Posted on 07/08/2014 2:00:48 PM PDT by ETL 2
Sara Bareilles played softly through the surround-sound speakers of my husband’s 2003 Mercedes Kompressor as I sat idling at a light. I’d never been to this church before, but I could see it from where I was, across from an old park, abandoned in the chilly September air. The clouds hung low as I pulled the sleek, pewter machine into the lot. But I wasn’t going to pray or attend services. I was picking up food stamps.
Even then, I couldn’t quite believe it. This wasn’t supposed to happen to people like me.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Barack the Magic Negro waved his wand and “allowed us to crawl our way out of the hole.”
You didn’t crawl anywhere. You climbed on the backs of working people and future generations and they carried you.
>>And at the end of the piece we learn it’s purpose. FU, Darlena.
I can’t agree more!
Baraq had a Chrysler 300 before he became POTUS.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/26/autos/barack-obama-chrysler-300c/
I drive mine to Wal-Mart and Kroger.”
I drive my 89 560 convertible to Kroger and Sam’s Club. I tried to sell it last year but got no good offers. It is fun to drive on a nice open highway since the big V8 is a lot of engine for a small car.
No more emissions tests, so that is a good thing.
What state still hands out stamps anymore? I question this story.
Mine’s that five cylinder turbo-diesel.
I drive my Lincoln Town Car to work to pay for her food stamps...............
“Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends!”
(Janis Joplin)
I’m sure she had an EBT card. “Food stamps” is just a synonym these days.
They just bought the older girl a car for her 16th birthday but won’t tell us peasants what kind it is.
A healthy reaction. You ARE supposed to hate it. Hate it with every fiber of your being.
“Once upon a time, one would sell the Mercedes long before picking up the food stamps...”
In the article, she says many people gave her that advice, but her and her husband refused. Then they want us to be sympathetic?!?
Nope, sorry. I still have my job and I have never even dreamed of buying a Mercedes. I have no sympathy for limousine leeches.
Why sell it? Did you read the article?
“I drive mine to Wal-Mart and Kroger.”
And then you pay for your own food. And that’s the way it should be.
I saw that.
(I think the thread was pulled, I couldn’t fine my response to it. Admin Mod seems to be leery of snarking on Malaria and Sharia.)
It shouldn’t be too difficult to spot a 2014_____ in a caravan with 4 black Suburbans on the way to Sidwell Friends.
A 2003 Supercharged Benz could probably have been sold in 2008, and a used Civic purchased, with money left over.
A Supercharged Benz is expensive to maintain, and not nearly as reliable as a Honda Civic.
Plus, it drinks fuel.
But what I learned there will never leave me. We didn’t deserve to be poor, any more than we deserved to be rich. Poverty is a circumstance, not a value judgment. I still have to remind myself sometimes that I was my harshest critic. That the judgment of the disadvantaged comes not just from conservative politicians and Internet trolls. It came from me, even as I was living it.No one deserves to be rich? She's a perfect Obamatron Socialist.
Lol,, I could see him in a Fiat.
You can tweet her at @parenttwin
This part really irks me:
“Once, a girl at the register actually stood up for me when an older mother of three saw the coupons and started chastising my purchase of root beer. They were “buy two, get one free” at a dollar a pop.
“Surely, you don’t need those,” she said. “WIC pays for juice for you people.”
The girl, who couldn’t have been more than 19, flashed her eyes up to my face and saw my grimace as I white-knuckled the counter in front of me, preparing my cold shoulder.
“Who are you, the soda police?” she asked loudly. “Anyone bother you about the pound of candy you’re buying?””
No, of course nobody bothers people about junk food they are buying with their own money! When you beg money from the rest of us, though, you had better be spending it on what you really need, and not luxuries. If you can afford to buy the luxuries, then you don’t need my money to do it.
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