"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."
Both those women in the picture must weigh at least 300lb, so much for groceries being an issue. I used to live in Dorchester, a part of Boston with a significant immigrant (recent, as well as the Irish and everyone else who came over and started at the bottom of the heap) population. There was a fruit/veg store there, kind of a warehouse thing, that always had good stuff cheap. I would go there and see these Caribs buying rice, beans, unidentifiable root things, and other stuff, very little meat. They were all skinny and in good health. There were some Haitians living across the street from me, 3 brothers bought a triple-decker (triple decka) and lived in it with their families, all worked 2 or 3 jobs and loved America for what they could do. Whenever I talked to them on the street, they would invariably go off on the lazy welfare types up the street (black, but these guys were blacker) who were fat, lazy, no-good criminals, etc etc. Definitely not PC, and the language they used would have gotten me shot! My next door neighbor was Cape Verdean, he had a little garden plot in back, grew weird stuff, and he had the same attitude. They were harsher than the Irish rednecks up the street, go figure. Don't work, no money, get fat. Work hard, make money, stay skinny. What a country! --R Anyway, no reason Mitch Haley wrote: > In the low standard of living category, here's a woman who has never worked > in > all her 40 years. Everybody she knows is habitually unemployed too, yet she > was > raised by a man who worked his keester off in a car factory for 45 years and > tried to set a good example for her: > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92592545 > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com