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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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check the pic...........
1 posted on 07/18/2008 11:48:19 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

They could live for months on what they have stored up.


2 posted on 07/18/2008 11:50:01 AM PDT by DarthVader (Liberal Democrats are the party of EVIL whose time of judgement has come.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I would think just about everything in the kitchen cabinet is out of reach for those two. ;)


3 posted on 07/18/2008 11:50:37 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." -- Robert Heinlein)
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To: DarthVader

Holy Toledo!


4 posted on 07/18/2008 11:50:43 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Sub-Driver

NPR does more harm than good to their cause of beating McCain in Ohio with this profile - every reader who sees that picture is going to be rolling their eyes in disgust.


5 posted on 07/18/2008 11:52:09 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." -- Robert Heinlein)
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To: Sub-Driver

They’re eating something...


6 posted on 07/18/2008 11:52:28 AM PDT by Coffee200am ("We should all be living in mud huts and riding bicycles to avoid killing the polar bears..."/s)
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To: Sub-Driver
Each of them weighs easily over 300.

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

7 posted on 07/18/2008 11:53:07 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Geez, they haven’t missed any meals despite being in self-imposed poverty.


8 posted on 07/18/2008 11:53:22 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

Get out of Dodge(Toledo). Head for Tennessee to get a job with VW in a right to work state. When the jobs dry up..you got to move. Sorry ladies, but get on the Greyhound and head south. Or try OK..they have very low unemployment and the oil industry is booming.


9 posted on 07/18/2008 11:53:35 AM PDT by Oldexpat (Drill Here, Drill There..we must drill everywhere.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Hernandez received her high school diploma and has had several jobs in recent years. But now, because fewer restaurants and stores are hiring, she says she finds it hard to find a job.

I would suggest community college training in a productive field of study...and possibly slimming down a bit. And yes, with the limited income they have, grants and subsidized loans would be available to them.

Stop making excuses and just go for it.

10 posted on 07/18/2008 11:54:19 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Bulls and bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.)
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To: DarthVader
They could live for months a couple of years on what they have stored up.

There...fixed it.

11 posted on 07/18/2008 11:55:07 AM PDT by mort56
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To: Sub-Driver

Used Bicycle: $30.
Work Clothes: $50.
Losing the Spare Tire around your abdomen: Priceless


12 posted on 07/18/2008 11:55:32 AM PDT by research99
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To: Sub-Driver

Definitely time to go on a peanut butter and celery diet for a couple weeks. No more drive thru’s for those folks.


13 posted on 07/18/2008 11:55:43 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Sub-Driver
check the pic...........

...just damn...

14 posted on 07/18/2008 11:56:14 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (John McCain is Lucy, McCainiacs are Charlie Brown, and the football is a secure border.)
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To: Sub-Driver
From the article:

People tell Nunez her daughter could get more money in public assistance if she had a child. "A lot of people have told me, 'Why don't your daughter have a kid?'"

15 posted on 07/18/2008 11:56:22 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Sub-Driver

You’re fracking kidding me, right?


16 posted on 07/18/2008 11:56:51 AM PDT by Doohickey (SSN: One ship, one crew, one screw.)
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To: Sub-Driver

WTF?

17 posted on 07/18/2008 11:57:05 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Sub-Driver

They could get a job filling in for the Hippos at the Toledo Zoo.


18 posted on 07/18/2008 11:57:26 AM PDT by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar.)
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To: wideawake

Muhahah, its like I told a Third World Freeper who was running down America, Okay,...how bout this,..all of Poor People.. are FAT!


19 posted on 07/18/2008 11:57:38 AM PDT by redstateconfidential (If you are the smartest person in the room,you are hanging out with the wrong people.)
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To: Sub-Driver
I'm sure I'm not the first to make this observation, but when the Soviet Union existed (much like China now) food was always becoming more scarce and hard to find and afford. After The Soviet Union failed, food became more plentiful and easier to obtain after time.

Now, we have a Congress pushing us closer and closer to Socialism, and food is getting pricier and (supposedly) harder to find.

20 posted on 07/18/2008 11:58:31 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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