Let's play Spot The Moral Difference, which is a fun game I get to play anytime someone brings up food stamps: Did you pay 15% in capital gains tax this year? If so, then first you're a fucking sucker, and secondly you can get all that back in deductions, which is where the government will give you money to go out to dinner with your lovely wife Muffy, who only eats at pop-up Per Se knockoffs. Alternatively: Did you pay 15% in payroll tax this year? If so, then first you're a fucking sucker, and secondly you'll get all that back in food stamps, which is where the government will give you money on a little plastic card so you can cook for your lovely wife Muffy, which is the ironic nickname you gave her because she eats her mac and cheese with hot dogs very delicately.
Wow, I was just this morning telling someone about my mother, whose parents took her out of school against her will at age 13 by lying and saying she was 14 so she could go work in a factory for 10 hours a day, for $5/week. And when I was 14 and wanted to get a job babysitting my mother said "No, I want you to have the happy teenage years that I missed." If I think about this too hard I start to cry, cause I thought that child labor shit was long gone.
seriously, I think we need a comprehensive home ec program for all ages. it really is not that hard or expensive to make your own pizza. some flour, water and yeast will make a good basic crust, make your own sauce is some basil, tomatoes, salt (yeah I know, but you need it) or there are some OK organic brands for sale, cheese and whatever you like on top, some chopping but still so easy. you could also make your own pesto and any extra is great on pasta for tomorrow. basic cooking should be required for everyone.
simple sewing is easy as well but most people, not just the yuuts, find it a struggle just to get the right stuff just to start.
depending on how old you are (if you are a real oldz like me, this is probably correct) if you mom was born back in the 1920's that was the depths of the Depression(assuming born in 1920 so when 13 it would have been 1933 and so on). or they could have been in a company town and had to just to pay off the company for being alive and having hands they could use. so while sad it may not have been as inexcusable as it sounds now. I am glad she learned how much it meant to you. and a good cry is nothing to be ashamed of!
"I am still happy with President Trump," says Barbara Puckett, who lives in Beattyville and has been on Social Security disability since the late 1990s because of sclerosis. But she says she would worry if the budget becomes law and she loses her benefit.
... the title of the article should be: "I voted for Trump. Now he wants to cut the aid I need. And I would vote for him again. Yes, I'm that dumb."
SNAP allotments are not sufficient. So, recipients purchase cheap food with them. Cheap food is not always the most nutritious. Plus, can everyone stop judging everyone else? I had genetic testing. I have every one of the so-far-identified identified genetic contributors to obesity. I have to exist on very few calories to not be overweight. I also suspect that hormones and antibiotics in our food supply has contributed to childhood obesity. This has not been studied because of Big Agriculture, Monsanto, and Big Pharma lobbyists. "Corporations are people, my friend".
I think your definition of "expensive" might not be the same as people who are living on $730/month SSDI and who have a child or two, although that might depend on where one lives. Yes, making pizza is very easy, but you are right about basic cooking lessons. There was a good documentary on PBS last year that followed three families who became homeless and had to live in cheap motels. The only thing they had to cook with was a microwave. It was a very depressing program.
My grandparents married in 1901, and my mother was born in 1914 - the 7th of 14 children. Grandpa was a coal miner, but it wasn't a company town. As a girl, she was "Mother's Helper" with the cooking, cleaning, laundry, and caring for the younger children. They put her to work in a bobbin and thread factory. She was devastated - she wanted to stay in school more than anything, and she knew that the only way out of poverty was to get an education. In 1931 they moved to a Brooklyn tenement, where living conditions were even worse, and she had to work in a button factory. But NYC had free night school for adults. . . that was definitely an improvement from her point of view. So she worked by day in the factory, and went to night school and got her diploma in 6 years. Then she won a scholarship to nursing school. Then she joined the Army Nurses Corps and went to WWII. Then she got married and had 3 children while working full time. I don't think she ever had a chance to learn how to relax and kick back and enjoy herself, but she got what she wanted out of life and she was contented.
Wow, I was just this morning telling someone about my mother, whose parents took her out of school against her will at age 13 by lying and saying she was 14 so she could go work in a factory for 10 hours a day, for $5/week. And when I was 14 and wanted to get a job babysitting my mother said "No, I want you to have the happy teenage years that I missed." If I think about this too hard I start to cry, cause I thought that child labor shit was long gone.
My eyes keep getting drawn to the mullet. Why, if you are a self-proclaimed billionaire, are you unable to find a halfway decent barber, Donut?
i'd buy more money but then i couldn't buy beer -
priorities!
seriously, I think we need a comprehensive home ec program for all ages. it really is not that hard or expensive to make your own pizza. some flour, water and yeast will make a good basic crust, make your own sauce is some basil, tomatoes, salt (yeah I know, but you need it) or there are some OK organic brands for sale, cheese and whatever you like on top, some chopping but still so easy. you could also make your own pesto and any extra is great on pasta for tomorrow. basic cooking should be required for everyone.
simple sewing is easy as well but most people, not just the yuuts, find it a struggle just to get the right stuff just to start.
less time wasted asking questions anyway
the ring pillows are needed when those hemorrhoids infect the metaphorical backside of the government
depending on how old you are (if you are a real oldz like me, this is probably correct) if you mom was born back in the 1920's that was the depths of the Depression(assuming born in 1920 so when 13 it would have been 1933 and so on). or they could have been in a company town and had to just to pay off the company for being alive and having hands they could use. so while sad it may not have been as inexcusable as it sounds now. I am glad she learned how much it meant to you. and a good cry is nothing to be ashamed of!
Nice camel toe, Donald.
Can these people be helped?
"I am still happy with President Trump," says Barbara Puckett, who lives in Beattyville and has been on Social Security disability since the late 1990s because of sclerosis. But she says she would worry if the budget becomes law and she loses her benefit.
... the title of the article should be: "I voted for Trump. Now he wants to cut the aid I need. And I would vote for him again. Yes, I'm that dumb."
from: http://money.cnn.com/2017/0...
SNAP allotments are not sufficient. So, recipients purchase cheap food with them. Cheap food is not always the most nutritious. Plus, can everyone stop judging everyone else? I had genetic testing. I have every one of the so-far-identified identified genetic contributors to obesity. I have to exist on very few calories to not be overweight. I also suspect that hormones and antibiotics in our food supply has contributed to childhood obesity. This has not been studied because of Big Agriculture, Monsanto, and Big Pharma lobbyists. "Corporations are people, my friend".
I think your definition of "expensive" might not be the same as people who are living on $730/month SSDI and who have a child or two, although that might depend on where one lives. Yes, making pizza is very easy, but you are right about basic cooking lessons. There was a good documentary on PBS last year that followed three families who became homeless and had to live in cheap motels. The only thing they had to cook with was a microwave. It was a very depressing program.
My grandparents married in 1901, and my mother was born in 1914 - the 7th of 14 children. Grandpa was a coal miner, but it wasn't a company town. As a girl, she was "Mother's Helper" with the cooking, cleaning, laundry, and caring for the younger children. They put her to work in a bobbin and thread factory. She was devastated - she wanted to stay in school more than anything, and she knew that the only way out of poverty was to get an education. In 1931 they moved to a Brooklyn tenement, where living conditions were even worse, and she had to work in a button factory. But NYC had free night school for adults. . . that was definitely an improvement from her point of view. So she worked by day in the factory, and went to night school and got her diploma in 6 years. Then she won a scholarship to nursing school. Then she joined the Army Nurses Corps and went to WWII. Then she got married and had 3 children while working full time. I don't think she ever had a chance to learn how to relax and kick back and enjoy herself, but she got what she wanted out of life and she was contented.
Oh Donald
http://i.imgur.com/NOzYewD.jpg
Can someone explain to me why the pics have him golfing lefty?
the last part is the important part. and i think it is wonderful you can tell her story and I hope she has grandkids you can pass it onto :)