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NPR reports that some people can’t even afford meat:
So Nunez and her daughter are mostly stuck at home.
The rising cost of food means their money gets them about a third fewer bags of groceries — $100 used to buy about 12 bags of groceries, but now it’s more like seven or eight. So they cut back on expensive items like meat, and they don’t buy extras like ice cream anymore. Instead, they eat a lot of starches like potatoes and noodles.
As See-Dubya says: “It’s one thing to hear that on the radio, but it’s another to see it on NPR’s website“
Gloria Nunez has never worked. She says that since her car broke down her daughter can’t look for a job either.
I’d like to know why a woman living off a pension from G.M. (Nunez’s Mom), can’t afford her car payment.
I assumed there is a pension because the article leads off with:
Her father worked at General Motors for 45 years before retiring.
And ends with:
She’s now two car payments behind.
“I’m about to lose my car,” she says on her way to pick up one of her daughters to take her to Toledo. “So then what’s going to happen to us?”
I realize that there are many people that are truly in a world of hurt, but don’t put up an example of what is wrong with our society and expect me to feel sorry for them!
July 18, 2008 - 04:55 PM on July 18th, 2008
There are couple of things here. First off, even if the woman doesn’t get much of a pension from GM (survivor’s benefits might not be much), why isn’t she working? She doesn’t look so old that she can’t get a job. Secondly, exactly how much food does a retiree’s wife need? He worked for GM for 45 years and there are still kids living at home? Not to be nasty, but as one of my shirts on Cafepress says, Food shortages and high prices will succeed where diet and exercise have failed. I would suggest that the daughter get a bike to ride to work. She’s looks way too old to sitting at home mooching off Mom. Why does the phrase “Put down the remote and step away from the Oreos” come to mind?
I can’t see any reason why either of them aren’t out looking for some way to make money other than they’ve got an entitlement mentality. BTW a large number of the women I used to see pushing shopping carts full of food out of the grocery store the day that foodstamps hit looked like these two.
July 18, 2008 - 05:39 PM on July 18th, 2008
Only in America can the poor be obese.
July 18, 2008 - 06:54 PM on July 18th, 2008
BonBon said it all.
I’m glad to be an American with enough self restraint not to be obese.
July 18, 2008 - 08:32 PM on July 18th, 2008
As they say “The best way to get on your feet is to get off your ass”.
July 18, 2008 - 08:35 PM on July 18th, 2008
“I realize that there are many people that are truly in a world of hurt, but don’t put up an example of what is wrong with our society and expect me to feel sorry for them!”
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See, this is why we need Barack Obama and the Democrat Congress! They will increase taxes on the rich then redistribute the wealth to poor folk like these!
Then Ms. Nunez and her daughter can get even fatter…
July 19, 2008 - 12:31 PM on July 19th, 2008
This is why I love Right Voices - SEEING THE BIG PICTURE is worth a thousand ‘pounds’ I mean words. This is real-diculous and pitiful. Those two must weigh a thousand pounds together, well how the hell if they have no MOO LAH can they be so-o fat??? You are RIGHT. . . all of you! BO can see to it everyone gets fat but him and MO!
HOWEVER THEIR POCKET BOOK WILL BE FAT AS FAT CAN BE.
July 19, 2008 - 02:04 PM on July 19th, 2008
I think they are buying more than noodles, looks like those Twinkies are adding up on them. Obviously they have not worked in a while, (not burning those calories girls) Wonder where they find clothes that big?? #1 Funny you would say a LARGE number of women, LARGE women is how to say it, LOL. Love the step away from the Oreo’s example. Well that would be a start, and she is rather large to live at Mom’s - guess Mom can claim her, no one else would.
July 20, 2008 - 12:58 AM on July 20th, 2008
I’ve been unattached for over 11 years. You’d be surprised how nasty women like that get when you tell them “No, I don’t find you attractive.” I can’t count the number of times I’ve been called shallow for telling a woman who outweighs me I’m not interested. A friend on the East Coast described it as wrestling out of your weight class. As I haven’t weighed under 200 lbs in almost 15 years, it’s not that easy for a woman to outweigh me.
July 20, 2008 - 06:38 AM on July 20th, 2008
Sentiments like this and the person below is why we find Liberals in this country so distasteful:
i dont remeber anything written in the formation of the united states that says its basis is for the right to make my money and keep it regardless of the condition of my neighbor….i thought the main reason for this countries formation was to escape the tyranny of elitest, usless, overbearing “i got mine” crowds from dictating how equal men and women where to act and keeping in place oppressive work, govenment, and social ideas and institutions. looks like some are tryng to move this country toward that full circle.
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=PluckForum&plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3ae15df72a-8aa8-47a6-8f43-a6aa0a3f6045Forum%3a64ab95ef-3897-44cb-bc10-461bee6e293dDiscussion%3a3fd0443e-e883-4257-97ad-b62569a88230&plckCategoryCurrentPage=0
This isn’t all this cretin, Jim Smith, proud Oneida had to say. He’s a pip. He decries business moving out of Wisconsin without paying their fair share.
July 20, 2008 - 11:36 PM on July 20th, 2008
Here’s a thoughtful response to any anti corporate hacks out there. “If you don’t like corporations so much, quit your job, and stop buying their products. Go find some homeless guy and have HIM give you a job.”
July 22, 2008 - 06:37 AM on July 22nd, 2008
Load these two porkers into a truck load of other hogs, headed to the slaughter house. Butchers would never know the diffrence.
