Living on the dole is getting harder for welfare types

For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach

by Yuki Noguchi




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.

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.

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.

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.

People tell Nunez her daughter could get more money in public assistance if she had a child.

"A lot of people have told me, 'Why don't your daughter have a kid?'"

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.

'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.

"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?"

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.

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Wow.  Just wow.

Speechless...

The laziness of some people is totally disgusting.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

So....the one in red is a 19yr old girl???!!!!

Fuck me.......(That's just WRONG!)  I'm NOT trying to be an A-Hole here but....19yr old Women SHOULD'NT be large enough to require a weigh-in down to the local feed store.

I can't believe some of you fuckers are laughing!  They're obviously near starvation!()

Quoted: I can't believe some of you fuckers are laughing!  They're obviously near starvation!()

Wow!  Those are some nasty looking bitches

I wanna piss on FDR's grave

Quoted: So....the one in red is a 19yr old girl???!!!! Fuck me.......(That's just WRONG!)  I'm NOT trying to be an A-Hole here but....19yr old Women SHOULD'NT be large enough to require a weigh-in down to the local feed store.

She has a cool tat on her arm helps in the job interview thingy

Cage match.  The loser is is killed and rendered for fuel and meat.

Quoted: I wanna piss on FDR's grave

I kinda do too.  Where is it?

"poor" people in the USA



poor kid in africa

LOL that is the funniest fucking thing I've read all week.

(the picture above my post makes it not-so-funny)

Bovine Expellement!!! There are all kinds of programs to help people get of their ass....err......i mean welfare and find employment available for free to most welfare bums...err......i mean lazy....err.......I mean physically able welfare recipients to get employed.

Rationaliizations and excuses is all this worthless tramp will ever consist of, like most welfare bums....err....i mean Lazy don't want to work...err.....i mean falsly disabled people who live off the tit i pay for!!

Disclaimer: I understand a lot of folks have legimitimate reasons to collect government sustainance due to reasons beyond their control such as physical disabilities that can be verified or are elderly and can't physically work anymore. I'm talking about the types who fake mental diabilities and such they don't have to collect titty milk from my wallet.

Depression from a car wreck give me a break!!!

I see, from the picture they sure as hell ain't starvin' on that $106 bucks of grub stubs!!

Looks like a Whole Lotta' Meat and No Potatoes in that picture.....

That human cow in the blue is 40?

Damn.  Just DAMN.  

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Quoted: Quoted: I wanna piss on FDR's grave I kinda do too.  Where is it?

I'm in

Just an example of 2 more parasites who have had more than their fill of Gov blood...

Quoted: "A lot of people have told me, 'Why don't your daughter have a kid?'"

Thats pretty obvious as to why, maybe they could hire a illegal to do the job americans dont want to do

Wow.  Just... wow.  

Quoted: Quoted: "poor" people in the USA media.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2008/july/ohio/nunez540.jpg poor kid in africa img185.imageshack.us/img185/4504/vulturelm8.jpg img168.imageshack.us/img168/7472/awardan1.png

LMFAO...Damn, I could have a beer or two with Raven.

Quoted: "poor" people in the USA media.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2008/july/ohio/nunez540.jpg poor kid in africa img185.imageshack.us/img185/4504/vulturelm8.jpg

Ought to post that in forums at NPR...

Hey!  Have some respect.  They are SAVING THE PLANET!  Do you have any idea how much carbon they are sequestering?  

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.

You could, well... get a bicycle.

Well unless you can buy alcohol with food stamps at least they won't be procreating.

Quoted: 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. You could, well... get a bicycle.

surprised the gov hasnt bought her a hovercraft

Don't worry ladies, the winds of CHANGE are blowing, and so shall you blow too.

For fucks sake.

Quoted: 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. You could, well... get a bicycle.

Walk, fat-ass.  Is there any way to forward this thread to NPR or those "ladies"?

Quoted: 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. You could, well... get a bicycle.

Do NOT want to see!!!!!

it says alot when even our "poorest" are morbidly obese.

i have notice this too with panhandlers on the street


as someone else noticed, they have money for tats thought

Wowzers.

At least they can share clothes!!!  ya thats jsut not right is it?

Can't even tit fuck'em

their shape reminds me of goombas from mario

belt size = equator

The real question is would You hit it?  

Quoted: Quoted: "A lot of people have told me, 'Why don't your daughter have a kid?'" Thats pretty obvious as to why, maybe they could hire a illegal to do the job americans dont want to do

They're built like two deflated balloons.

Nunez, 40, has never worked and has no high school degree

yet earlier it says she grew up middle class

Quoted: That human cow in the blue is 40? Damn.  Just DAMN.

Never had a job.

We have been feeding her for her entire adult life.

There are millions more like her.

Quoted: So Nunez and her daughter are mostly stuck at home.

When they sit around the house, they sit AROUND the house.  

Do they sweat gravy?

When they haul ass, they gotta make 4 trips.

All other photos of them are aerial.

Do they have to iron their clothes on the driveway?

When they go to the beach, the tide comes in.

Are they eating Wheat Thicks?


Thanks, I'll be here all weekend. Try the veal.

Quoted: Quoted: "A lot of people have told me, 'Why don't your daughter have a kid?'" Thats pretty obvious as to why, maybe they could hire a illegal to do the job americans dont want to do

Quoted: Quoted: "poor" people in the USA media.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2008/july/ohio/nunez540.jpg poor kid in africa img185.imageshack.us/img185/4504/vulturelm8.jpg Ought to post that in forums at NPR...

+1

Do it!

Quoted: The real question is would You hit it?

not even with someone else's dick

Quoted: Quoted: So Nunez and her daughter are mostly stuck at home. When they sit around the house, they sit AROUND the house.   Do they sweat gravy? When they haul ass, they gotta make 4 trips. All other photos of them are aerial. Do they have to iron their clothes on the driveway? When they go to the beach, the tide comes in. Are they eating Wheat Thicks? Thanks, I'll be here all weekend. Try the veal.

Yo momma so fat, her dress size is 747!

Yo momma so fat, when she put on aher little black dress, she look like outer space!

Quoted: Quoted: The real question is would You hit it?   not even with someone else's dick

Uparmored, maybe.
My toyota would be toast.