Category Archives: poor

When profits come up against morality…

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…it’s rare that profit loses… (Shirley Chisholm, first woman presidential candidate)

commondreams has the story here on the banks’ speculation on food:  corn, soy, and wheat.  Be sure to look at the comments–someone has posted on the Federal Reserve bailing out foreign banks, as well as Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase…the list goes on…

I’m a little skeptical, however, of the person who lists the quotes against the Federal Reserve…sounds too civil libertarian, right-wingish for my liking…

If you recall, I wrote about the drought here in Indiana, but how the ag undersecretary was saying that it shouldn’t affect corn because there were record numbers of corn planted this year.  But after that declaration, they suddenly started saying that there was, indeed, a corn crop shortage and prices at stores were going to reflect that.

About six months ago, a resident of the building I’m in said something prophetic—when Social Security gave a cost-of-living increase…she said that grocery prices were going to go up–they always went up after s.s. increased their checks.  I’ve seen more than one single item jump $2.00 in a month’s time…and they weren’t corn, soy, or wheat or anything that depended on those three…

 

Krugman deconstructs Christie and Ryan

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Paul Krugman has this up on Chris Christie…*fiscally conservative* towards the 99%…but a whole ‘nother view towards the one percenters…

….and this on Paul Ryan...

You just can’t make this stuff up:

In March, explaining his cuts in aid for the unfortunate, he declared, “We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into lives of dependency and complacency, that drains them of their will and their incentive to make the most of their lives.”

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…while ignoring that most people who are dependent on not only food stamps but are dependent on disability/social security are there because of a health issue?

So if someone is on disability from a stroke, how is that person a moocher?  Or someone who is on oxygen and cannot work?  I see a building full of people with  health issues…so tell me again how we can get these damn moochers off of welfare/disability and working until they freaking drop?! /snark

I personally got a college degree so I would not be in the situation I’m in now…I got mercury poisoning and had undiagnosed Celiac that caused my health to deteriorate, which had a domino effect on the disaster that is my life.  I drove up and down a two lane highway for three and a half years, through wind and rain and dark of night so I could get my degree.  I studied every night for two to three hours after taking my kids to baseball, softball, ballet, etc., and fixing dinner and whatever else needed to be done…so don’t tell me that I’m lazy or unmotivated.

LG said it best:

  • LG  NYC

I always wondered why people always become “dependent and complacent” and lose “their will and their incentive to make the most of their lives” right after a financial crises…

Perhaps I should wear a big scarlet “W”

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…for being on welfare.  That would make it sooo much easier for people to spot me on the street and hurl insults.  Really, I can’t get enough of it from grocery store clerks who give me the *look* when I pull out my card….I need to have it from everyone I meet  so they, too, can feel self-righteous about not being poor.

Here’s a news flash:  nobody likes being poor.  Nobody.

Your life is not your own.

You’ve lost your autonomy.

I lost my fucking house and the $10,000 I put into it.

 

 

Definition of rape

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Well, I’m glad Senate hopeful Todd Akin has cleared up the definition of rape. /snark

See, it’s not *really* rape if she gets pregnant…

Sadly, there are too many of the R’s that believe this garbage.  Truly appalling that they don’t see women as human beings.  I’m left to wonder what category they place us in?  As a wise woman once said, rape is the only crime where the victim has to prove they didn’t want the crime to happen.

 

Romneyville

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Back in the day, when the government actually called a Depression– a Depression — the homeless lived in “Hoovervilles”.  A group in Tampa, Florida has dubbed an encampment “Romneyville”.   A funny “Bad Lip Reading” video on the site.

In all accuracy, though, they should be dubbed “Congressvilles”…because they are the ones responsible for not raising the minimum wage to a livable wage, for not raising taxes on the 1%,  for allowing banks to consolidate, for gutting banking regulations, for passing NAFTA and every other Free Trade agreement…I could go on and on…

Ryan still trying…

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…to take food out of the mouths of the poor…

…so he won’t have to tax the 1% nor, heaven forbid, cut defense spending…

*note that the Senate has also opted to cut food stamps–just not to the same degree, so, yeah, they’re just as bad.  You don’t cut a food program in the middle of a Depression…er, I mean Recession (like I’ve said before—it’s sooo much easier when you don’t acknowledge there’s a problem, then you don’t have to be held accountable for not getting off your butt to do something about it.)

“cruel” and “cold-blooded”, for sure.

 

 

Cruelty to the two-leggeds, as well…

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…school lunches should not be subsidized, according to this: http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/no-low-too-low-todd-akin

It never ceases to amaze me how arrogant people are who live off the public dole, and then hold themselves up to be pillars of society while kicking people when they’re down…

Here in FW, the second largest city in the state, 70% of the children in school require lunch assistance. Seventy freaking per cent!!

All throughout the summer, the public schools (not charter schools, mind you) provided lunches at the public libraries…they always had a full room of hungry kids.

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And, as a side note, it irritates me that I cannot buy a very nutritious carrot-apple-beet juiced drink at the juice bar in the organic store, but I can buy nutrient-lacking, sugar loaded, gut destroying soda from that same store…makes perfect sense to me. /snark