In the United States of American starving people do not look like starving people elsewhere. Every time I read a newspaper or watch or listen to the news lately, I see reports about poor Americans that cannot afford food because of the economic downturn. The only problem I have with these reports is the people that are presented as the American impoverish, they just don't look hungry to me. They do not look like the real starving and impoverish that really do exists. In parts of Central America, Africa, Southeast Asia and in Parts of Europe, there are poor people that might not live to see tomorrow. Below is a photo from a recent such news report about people in the USA that cannot afford food.
Angelica Hernandez (left) and her mother, Gloria Nunez, struggle to make ends meet on a very limited budget.
Don't they look like they are just starving? Do you feel like sending them money for more food? Here is the interesting article from the NPR Website that goes along with the picture above:
"For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach
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.
Low-income families in Ohio say they are particularly hard-hit by the changes in the economy, according to a new poll conducted by NPR, The Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health. Two-thirds of lower-income respondents, or 66 percent, say paying for gas is a serious problem because of recent changes in the economy. Nearly half of low-income Ohioans, or 47 percent, say that getting a well-paying job or a raise in pay is also major problem.
'I Just Can't Get A Job'
Nunez, 40, has never worked and has no high school degree. She says a car accident 17 years ago left her depressed and disabled, incapable of getting a job. Instead, she and her daughter, Angelica Hernandez, survive on a $637 Social Security check and $102 in food stamps.
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. Even if she could, she says it's particularly hard to imagine how she'll keep it. She says she needs someone to give her a lift just to get to an interview. And with gas prices so high, she's not sure she could afford to pay someone to drive her to work every day.
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?'"
They both reject that as a plan.
"I'm trying to get a job," Hernandez says. "I just can't get a job."
Hernandez says she's trying to get training to be a nurse's assistant, but without her own set of wheels or enough money to pay others for gas, it hasn't been easy.
'What's Going To Happen To Us?'
Most of their extended family lives in the same townhouse complex. The only employer within walking distance is a ThyssenKrupp factory that makes diesel engine parts. That facility, which employs 400 people, is shutting down and moving to Illinois next year.
The only one with a car is Irma Hernandez, Nunez's mother. Hernandez says that with a teenage son still at home, the cost of feeding him and sending him to school is rising, and she can no longer pay for the car.
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?"
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."
The Source is an Article from NPR.org
What? They want more money from Welfare to feed them? They want to raise tax rates to feed these fat cows? The people at NPR are morons, its like they didn't see the photo of their example before they published this stupid article. The NPR people are fucking insane if they think that tax payers are going to stand for more government programs to feed obese people that weigh over 300 lbs. They got fat living off the backs of people out there working hard supporting their families and paying their taxes.
I say take away her $637 Social Security check and $102 in food stamps and make her find a damn job. There are people who really do need help and they do not like like fat pigs. And I do not dislike fat people, I dislike fat people who complain that they do not get enough food. blogywoodbabes.blogspot.com
