 2008 · A generation ago, the livelihood of Gloria Nunez's family was built on cars.

Her father worked at General Motors for 45 years before retiring. Her mother taught driver's education. Nunez and her six siblings grew up middle class.

Things have changed considerably for this Ohio family.

Nunez's van broke down last fall. Now, her 19-year-old daughter has no reliable transportation out of their subsidized housing complex in Fostoria, 40 miles south of Toledo, to look for a job.

Nunez and most of her siblings and their spouses are unemployed and rely on government assistance and food stamps. Some have part-time jobs, but working is made more difficult with no car or public transportation.

[OldMissileer]

Only in America do morbid obesity and "poverty" go hand in hand.

A similar statement was written by Victor Belenko, the Soviet MIG-25 pilot who flew to Japan with his fighter, in his book MIG Pilot.

After his debriefings he traveled around the US and noticed that our poor people had severe weight problems and better living conditions than many people of means in the Soviet Union.

He wrote that we had reached a greater level of Socialism in the US than in the Soviet Union and other communist countries.

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What would this country have been like if we had these types back in the days of people packing up and moving west? Good Lord.

Well, the Oregon Trail would probably be the Oregon Canyon after all that mass went hoofing through, but other than that.....

[Dianna]

This entire extended family has NO life skills at all. Without someone holding their hands and solving their problems they will accomplish nothing.

I have neighbors like this. One is ignorant, but very willing to work and learn. My husband and I do anything we can to help her. The other is ignorant and learning to do better is way too much work. We ignore her unless there is a safety issue.

[coop71]

LOL. They both have a face and body meant for radio.

[dljordan]

“Used Bicycle: $30.”

What brand of bike is going to carry that? You’d have to have a special seat too.

[Marie]

Being fat doesn’t mean you are well nourished. You can be overweight and deficient in calcium, vit D, all your B’s, etc. You can gain weight with nothing but carbs or fat, by eating foods with tons of calories that have no nutritious value.

[Clemenza]

Veggies are NOT pricey. I can buy carrots for $1.90 a bunch, get five ears of corn at the local farmer's market for $1.50. Asparagus can get pricey, but even it is a relative bargain at $4.99.

Farmer's markets in my area are cheaper than the supermercado, and even they take the WIC card these days (no, I am NOT on foodstamps, but they do advertise that they take them).

[driftless2]

I would bet that there must have been a little meat at the grocery store they ate. I don’t mean the grocery where they ate at, I mean they must have eaten the whole grocery store.

[mylife]

Those gals are sooooo big...I bet they have skinny girls orbiting around them.

[Little Ray]

Dunno.
I can do good things with milk, eggs, rice, and beans...

[Darnright]

>Pictures do not lie. Walker Evans photographed the starving and drawn faces that resulted from both the dust bowl and the Great Depession. If the leftist MSM propaganda is looking for poster children for ecomomic hard times, they gonna have to keep on looking.<

Your post reminded me of Dorothea Lange's famous image of a migrant woman. Here's actual American poverty:

[Marie]

Veggies are NOT pricey. I can buy carrots for $1.90 a bunch, get five ears of corn at the local farmer's market for $1.50. Asparagus can get pricey, but even it is a relative bargain at $4.99.

I do agree, but most people don't know how to shop anymore. They buy the things that fill them up and skip fresh ingredients.

I'm canning and freezing my world now days and I *love* the farmer's market! I'm offering my FRG ladies in canning and freezing and so far, nobody's taken me up on that yet. People just plain don't know how to shop and cook anymore and they go for the easy meal.

I'm not saying that these folks have an excuse, I'm just saying that it's not as cheap as the grains.

But I'm sure these two aren't eating cornmeal with butter. (That would cost next to nothing.) They're probably hitting the Hostess harder than anyone should.

[Marie]

There's nothing as beautiful as quart jars filled with *food*!

The kids and I are butchering our first steer this fall. I can't wait! :-)

[JennysCool]

Now THAT’S funny!

[Marie]

I could feed 10 people good on 10 bucks if I had to

Please share! (I'm always looking for tips!)

The kids and I are canning and putting up our own meat. I'm making a shopping list for Sam's Club in September and I'd appreciate any tips you have.

[Marie]

Dave Ramsey, please pick up the white courtesy phone.Love Dave! :-)

[Biblebelter]

Thanks for the post. With video, the photojournalism of still photography has become a lost art. Color can be so distracting. That picture gets to the heart of the matter and tells us so much. But the genius of that picture is that it expresses the misery of their circumstance, yet it captures both the dignity and humanity of the subjects, and in no way is it demeaning or degrading to the subjects.

[mylife]

Its called soup and bread

[mylife]

[Darnright]

>But the genius of that picture is that it expresses the misery of their circumstance, yet it captures both the dignity and humanity of the subjects, and in no way is it demeaning or degrading to the subjects.<

Well said. And, looking at that mother, old beyond her years, you can see what the years of hard work had done to her. That photo is one of the most powerful taken during the Dust Bowl era.

It’s hard to have much sympathy for an obese person who could not even take advantage of a free high school education, much less hold down a paying job.