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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lol how big of a screen do you have , it might work it i use my 54 inch lcd tv .
lol don’t snivle about not being able to afford food if you are the size of a midsize car .
I dont think its that, as much as getting the local zoo to send Jumbo over is a time consuming and costly process, as well as the fact that she doesnt wanna carry a kid for 2 years at a time.
And in local news, residents are reporting large bovine-like creatures roaming the neighborhood, despite the local zoo claiming that all their hippos are accounted for. Our reporter on the scene seems to have gone missing in action. More news as it comes to hand.
wrong on so many levels….(snort)
You gave birth to a teenaged son????
(i had to, it was right there!!!)
Why did they include a picture of 2 1975 Buicks fighting over a parking spot? That does not go with the story at all.
sonofdy -
“birth”? or “girth”!
This song goes out to the two hungry gals from Ohio.
Fat Bottom Girls
Just one of them? I’d say more like all 72. Tho I don’t know about the “virgin” thing.
dunkin donuts take foodstamps?
Well ya got me, I didn’t give birth to anything (well maybe the occasional errant thought) but my wife did give birth to something that grew into a teenage son.
So between the “Dad can I borrow your car and have some money” and the “can’t you do something about your son” comments, I get severely depressed. Can I have my check now?
On the way!!!
BTW on the teenaged son thig, I feel it, but my daughter is bi-polar so imagine your hassles and triple it. We actualy had her first pregnancy scare at 12. Thats right TWELVE. Dealing with the mentaly ill is HARD.
Looking at the photo gave me a hiatal hernia and constriction, impeding the swallowing of food in a chronic attack of nutrient aversion.
I can has paychek now?
Okay, I’m late to the post, and I just have to say “shame on all of you!” I’ve battled my weight for years — just started on a diet — and all of these comments are totally disgusting, demeaning, unfeeling, and simply pathetic. humph!!
Okay — JUST KIDDING!!! I’m LMAO at all of the hilarity! Oh…. my…. God!! Yes, I *did* just start a diet, but Holy Cow!!
(*snort*) I feel soooo much better about myself now. Maybe later I’ll be outraged about the abuse of our hard-earned money, but this is just too funny right now!
sambo said:
Not all of us!
This is the first summer I haven’t worked since I was 16 (I’m 22 now), and I’ve been going crazy. I hate it.
Just remember… no matter how bad it seems, there’s always some of us who can–and do–hold our own.
Wight,
I has no more cheeseburgerz. This cake will have to do.
As a half warning, evilmilk is funny stuff, but there can be some offensive stuff there. this just happens to be something less harmful and more funz.
How much methane are these two producing. Someone needs to call the global warming police.
Can’t believe they posted that pic.
Libs are so dumb, aren’t they?
Can you imagine the huge amount of flatulence they must generate? All at taxpayer expense, of course. Need to capture all that gas.
Didn’t even have to listen to NPR to get this thrill.
God I love this.
I meant in that family Jellibean. Keep your chin up and your shoulders back. and good luck to you.
If you’re feeling better about yourself, then you obviously don’t need a government check.
Now go buy yourself some Haagendaas and watch TV so you can put pounds on so you can get that check. Hurry, celulite’s a-wastin’.
**grats on the new diet, gl. just stick with what you’re doing, exercise, and stay positive.
I’m sure they meant to include him in the photo of the starved but the photog didn’t think to pack the wide-angle lens for the shoot.
(Oh, this is just so mockworthy!)
How could that woman teach driver’s ed? She’d never fit behind the wheel of a car.
I’ve had some bi-polar friends, so I may not feel your pain but I understand it.
Put yourself on the dole, and take half of my ice cream. You need it more than I.
And Lan, keep up with the diet, just don’t let your case worker know. Stuff some pillows under your shirt when you pick up your check.
Sambo, the “work ethic” may have died with the generation before the most recent two. Granpa was a GM worker for 45 years, which is not dispositive but has been known to result in a sense of entitlement, which in his kids’ generation may have transferred from GM to Uncle Sam.
These folks would have to walk to downtown, about two miles, to have a plethora of job opportunities. People do it, and they probably would benefit. If the 19-year-old worked for minimum wage, she could double the family income even after taxes and probably even a health insurance premium.
Taylork, what is this “Soylent Green” you speak of? It does sound very environmental and good for Mother Earth. Nyum nyum. Very, very tasty. What? Oh, no! Soylent Green is liberallllllllllllllls!!
She doesn’t need to . . .there’s a back seat.
That photo is emblematic of why I love America. In this country, the poor are fat. In certain others, they’re carrion.
TMKeith said:
I just spit out my lunch all over the computer screen when I read that one. I’m sure these two could go months without eating, living off there own fat!This is liberalism at it’s best…a mental disorder!!
WALTERC, I just pity the poor SOB who marries her.
Are you talking Chap and lgm?
Is this what they mean by expanding welfare rolls?
I’ll be here all week. Please tip your waitress.
I believe he specified “friends”
I’m laughing so hard I’m crying.
Seriously though, I know there are some desperate people out there, but is it even physically possible to impregnate her??
mchristian -
There isn’t enough butter in the world for the rolls in that picture.
Imagine what your clotheswasher looks and sounds like when it goes into a spin cycle with a load waaaay out of balance.
Then imagine one of these….ballerinas…doing a pirhouette.
Ewwwwww…
I’ve never met either one of them, Sambo,(that I know of). . .then again, lgm sounds a lot like my brother in law. Hmmm.
Well let’s not introduce her to my kid.
I would do that to anyone I liked.
opps would = would not
i’m also reminded of something involving phone books in china and a person named Chin.
I for one am outraged that people here would not see the true cause of their suffering… the fact that times are so tough that they had to go from buying a semi full of ice cream to just a couple of gallons a week.
Seriously this has got to be the funniest thing Ive seen on the internets in quite some time. Hopefully someone forwarded the link to McCain via telegraph dispatch!
I think their shadows weigh more than I do.
First the disclaimers: I am NOT a liberal and I don’t believe in a pass for laziness. That being said…
In the US, there’s a high correlation between obesity and poverty– NOT because “poverty” now comes with cable TV, but because Ramen noodles at 10 for $1.00 are cheaper, more filling, store longer, and are easier to prepare than veggies at $2.79/lb. Hungry on the go? Unless you’ve brought your own whole-wheat pita bread or a banana, you’re going to be eating cheese crackers or grabbing a 300-cal. candy bar. I’m in grad school; there’s a reason I know this (and a reason my fridge is full of apples and pita bread).
Ironically, some assistance such as WIC will not pay for the healthier foods, because they are considered luxury items. You can get a box of Sugar-Frosted Chemical Bites for $4.00, and that’s covered, but a box of Kashi GoLean– which has whole grains, 13g. of protein, and a lot more vitamins and minerals– is Right Out.
I guess I’m going to have to go back and read all the posts. How it got from eating noodles and potatoes to giving birth to a teenage son or impregnating someone is beyond me. TGIF!!!!!
HUH?
Should read….
They don’t buy extra
s likeice cream anymore…just the bare minimum of a gallon - PP, PM, PD.
(per person, per meal, per day)
last fix.
S/B
Instead, they eat a lot of starches like oodles and oodles of potatoes
and noodles.This isn’t true - you can certainly buy 2% milk vs whole and you can buy grain cereals and forego the sugar frosted flakes..sorry, but you are way off base on this one. I will agree that people who live in poverty are more likely to be over weight…but I do not believe OBESITY is a given!
Erin_Coda,
I understand what you are saying, but both women in the picture are obese. Cheaper food doesn’t explain all of that. Life style choices explains much more.
I hate to be rude it looks like they could miss a meal.
How deliciously ironic! Did they actually LOOK at these women before they did the piece?
Nothing a 12 pack can’t take care of MEN!
The Nunez family, putting the “ALL You can eat Buffets” out of business across America. They even eat the goldfish in the fish tanks on their way out the door.
i somewhat agree. items like milk can be purchased in their healhier forms, but the cereal example, among a great many others, does hold water.
I would submit also that these 2 tubs of lard are WAY beyond the point that 2% milk would have any effect.
Erin -
Just because you can get 10 packs of ramen noodles for a dollar doesn’t mean you must eat them all in one sitting.
I agree. My point is that the government isn’t making people obese because they are on WIC or food stamps! If WIC is making you fat - get off of it!
102 dollars of free food money a month because I am too lazy to work and weigh as much as Obama’s bus. Hmmm, how to eat healthy on that budget. I got it batman! Head to Costco (only need one person in the whole family with one, I’m sure the whole lot of them can come up with 50 bucks between them for a years membership).
50 pound bag of rice: 10 dollars
10 pound bag of frozen mixed greens: 6 dollars (get 3 bags): 18 dollars
20 pound bag of pinto beans (for the protein and fiber): 10 dollars
Giant bag of 6 Romaine lettuce heads: 2.50 (get 4 bags) 10 dollars
Red wine vinegar to use on salad (giant sized Costco bottle): 7 dollars.
Total to eat healthy and cheap and enough to feed a family of 40 for a month: 61 dollars before sales tax
Hell, she has 39 bucks left. Might as well kick in a 5 dozen pack of eggs for 7 dollars, a 10 pound bag of yellow onions for 5 dollars, and two 12 packs of peas and green beans in a can for 12 dollars. New total: 80 dollars
Yeah, real tough to eat healthy these days and skip out on meat and have enough food for a small village.
/sarc
completely agree. I find its more of their laziness and their lack of desire to take care of themselves, that contributes more than anything else. They could make healthy choices, and foods like fruits and veggies are covered under programs like this. They simply choose to be the offset for our planet’s gravitationl constant.
which is nice, because if they werent there, we’d all have to drink extra v8 to cover up the change in tilt.
#13 GuitarGuy
I’m crying LMAO!
Misscheryl, I agree with you about the 2% milk. But my comment about the cereal was taken DIRECTLY FROM a sign posted at a local (big chain) grocery store.
And I also have to say that the government’s building of a subsidized housing complex 40 miles out from the major city, nowhere near public transportation or walkable/bikeable jobs, showed a certain lack of foresight. As did the actions of those who chose to move there.
PS– hadn’t considered the Costco angle; point granted and thanks for the perspective.
These ladies are clearly swollen due to protein deficiency. Its called kwashiorkor, and the Nuñez girls have it bad. Get them some meat before they bust open.
If they have any land space, they may also consider growing food.
I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time…mostly at the comments.
NPR failed to pluck my heartstrings with this article.
How on earth can a 40yo NEVER have worked a day in her life? That’s blows me away! And then complains that she can only buy 7 bags instead of 10?? I shop for a family of 4 and I manage a week of groceries in about 6 bags - and we eat pretty well (and exercise!).
Get off the couch, lose some weight, find something you’ll be interested in doing and go out and find a way to do it - here’s the truth: employers are turned off by obese people. A trim, attractive person is going to get hired over an obese person. It shows without a word how motivated you are. It may not be right, but that’s how it is.
I started bagging groceries at 17, worked on work study programs and slinging coffee through college, applied for internships, worked my way to what I’m doing now. I got laid off once and didn’t have a job for 2 weeks because I busted my ass to get another one.
No one gave any of this to me, why does she expect someone to just give her something?
MINI ME!!!!! COME HERE MINI Me….MINI ME, are you there mini me?
Can’t find mini me. HERE MINI ME.
#159 Naw - they just retain a lot of water…
Whatever Erin - your thinking is flawed however…governmental programs do not make you fat!
Here I thought they were just big boned.
GET IN MY BELLY!!!!!!
Ya know, i wonder…if they got ahold of mini me, would they fight over him like 2 starved, rabid jackals fighting over a rabbit carcass?
And would one try to eat the other, or themselves, like Pizza the Hut, if they were locked in their car?
food for thought. LOL
Gone for the weekend. l8r
I always shop the sales at regular grocery stores or at Trader Joe’s (good food at low prices) so I am not seeing the price go up like maybe others are. Ocassionally I may get something off of sale price but it’s usually because it is something I didn’t account for which is rare. I buy meat typically on sale and usually eat chicken but have a hamburger a few times a month. I don’t buy junk so that pretty much eliminates wasteful calories/money.
#166 STOP IT! LMAO!!!! Mental pictures! SHEESH!
…perhaps I should have limited my comments to the observation that being on gov’t assistance limits options and breeds dependence, so it’s better not to go there.
Beefcake?
And therein lies the liberal plan. Make the people dependent on the nanny state.
They could just get a submarine sandwich because.. It’s not lackin any meat and that’s what real woman need.
Actually, Erin, I thought your post was well thought-out and written, representing the challenges many on the rolls do face with the social service system.
However, personal responsibility should come first. The choices made by this family has more influence on their dilemma than the system.
Abstractmind #42 and jellibean, we’re clearly spending way too much time on the same sites. I about ruined my keyboard with that “nom nom nom” comment.
Well, regardless of your opinion of the state welfare/food stamp system in this country, or your feelings about NPR, this has been a lot of fun.
It’s so NPR to run with a story regardless of the contradiction between the story and the photograph. “Are you sure these are the Nunez’s ? … Are you absolutely sure ? Well, we better mention that they eat a lot of starches, go with the starches line.”
It has been fun. Heck those gals will read this and sue - then they can have all the rocky road ice cream they want. Oh yeah and throw a side ‘o beef on the grill!
Have a great weekend
I read them all and still didn’t get that one.
What is it with the left picking the wrong poster children (cough ::Graham Frost:: cough)?
As to what you can get with WIC and food stamps - way back when I was pregnant and widowed and was on welfare for a brief time. While WIC gives you the food or limits you at the grocery store to certain choices - the proverbial block of government cheese - with food stamps (which are more often a sort of debit card and not stamps anymore) you can shop as you please, as long as you’re not getting alcohol and cigarettes.
The article says that they’re getting food stamps specifically, so they are NOT being restricted to certain food choices.
I also took a few minutes to look up their town and county. It’s about like anywhere else, I’d say. It has a courthouse, community college, fast food places, the usual businesses. There’s jobs there; as much as there are anywhere. But I imagine most employers would think twice about hiring those women; they’re a workers comp case looking for a place to happen.
They would eat all the profits at a fast-food joint.
And break the chair in an office setting.
Anyone have a perspective on driving lgm’s beloved bus? How big are the seats for the driver?
At least they’re famine resistant.
That’s why there is a corn shortage.Along with the starches they had to have eaten 2 to 3 million tortillas,last week.
If you ask me, their biggest struggle would be to make the ends of their belts meet.
Bwaahahahahahahahahahah, LMAOROF
Wow, getting beat with the ugly stick, the fat bat, and the stupid stick in a single pass…
HA HA HA ROmmsey #185.
Has anyone asked: was the 12 bags of groceries for just one, or for both of them?
Either way, the calories will tell…..
“They simply choose to be the offset for our planet’s gravitational constant.”
ROFL nice.
Sometimes, not buying ice cream COULD be a blessing….
Angelica Hernandez (left), and her mother, Gloria Nunez, struggle to make ends meet on a very limited budget.
Which “ends” are they referring to?
Their belts?
Looks like a couple of Medicaid/Medicare abusers my son was talking about last night. He is a Pharmacist Tech at Wal-Mart (about the only game in town here) working towards becoming a documented drug pusher in the next couple of years (Pharmacist). He went off on well fed people like this badly in need of a bath/shower along with some dental hygiene tips that were milking the system for all it was worth and how they went off on him because they would have to pay $4 for a prescription that was not authorized for them or how they would try to us the system to pay for an X-Box with games or even groceries. He had both of us in stitches going into a full blown very descriptive rant.
One thing I can say for our son he has his head on straight and he is getting a wonderful first hand education on people that have grown rather large sucking on the Government teat. I believe these large women need to not only knock off their meat and ice cream consumption they need to take it a little easy on the starches too.
That is typical of NPR. That leftist organization caters to the masses….the habitus masses!
No car? Boohoo - get a bike. You haven’t worked a day in your entire life, including the 10+ years prior to this alleged debilitating accident that made you depressed for 17 friggin years, so the lack of wanting to work was clearly a pre-existing condition.
Stop making excuses and living off our backs. Social Services are there to help people who genuinely need it in an emergency until they can get their head above water, not so some fat lazy cow can sit around doing nothing for decades at the expense of others who actually have to work to survive.
I wonder if you own your own home too? I have no car, pay huge rent in NYC, and am putting myself through college so I can better support myself and my other half. I’ve never been on a benefit, even though I’ve been entitled to it after an employer went under.
You’re expecting some sort of pity party fatso? All you’ve earned is a slap in the face. I’d kick you in the ass but I’m afraid I’d never get my shoe back.
Notice the photog couldn’t quite fit the two of ‘em in the one pic? Of course if he had, it would’ve blinded everyone so it’s probably for the best.
rommsey,
Oh holy hell. Monitor soaked with beer. LOL
Tre,
That was good!
I wonder how many slip and fall and other claims these people have.
Ya know, I bet that’s one ass even Red Foreman wouldn’t go tryin’ to kick…..
Can’t believe that didn’t occur to me - but, YES. Duh.
Okay, granted, in winter in Ohio, that could be a problem. But 7 or 8 months of the year a bike will get you where you need to go, and they should be able to put aside money to get the van fixed for use in the winter. Problem solved, you’re a genius, you should run for office.