Comments on: How do the poor eat? http://realityme.net/2006/10/18/how-do-the-poor-eat/ A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary. Tue, 08 May 2012 12:56:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Reality Me » Answer to How do the poor eat? http://realityme.net/2006/10/18/how-do-the-poor-eat/comment-page-1/#comment-7059 Reality Me » Answer to How do the poor eat? Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:21:29 +0000 http://blog.siliconholler.com/2006/10/18/how-do-the-poor-eat/#comment-7059 [...] I seem to have forgotten part of my post on "How do the poor eat?" There are many ways. One is FISH. By calling 865-523-7900 you are automatically directed to a participating organization (typically a church). FISH only asks the number of adults and the number of children in your household. They ask nothing of your situation. They like it when you can pickup but they will deliver. What do they deliver? One to three days worth of food and some dry goods such as soap. [...] [...] I seem to have forgotten part of my post on "How do the poor eat?" There are many ways. One is FISH. By calling 865-523-7900 you are automatically directed to a participating organization (typically a church). FISH only asks the number of adults and the number of children in your household. They ask nothing of your situation. They like it when you can pickup but they will deliver. What do they deliver? One to three days worth of food and some dry goods such as soap. [...]

]]> By: Stormare Mackee http://realityme.net/2006/10/18/how-do-the-poor-eat/comment-page-1/#comment-7058 Stormare Mackee Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:03:17 +0000 http://blog.siliconholler.com/2006/10/18/how-do-the-poor-eat/#comment-7058 I've been of the opinion that in America, nobody who's willing to work has to be poor. Six years of Bushite governance has proved me wrong. Honest, hard-working people are dropping off of middle class to a cycle of poverty like flies. More jobs are being created, but the median wage is going down, down, down. Are 200,000 minimum wage service sector McJobs replacing 100,000 well-paying manufacturing jobs a sign of economic expansion? Economists tout "productivity", which means producing corporate profits with fewer and fewer people, and more and more people working longer and longer hours with less and less pay. We're paying <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/17/rebuilding.cost/index.html" rel="nofollow">half a TRILLION dollars</a> for rebuilding Iraq, while our own people, here in the U.S. of A. are going hungry and homeless. AT, you're closer to the truth than you know. I'm a foster parent, and as sad as it is, I know that when a child is taken to state custody, the parents all of a sudden get all kinds of services (free housing, free transportation, free medical care). It costs the state of Tennessee on average $40,000 per year per child in foster care. How much better would many of those parents be if they could get that amount in direct poverty relief? I’ve been of the opinion that in America, nobody who’s willing to work has to be poor. Six years of Bushite governance has proved me wrong. Honest, hard-working people are dropping off of middle class to a cycle of poverty like flies. More jobs are being created, but the median wage is going down, down, down. Are 200,000 minimum wage service sector McJobs replacing 100,000 well-paying manufacturing jobs a sign of economic expansion? Economists tout “productivity”, which means producing corporate profits with fewer and fewer people, and more and more people working longer and longer hours with less and less pay. We’re paying half a TRILLION dollars for rebuilding Iraq, while our own people, here in the U.S. of A. are going hungry and homeless.

AT, you’re closer to the truth than you know. I’m a foster parent, and as sad as it is, I know that when a child is taken to state custody, the parents all of a sudden get all kinds of services (free housing, free transportation, free medical care). It costs the state of Tennessee on average $40,000 per year per child in foster care. How much better would many of those parents be if they could get that amount in direct poverty relief?

]]> By: djuggler http://realityme.net/2006/10/18/how-do-the-poor-eat/comment-page-1/#comment-7056 djuggler Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:39:40 +0000 http://blog.siliconholler.com/2006/10/18/how-do-the-poor-eat/#comment-7056 We keep <a href="http://domesticpsychology.com/blog/?s=gypsies&submit=GO" rel="nofollow">selling children to the gypsies</a> and they keep giving them back. We keep selling children to the gypsies and they keep giving them back.

]]> By: AT http://realityme.net/2006/10/18/how-do-the-poor-eat/comment-page-1/#comment-7055 AT Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:30:59 +0000 http://blog.siliconholler.com/2006/10/18/how-do-the-poor-eat/#comment-7055 Yeah, but the nasty irony, Doug, is that the only people who ever think about this are down on their luck. Yeah, this is a state full of poor people. Hell, I still have an EBT card in my wallet (hasn't worked for a few months. I think we might be eligible again, but it is such an ENORMOUS pain in the ass to get benefits that its not worth the trouble). Dude, I completely hate to see you down on your like, but like I was telling Lissa, I'm there with you. In fact, this is our 10th year of living lean, so I don't really know much of another way of life anymore. I think you're doing the right thing going for the corporate paycheck, as much as I hate saying it. And I do hate saying it, because the corporate IT world is pure suck. However, you'll end up doing less work for more money, and of that I'm positive. With your skills, additionally, you probably won't have to deal with a bunch of crap. You'll make it. Breathe in and breathe out. Think of that dumb cat with the claws on the treebranch. If nothing else, we've always considered selling a kid if we needed to. Yeah, but the nasty irony, Doug, is that the only people who ever think about this are down on their luck. Yeah, this is a state full of poor people. Hell, I still have an EBT card in my wallet (hasn’t worked for a few months. I think we might be eligible again, but it is such an ENORMOUS pain in the ass to get benefits that its not worth the trouble).
Dude, I completely hate to see you down on your like, but like I was telling Lissa, I’m there with you. In fact, this is our 10th year of living lean, so I don’t really know much of another way of life anymore.
I think you’re doing the right thing going for the corporate paycheck, as much as I hate saying it. And I do hate saying it, because the corporate IT world is pure suck.
However, you’ll end up doing less work for more money, and of that I’m positive. With your skills, additionally, you probably won’t have to deal with a bunch of crap.

You’ll make it. Breathe in and breathe out. Think of that dumb cat with the claws on the treebranch.

If nothing else, we’ve always considered selling a kid if we needed to.

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