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For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach ['What's Going To Happen To Us?' ..........]
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Posted on 07/18/2008 11:44:51 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: learnedhelplessness; obesity; stupidlazyignorant; therealobamagirls; welfare
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To: Little Ray
Dunno. I can do good things with milk, eggs, rice, and beans...

That's my point. If you restricted food stamps to staples only they would complain regardless of the fact that it would be better for them and taste good too.

161 posted on 07/18/2008 4:04:54 PM PDT by Soliton (Investigate, study, learn, then express an opinion)
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To: Sub-Driver
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.

No, working is more dificult when you are a pile of lard that cannot reliably lift even 25 pounds for 8 hours.

These parasites could use some starvation.


162 posted on 07/18/2008 4:09:31 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (A citizen using a weapon to shoot a criminal is the ultimate act of independence from government.)
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To: Dianna

See my post #152. I’m offering classes in food preparation and I’ve got no takers. Heck, I’m offering to carpool with them to the farmer’s market and they won’t come.

Right now I’ve got $100 in groceries sitting here from a local church for two wives who “couldn’t afford food”. It’s been a week and they haven’t showed up to pick it up. They were supposed to come to pick it up today. (It was their third appointment to do so.) What was their excuse this time?

Because they had to go *shopping*!!!


163 posted on 07/18/2008 4:13:46 PM PDT by Marie (ANT: "The grasshoppers can screw themselves.")
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To: Marie

When you slaughter that cow save them bones and roast them then use em for soup stock.


164 posted on 07/18/2008 4:32:35 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife
Don't worry! I'm cutting the bones into pot-sized lengths. Any meat that's not fit for human consumption will go into pet food. Heck, we're even having the hide tanned.

We eat every part of the buffalo in *our* house! lol!

165 posted on 07/18/2008 4:36:50 PM PDT by Marie (ANT: "The grasshoppers can screw themselves.")
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To: Marie

There ya go. :)


166 posted on 07/18/2008 4:37:58 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666
I see they could afford earrings, tattoos and fancy sunglasses.

Boo freaking who.

They already live on food stamps, subsidized housing and who knows how much else government handouts. I think I'll save my sympathy for people who actually deserve it.

167 posted on 07/18/2008 4:49:00 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Sub-Driver
They could clean houses but first they would have to lose some weight in order to be able to do the job. I doubt they are interested in doing either of those things though. They just want more handouts and sympathy. Instead of getting their pictures taken and complaining maybe they could put more effort into looking for a job or moving where there are jobs!
168 posted on 07/18/2008 4:56:10 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Sub-Driver

Wow, they already have enough meat in their combined panniculi to feed a family of six for several months.


169 posted on 07/18/2008 7:47:42 PM PDT by amishman
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To: petercooper

you know the saying- “cameras add 10 lbs.”....

So just how many cameras were pointed at these two???


170 posted on 07/18/2008 9:55:32 PM PDT by Strzelec
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh my God!

I honestly thought this was a joke.


171 posted on 07/18/2008 10:05:21 PM PDT by Scarchin (Romney for VEEP)
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To: Centurion2000
No, working is more dificult when you are a pile of lard that cannot reliably lift even 25 pounds for 8 hours.

Meeting your your 200 hour-pound work requirement would only take the pair of them them 20 minutes.

172 posted on 07/18/2008 10:42:40 PM PDT by CGTRWK
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To: kalee
She ws 23 when she had the accident. How old is the daughter? If she was born after the accident..... Too depressed to work, but not too depressed to _____.

The junior whale is 19, born when the mother was roughly 21.

The senior whale was 23 when she was supposedly traumatized and left unable to work - and had never worked prior to the accident either.

The face of the modern Democratic Party.

173 posted on 07/18/2008 10:47:24 PM PDT by CGTRWK
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To: Marie

Can I have the hangers?


174 posted on 07/19/2008 4:58:03 AM PDT by doodad
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To: 88keys

Starving in Ohio ping.
Hi cuz!


175 posted on 07/19/2008 5:42:50 AM PDT by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: andy58-in-nh
".....She says a car accident 17 years ago left her depressed and disabled,...."

My military service, 35 years ago, left me depressed and 30% disabled and I have always worked!!


176 posted on 07/19/2008 10:00:58 AM PDT by Islander7 ("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
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To: doodad
Can I have the hangers?

???

177 posted on 07/19/2008 10:33:03 AM PDT by Marie (ANT: "The grasshoppers can screw themselves.")
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To: Marie

Hanger steaks. Just joking as there is only one per cow. Make sure you get it and cook it bistro style with frites. MMMMMMM.


178 posted on 07/19/2008 11:45:31 AM PDT by doodad
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To: Sub-Driver

NPR....it’s all about the irony.


179 posted on 07/19/2008 6:43:39 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Fire mission!)
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To: tgslTakoma

>I know I’ll be called a hater for this... but from your “blowup” of the photo, it looks to me like daughter has a tattoo on her right forearm/wrist area.<

Amazing you were able to look at the picture long enough to notice a tattoo.

If I had done so, this reply would have been written on a Braille writer.


180 posted on 07/19/2008 7:26:12 PM PDT by Moltke (Generally silent)
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