bitter old Vermontese cali primitive wants to improve food stamps

[Mr Mannn]

So. Does this mean Cali hasn't been employed since the earwig incident?
She's been living in misery since then?
Or is Vermont generous with its welfare?

[67 Rover]

I like the idea of a food barn/warehouse.  The food stamp users get their food there.  Only approved items are for sale.  Packaging is half the cost in super markets, why not buy some of the food in bulk.  There could also be an area for recipe exchanges or menu planning before they shop, to stretch their dollars.

It's sad, but some people really are clueless on how to stretch food dollars or prepare a healthy meal.

I agree with this excellent idea above with one addition, recipients would need to produce a photo ID to receive any benefits. 

[GOBUCKS]

So. Does this mean Cali hasn't been employed since the earwig incident?
She's been living in misery since then?
Or is Vermont generous with its welfare?

She whined and mewled around for a while after being wallduded in July 2011, but was drinking heavily.

Then in September she took a drunken tumble and really busted up her leg.

She claimed to have been crawling up the road for help with a broken bone sticking out of her lower leg.

She claimed to have had multiple surgeries on the leg, resulting in great pain and a blossoming addiction to pain pills.

But of course DUmmies lie, all the time. She may have a narcotics addiction with no broken bone.

Anyway, she's been on the dole, living off the fat of Vermont, since July 2011.

We can hope she's been in misery all that time.

[lastparker]

Deadbeats eating mushroom duxelles and dandelion salad with a shallot vinaigrette are still deadbeats.

Another snippet of brilliance added to my siggy line. H5.

[DUmpsterDiver]

Before being fired in the Great Earwig Scandal, she cooked tea.

Where can one read more about this "earwig scandal"?  It sounds educational.

[Chris_]

http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=62285.0
"The Summer People"

[DUmpsterDiver]

Thank you for the link and the white light vibes I got from the story.  One gets that similar satisfaction from watching a Bronson Death Wish movie.  Refreshing, and it helps one keep focus in these booming ZeroBama economic times.

[lastparker]

http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=62285.0
"The Summer People"

Ah Good Times. Thanks for the link.... I got happy all over again.

[Karin]

Chris, I have to say that was lighting fast speedy service!  I remember that day well, it blossomed in front of me all morning, like a beautiful flower. 

[GOBUCKS]

From Chris_'s link.

It was a beautiful, beautiful thing.

And after DUmmy Eva cali's catastrophe, you have to wonder how utterly stupid our buddy Bulna must be to do exactly the same thing with exactly the same result.

cali  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jul-24-11 03:24 PM
Original message
It's almost August. I'm sick of the summer people.
 The area where I live is a poor, rural but beautiful part of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom. The town where I live is most often described as "hardscrabble", but just down the road a couple of miles is beautiful pristine Caspian Lake and a thriving summer enclave of privileged people. William Rehnquist vacationed here for decades. On a brighter note, so did Wallace Stegner.

The place I work is sort of the pet place for summer people, not only from this area of Vermont but from all over the state and NH. (We welcome our neighbors- farmers, loggers, the local GLBT community, and make sure that people who aren't wealthy summer folk feel at home and can afford at least some of what's on the menu, and much of the nursery stock). The summer people are so frickin' entitled- they're always the ones letting their dogs run around unleashed and chasing the chickens and running through the display gardens)

This afternoon a particularly obnoxious, large family group is coming. (D.C. repukes, you'd recognize the name). They always arrive late. They're late now. They're demanding and constantly changing their order and running the waitress/waiter ragged. They invariably demand the screened porch- not the garden where they'd have to share space with the hoi polloi. So... we're telling them that the screened in porch is infested with earwigs. Yesterday we called and told them that if they arrive a minute past four we aren't serving them, and we're not offering them any of the specials or catering to any special dietary requests.

Petty revenge can be sweet.

20 minutes to go. They will show up at 4. We will not let them stay. We're all hoping they never come back.

Here's where I work.

http://perennialpleasures.net/tea-garden-cafe

cali  Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Mon Jul-25-11 10:35 AM
Original message
To all:
     
Yesterday, I made a grievous error of judgment and I want to try to rectify it in any way that I can.

I posted a message here venting inappropriately about some of the customers at my the place I work. In doing so I deeply hurt my employers, wonderful people who I admire and care for deeply. I apologize to them and I'm so sorry for the pain and trauma I've caused them. I also apologize to the unnamed family I insulted.

I want to make it absolutely clear that what I expressed in that post in NO way is reflective of my the views of my employers. They are terrific, accepting and welcoming people. The last thing they deserve is to be hurt by my having been an idiot. They were shocked and horrified by what I wrote, which was emailed to them by someone who posted thread. I completely understand their reaction.

As of today I have tendered my resignation. It's the least I could do to try and right the wrong I created.

Again, I am so sorry to have hurt folks who have been so very good to me.

And from there she went to depressed drunkenness, resutling in the drunken accident breaking her leg, resulting in drug addiction, resulting in permanent unemployment and food stamps.

It could not have happened to a more deserving person.

[Karin]

What a classic!  Paragraph 3 of the original screed is just jaw-dropping.  Oh, and remember how the cheapest thing on the menu is $25 for a plain old pot of tea?  I'll bet the hardscrabble folks of VT really appreciate that.  Even the GLBT ones.

[JohnnyReb]

ConservativeCave....helping DUmmies draw unemployment and get foodstamps since 2009.

[Ptarmigan]

This is why America is so broke.