The world according to Riff.

..Poor things can't afford meat, but hey they are ready for the butcher block HERE PIG PIG PIGPIG SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWEEEEEEE........sorry, I feel no sympathy, for them....riff

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. (She should try walking instead of grazing at McDonalds)

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.(I see, multi generational welfare families...cant or wont work)

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. (I call it fat, lazy, and stupid. I have known quadraplegics with jobs, anputees with no legs or missing an arm get jobs....I don't buy the bullshit)

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.(Once again try walking , that exercise thingy, can help you lose weight, and maybe if you dont weigh 400 lbs you might keep a job)

People tell Nunez her daughter could get more money in public assistance if she had a child.(OH shit here we go ......god I hope her weight keeps her from being fertile, health risk for the morbid obese are crazy if you pregnant, and ectopic pregnancy risk also go up....then there is the fact that SOMEBODY  would have to ......neverr mind) 

"A lot of people have told me, 'Why don't your daughter have a kid?'"(Institutionalized entitlement mentality)

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.(Waaaah)

'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. (Sucks to be you, send your deadbeat unemployed teenager to work, I had a job at 13 mowing yards, at 16 working in a feed mill, 18 I graduated and started  working in a leather factory, 19 I enlisted for 4 years in the NAVY, wich paid for MY schooling, after I did my service....in other words I conducted my self in a manner appropriate to keep me from being a lazy waste of protoplasm)

"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?" (suck it up and get to work)

So Nunez and her daughter are mostly stuck at home.(doing nothing, but whining, and holding out their hands for more assistance they didn't earn)

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.(Yeah I can see THAT THEY ARE STARVING!!!!!......Now don't get me wrong folks I'm not a hater.....To be honest, in january I weighed 294 lbs, that put my BMI at approx 41.....obese...in other words.....FAT.....So what did I do?.....I got off my FAT ass and cut back. I exercise, I eat healthy....most of the time.....less carbs more veggies...and hit that damn gym damn near every day....I hate it......BUT....I have lost 30 lbs, and a few inches around the ole waist line...I have 25 more to go to reach my goal...it's hard it's slow, but I do what I have to do.....unlike the "ladies" in the story.........This the direct consequence of the choices they made to put themselves in this position...now they want to be bailed out.....as far as I feel they can live off their reserves for quite a while....lol...riff