Food crisis, global depression worsens
Not only are people cutting back on organic food, but now 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.
It’s one thing to hear that on the radio, but it’s another to see it on NPR’s website:
Perspective.
I’m telling you, it’s getting hard out there.
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{Post by See-Dubya. A tipster tells me Jonah Goldberg linked this first.}
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I heard these two decided to start a hunger strike to protest for an increase in food stamps.
It lasted fifteen minutes.
On July 21st, 2008 at 5:17 pm, Rob said:
Sorry Rob, no points for you this time.
You might have a leg to stand on, if I were the only person here criticizing your bald-faced bigotry.
I’m not, and you know it full well.
I know its very late on the thread, but here’s more to read on the subject of eating on a budget.
Oh so now Nose you are making fun of people without legs??
And Nose, you are accusing me of only liking people with beards?
Oh, you stick your nose in too far, toooooo far!
Irish Rose- how does a person become obese without consuming more calories than they burn?
Your insulting statement deserves an explanation.
When they sit around the house, they sit around the house.
Sorry, but you are levelling a personal attacks when you say he is the most vile bigot here.
I admire your will to better yourself, but you’re still way off base with this one. Morbidly obese people complaining that the food isn’t good enough on the public dole is just wrong.
Also, if you’ll notice, bigotry gets shot down pretty quickly around here. A few irreverent jokes does not constitute bigotry.
On July 21st, 2008 at 2:21 pm, MtsEdge said:
I see plenty of evidence there that these women are trying to rise above their difficult circumstances. And I see very little evidence that they’re making “poor choices”. Quite the contrary, they’re faced with a very difficult set of circumstances and they’re doing the best that they can to survive while trying to better their situation.
I also don’t see where they’re “whining” that they don’t get enough bennies or can’t afford ice cream. I don’t see where they’re asking for “more” handouts.
They simply responded to a reporters’ inquiry by stating that they have had to cut back on things like meat and ice cream to make ends meet.
The respondents here are the ones who saw two overwieght people who are utilizing public assistance, and just couldn’t resist rushing in to “fill in the blanks” with fat jokes and moral judgements.
How do you know that these women do not conduct themselves with grace and courage?
I’m saying that these women are facing some serious barriers to employment, and some very serious physical challenges… they live in an area that is economically depressed, there are no jobs or very few jobs for the number of people who are out of work, and they have no way to get to jobs that are farther away without adequate transportation.
The mother never worked because she stayed at home to raise her young children more than likely. This is not unusual for women her age. Whatever plans she may have had for her life down the road were derailed by an accident that resulted in a legitimate disability (those of you who suggest that the woman is slumming it on disability seem to have no idea what a difficult process it is to actually qualify for disability payments, it’s not a matter of simply going down and filling out an application. It’s a lengthy process that usually involves multiple doctors, massive documentation and years of paperwork. If the DSS says that she’s legitimately disabled, then I have no reason to believe that she isn’t).
The daughter is trying very hard to take care of the family… she has an education. She clearly employable, she has worked several jobs and continues to seek employement. She’s working hard to pursue higher education to better their circumstances but she is hampered by lack of transportation. She could choose to simply give up, have another child or two and live on welfare and food stamps, but she doesn’t see that as an option and she’s doing whatever she can to stay off the dole. She should be applauded for this, not condemned.
But none of this matters of course, because they’re fat.
And fat people are not deserving of respect.
Moving? It costs a lot of money to pick up and move, even if you have transportation, and these women have neither. They’re stuck.
As for their weight, of course they’re overweight. But there are a lot of factors that contribute to obesity… stress, depression, medical problems like diabetes and thyroid disease, a genetic tendency towards obesity (which I strongly suspect in this case), an inability to excercise properly because of physical problems, poor nutrition, little or no access to prescription medications, good medical care and/or dietary counseling.
The truth is, there isn’t a single commentator here who knows why these women are overweight. They simply assume.
The assume that these two women are gluttonous pigs who are too lazy to get off the couch, and they make cruel, cutting comments to that effect. They make comments that these women “choose” poverty and inflict suffering upon themselves by making poor choices, when they know absolutely nothing about this families’ circumstances.
The truth, is that there is a STRONG link between poverty and obesity in the Western world. Here in the West, our poor must for the most part subsist on a diet of highly processed, high sodium, hi fat, chemically laden foods if they’re going to have something to eat at all. And here’s the kicker: if they don’t get enough to eat throughout the day, then the body goes into starvation mode and they pile on even more weight.
The end result of this ugly cycle is morbid obesity and very frequently, an early death. A person in this situation “looks like” they’re getting enough to eat, but appearances are deceiving.
Here’s the truth about poverty and obesity: the wrong foods will kill you by slowly poisoning your body, just as surely as not enough food will cause you to die from starvation.
I have a lot of information that I could post here for those who are really interested in learning the truth about the link between poverty and obesity, but I doubt that many here would read the information even if I were to post it. It’s just too much fun to make jokes about the “fatties”.
My last post on this subject.
I will say on the way out that Michelle is taking a real hit on her crediblity, because of the way that some of her commentators are behaving on this thread… there are links to this discussion all over the place.
If you respect Michelle, you might try dialing your ugly anti-fat bigotry down a notch.
And let us remember, in memory of the once great race baiter and bigot himself the Rev-uh-rund Jesse-a Jackson, and that light in the loafers Lindsey Grahamnisty, and the most sanctimonious Irish Nose that calling someone a racist or bigot doesn’t mean they are one.
I do not accept these politically correct labels that the liberal left love to lob. I prefer to think of myself simply as…“RIGHT”… in every way.
Applaud her for not having kids to increase her leech income. That’s a different way of looking at it. Using that logic, we should be thanking rapists for not killing their victims also.
Thank you, Irish Rose, for only irritating me instead of completely pissing me off.
Quite the diatribe. I won’t bother picking it apart for inaccuracies in the actual article and your version of it that you are trying to promote and defend. It would be too exhausting. Maybe you should go back and read the article again and please take off those rose colored glasses this time.
Why? I linked Kroger’s ads for the store where these ladies live and they had chicken, ground beef, fruits and veggies all at reasonable prices. Someone here linked to a couple that lived on less than the amount alloted for food stamps and found the food nourishing. People here in the west may make those choices but you should check out what that couple ate. They give lists and costs. You’d be surprised.
I don’t know these ladies or their personal problems, but I know NPR and others of their ilk have no trouble pimping the pitiful (using tax dollars) to try and bring about their goals.
’nuff said…
Look, IR, my point was simple. You seem to be drawing moral equivalence between the scenario you describe as your own situation, where you say that you suffered so greatly and yet rose above, vs. the situation of these two individuals who have nothing to show for years of existence on the public dime. Not an effort to better themselves, but rather excuses made.
Please do not accuse me of “anti-fat” bigotry. You obviously missed the point of my earlier post.
I promised myself I wouldn’t say anymore, I just can’t help it.
One can only hope.
Granted, this is Michelle’s site but it was posted by see-dubya in case you didn’t notice. Furthermore, of the 8 trackbacks, if you bother to follow them (which I did), only one has the opposite view of the majority of commenters on this site. And Surprise! Surprise! that one follows your talking points to a T.
As far as credibility, I’d vote for Michelle and see-dubya any day.
Sheesh. 400+ comments.
Bush’s fault.At least one of the trackbacks links to a blauthor* who thinks Michelle wrote this post. see-dubya needs to put his name in bold, flashing, 128-font letters at the beginning of each of his entries, apparently.
I’d say this is my last comment on this thread, but I ain’t promisin’ nuthin.’
*I thought I just made up a new word, but I see that Google has 631 references to it already. Dang. Maybe I’ll be 632.
To atxc: You and I were referring to the same trackback. Would’ve helped if I checked before I last commented.
Is there a point to be made by putting our trackback observations together? No, there couldn’t be. No.
I heard they ate the food stamps because it said food on it.
I want to live in a country where the poor people are fat. No, obese!
Guys, (oh, sorry I am probably being a biggot to women per our resident leberal troll irish rose), don’t even bother with rose. She claims she is a true conservative but look at all her posts on this board. SHe has yet to post anything any sane person would consider conservative. In fact, I think she is a liberla living in a conservative body. 95% of all her posts end wiht her calling everyone on this board a “fascist” “biggot” or “racist”. And the occasional “neo nazi”. Just look it up. She is about as conservative as grahmanesty or mcamensty (heck I even give mccain credit for being more conservative than her). Frankly, rose exemplifies everything that is wrong with the GOP these days. That proverbial “tent” was opened a little to much.
Finally, she sits around compalinging about “how hard it is” for her. However, as pointed out, she has internet. I bet she has cable, video consoles, and a big screen tv too. Yet she complains about how hard it is to feed her kids. Its called prioritizing. People like her (oops biggot again) are irritating to no end.
WC, et al., someone shared this with me, and I thought I’d pass it on regarding your comments ‘cuz it seems relevant.
“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.” (Prov. 26:4)
Kinda reminds me of this thread with IR.
From the trackback that Irish rose says is bad mouthing MM
I can’t believe they don’t have enough disposable income for drugs and alcohol. what a horrible, insensitive society we must live in.
I just want to know why are the poor people in this country, the only ones in the world that are hugely fat, own cars and live in houses. Can we trade the poor people in Ethiopia, Dafur and India for our fat, lazy and stupid poor people? Please? I’ll give one of them a job, I promise.