http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=230x4396Now, this is patently made up, trying to make New England of the 2000s seem like the Deep South of the 1930s. It seems to me that if one is walking 28 miles in New England, he's going to be trekking through two or three whole states.
grasswire (1000+ posts) Sat May-09-09 04:04 AM
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it's brutal out there
I just learned tonight that a family member who has been struggling in rural New England has been getting only one meal only six days a week. Yesterday he walked 28 miles to visit his two little girls who live with their mother. On the way back to his room (at night) he drank water from a lake, and his knees gave out so he sat by the side of this rural road for a bit. A sheriff came along and gave him a ride for a couple of miles.
He's decided to leave the area and go thousands of miles elsewhere to find work where there's a small support system (struggling, too). He has to leave his girls, and it's killing him.
Don't tell me about an improving economy. I don't see it. This is too much like the Great Depression.
Hasn't Pa Kettle in the White House had quite some time now, to improve the economy?
inthebrain (1000+ posts) Sat May-09-09 04:07 AM
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1. It's brutal out there
Capitalism has collapsed in the United States. The powers that be seem more interested in keeping up the ruse that there is security in the system.
People are pissed the **** off everytime someone goes on about the the economy having a positive prognosis. Wall Street just ripped everyone off.
yy4me (1000+ posts) Sat May-09-09 06:53 AM
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3. I'm a New Englander and hear from people in all 6 states from time to time. The horror stories abound. There are some towns where the business districts look like remains from a war zone. Storefronts empty, people just hanging around with very little possibility of finding work. Some of these towns were viable business communities just a few years ago. The jobs are gone, no-one to support the local businesses.
Just down the street you will find the great wal-mart, taking any dollars available. This same wal-mart that sent all the little mom and pop businesses out of business. The big factories have gone south of the border ot just gone. I live in fear for all of us. We are sitting ducks to be shoved aside when the next closure or downsize comes.
No cost of living increase for Social Security? Hey Washington, come to our neck of the woods and start comparing the prices of everything. A trip to the grocery store will make you sick. Never mind anything else you might mention. I feel for your uncle and see how readily this could happen to all of us.
Unemployment has hit home for me and hundreds in my small town. Never thought I'd see the day.......
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Aren't all of these states blue states? What's up with that?
grasswire (1000+ posts) Sat May-09-09 12:08 PM
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5. so true
He's in the lakes region of NH. He's a certified chef who has worked at the best restaurants, including the Ritz Carlton in Boston and some of the region's beautiful old inns. He's getting less than 20 hours of work a week and says that some nights there are NO DINERS in the dining room of the beautiful old resort. He has desperately tried to stay near his girls. Impossible. He's in a downward spiral there. Six meals a week. I cried and cried last night.
What kind of ghouls would deliberately ruin the economy of a country?
What is the end game for the corporatists? How is ruining the economy more profitable than making money from a thriving economy?
And what will wake the people?
(Those questions have no answers, I know.)
Ghouls who would deliberately ruin the economy: Pa Kettle in the White House, Harry Reid, Bela Pelosi, Vast Teddy, &c., &c., &c., and the subway cat and all other primitives on welfare.
glitch (1000+ posts) Sun May-10-09 12:12 AM
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7. "What kind of ghouls would deliberately ruin the economy of a country?"
Answer that question and all the dots fall into place.
Uh-huh.
