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Saturday, July 19, 2008

Some Ohioans Starving Because Of High Gas Prices

NPR has a story up about a mother and daughter in Ohio who can’t find jobs, don’t have the money to buy gas to go out and find jobs and because they can’t find jobs are having a problem affording food.

This, unbelievably, is the picture NPR published with its article about the duo (the article is headlined “For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach”):

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Are we really supposed to think that a lack of food is a problem for these two?  And no I’m not making a fat joke here.  Being more than a little chubby myself I don’t have any room to talk, but if you’re going to tell me that high gas prices are making people go hungry maybe its best not to show me a picture like the one above.

As for the inability of these two to get jobs, I think maybe this explains things:

‘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.

So mom dropped out of high school, never even tried to get herself a job and is now claiming she can’t do any sort of work because she’s still “depressed” from a car accident that took place nearly two decades ago.

The daughter has her mom for a role model.

Now I’m a limited government guy, but I’ve always held that we should help those who legitimately cannot help themselves.  But I will never be in favor of people who are poor because they don’t want to help themselves.

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Nunez, 40, has never worked...survive on a $637 Social Security check…

Maybe the reason Social Security is going broke is because it was subverted into a welfare, as well as a retirement program some time ago.



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Proof on July 19, 2008 at 03:59 pm

Wow, looks like they are eating pretty well.


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goon on July 19, 2008 at 04:05 pm
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Nunez, 40, has never worked and has no high school degree.

Hey! Where did you get that picture of me? haha

Depressed about a car accident that happened decades ago? That’s wallowing in self-pity, give her a Darwin award!

Nunez on July 19, 2008 at 04:08 pm

We’ve been told people like these two are “food insecure” and have to eat all they can because they never know when their meal ticket will be taken away.
Unfortunately, that fear is irrational.

Kevin on July 19, 2008 at 04:30 pm

I’m hiring them to do my grocery shopping.
They are obviously experts.

$637 Social Security check and $102 in food stamps.

WOOF on July 19, 2008 at 04:47 pm

Looks like they’ve accumulated enough reserves to hibernate through several months of hard times with no ill effects.


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Spartacus on July 19, 2008 at 06:17 pm
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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.

Let’s do some math here.  She’s 40 now.  Seventeen years ago when she had this accident that left her disabled and depressed she would have been 23.

How did she get from 16, when she dropped out of high school, to 23 without having a job?

I also, I doubt that Social Security and food stamps are the only entitlements these two schlubs are getting.  I bet they get free or discounted housing too and they’re not mentioning it because it’s not really income.

And I bet they raid the local food pantries too.


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Rob on July 19, 2008 at 06:42 pm

How does this fit in with the story that Rob blogged about earlier this week about women that were forced to work as strippers because of the high price of gas.

I’d give them twinkees if they kept their clothes on! 

And why did Rob post pictures on this story but not the other one?

Finally it looks like they definitely need to try out the Atkins diet so I can see how NPR is working hard for that.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on July 19, 2008 at 06:56 pm

I’d give them twinkees if they kept their clothes on!

Whistler: Thanks pal. Now that absinthe is legal for sale here in the states and I’ve never tried it, I spent $65 for a bottle of it this afternoon. I was 1/2 way finished with my first drink and you made me spew. The stuff tastes lousy anyway, but you had to go and do that to me…


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Spartacus on July 19, 2008 at 07:08 pm
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You’ve got to be kidding me! I find it hard to believe they’ve missed any meals. How about stop making excuses and work! There is such as thing as public transportation.

Julia Brown on July 19, 2008 at 07:16 pm
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Now that absinthe is legal for sale here in the states and I’ve never tried it, I spent $65 for a bottle of it this afternoon. I was 1/2 way finished with my first drink and you made me spew. The stuff tastes lousy anyway, but you had to go and do that to me…

Yeah, don’t waste your money on absinthe in the US. It tastes like shit and is missing the wormwood. Why bother drinking it if you aren’t going to trip balls?

Ken on July 19, 2008 at 07:26 pm

Finally it looks like they definitely need to try out the Atkins diet so I can see how NPR is working hard for that.

I would recommend some exercise and the adkins diet.


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goon on July 19, 2008 at 07:31 pm
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This is a typical NPR (we are all responsible for these two) story. I can’t believe that no one out there seems to feel guilty. The pity of it all is that the reporters for the NPR piece see nothing amiss in the “plight” of these two.

Halatbis on July 19, 2008 at 07:44 pm

Yeah, don’t waste your money on absinthe in the US. It tastes like shit and is missing the wormwood. Why bother drinking it if you aren’t going to trip balls?

Ken: According to the label, and printers can print what ever they want to, this brand is imported from France “and is crafted using a full measure of Grande Wormwood”...It’s also 9/16 by content alcohol, which could account for the slight buzz I was feeling, but yes the stuff does taste like I imagined fecal matter would taste like.


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Spartacus on July 19, 2008 at 07:49 pm

Might be the absinthe talking, but I’m kinda turned on by the high beam on the right breast of the one in the pinkish top...anyone got a 50# sack of flour?


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Spartacus on July 19, 2008 at 09:05 pm

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.

This a a pretty typical welfare recipiant in the state of California.

Wing Chun Geologist on July 19, 2008 at 09:54 pm

I think Woof’s on the right track. Hire these tubbies to give seminars on how to stretch your grocery budget.

Only America could have fat poor people.


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Hoss on July 19, 2008 at 10:01 pm
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Ken: According to the label, and printers can print what ever they want to, this brand is imported from France “and is crafted using a full measure of Grande Wormwood”.

Looked up more info on Absinthe. Apparently the whole “tripping” thing is just an urban legend based on 19th century literature. But yeah, it tastes like ass.

Ken on July 19, 2008 at 10:40 pm

Doesn’t look like those two grocery monsters are doing without anything.

By the way, Spartacus....I’ve tried absinthe in Europe and North Africa. I like it. But not $65 dollars a bottle’s worth.


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Pilgrim on July 20, 2008 at 09:05 am
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What is this country coming to when two fat porkers like this are starving.  I couldn’t hold back my tears on this sad story.

Bobby on July 20, 2008 at 04:03 pm
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You guys and NPR missed a major problem with the point of this article.  All
joking aside (and yes, I laughed my ass off when I saw that photo!), what in the
hell does mamma porker need gas for?  She doesn’t work! Gas can go to $10/gal and only affect her grocery bill.  But as mentioned by others above, she does stretch her food dollar as well as she stretches her spandex shorts.

Michael K. on July 20, 2008 at 07:30 pm
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