Если этим людям срезать вэлфер, они займутся уличной преступностью

[pargentum]

Мои Мысли - Трудящиеся США голодают.:

Бедные женщины "даже не могут себе позволить мороженое".


Все это было бы смешно, если бы NPR не фигачила такие "новости" на полном серьезе. Кстати, если кому лень читать, голодающей слева 19 лет. Голодающая справа - ее мама, которая ни дня в жизни не работала.

А вот откуда мысль про уличную преступность

Comments

[vyastik.livejournal.com]

У этих баб, судя по фамилиям, может быть еще одна проблема, о которой из политкорректности не упоминают: неродной и плохой английский.

[reaganx.livejournal.com]

Ну как же не помочь детям Поволжья!

[stas]

Их отец 45 лет работал на GM. Это кем надо быть, чтобы в третьем поколении иметь плохой английский?

[e2pii1.livejournal.com]

Big Brother зaботитcя o ниx:

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/07/29/fast.food.ban.ap/index.html

L.A.: No new fast-food outlets in poor area

Story Highlights:
* City Council votes to block new fast-food restaurants from poor area for a year
* Measure still must be signed by Los Angeles' mayor
* Officials hope restaurants with healthier food will open during moratorium
* Officials cite high rates of obesity in impoverished part of city

The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to place a moratorium on new fast food restaurants in an impoverished swath of the city with a proliferation of such eateries and above-average rates of obesity.


The yearlong moratorium -- which the mayor still must sign into law -- is intended to give the city time to attract restaurants that serve healthier food. The action is believed to be the first of its kind by a major city to protect public health.

"Our communities have an extreme shortage of quality foods," City Councilman Bernard Parks said.

. . . . .

Thirty percent of adults in South Los Angeles are obese, compared to 19.1 percent for the metropolitan area and 14.1 percent for the affluent Westside, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

Research has shown that people will change eating habits when different foods are offered, but cost is a key factor in poor communities

A report by the Community Health Councils found 73 percent of South Los Angeles restaurants were fast food, compared to 42 percent in West Los Angeles.

South Los Angeles resident Curtis English acknowledged that fast food is loaded with calories and cholesterol. But since he's unemployed and does not have a car, it serves as a cheap, convenient staple for him.

"I don't think there's too many fast food places," he said. "People like it."