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”):
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.
