Tonya Coffey's Blog - Posts Tagged "government"
Snow!
Most people who live in Kentucky don't think much when the Weather man says, snow. The ones who are scared of slick roads and who live down in the hollers usually hurry to the grocery store so they will have food for the few days their electric will be off.
In my county, we were in a magazine for the poorest county in the state of Kentucky, if the news says snow is coming, you will not be able to go to the store. I get that people need food and they won't be able to get out but why do these people have to act like the world just ended and this store is the only one in the entire world where you can get your canned beans.
I have a routine. I drive to my town once a week, on Tuesday, and pay bills, get groceries or visit the library. I don't make any other trips. I make sure I have enough food to last in case something happens and I need it. Tuesday when I went, I was pushed from the bread isle as if I was stealing it from a customer. I looked at this woman, who looked as if food should be the last thing from her mind. Her mother who was giving me the stink eye because I was actually shopping and not throwing everything in my cart that was't attached to the store itself. Then I looked at her kids. Five of them that ranged from a year old up to seven. I guess. They were dirty as heck and I frowned wondering why half of them wasn't in school, mine were in school. Then I just walked off because our county is 35% below poverty level. That's a lot of people on welfare. These people who get food-stamps and other benefits from the government, why are they the ones who act this way? They get free stuff and they come running in as if they deserve it more than someone who actually pays for it. What makes me mad or frustrated is that most of these people are in better health than some and could work.
Any way, the moral of the snow day, it brings out the crazies.
I hope no one takes offense to anything I have written. I am only venting.
In my county, we were in a magazine for the poorest county in the state of Kentucky, if the news says snow is coming, you will not be able to go to the store. I get that people need food and they won't be able to get out but why do these people have to act like the world just ended and this store is the only one in the entire world where you can get your canned beans.
I have a routine. I drive to my town once a week, on Tuesday, and pay bills, get groceries or visit the library. I don't make any other trips. I make sure I have enough food to last in case something happens and I need it. Tuesday when I went, I was pushed from the bread isle as if I was stealing it from a customer. I looked at this woman, who looked as if food should be the last thing from her mind. Her mother who was giving me the stink eye because I was actually shopping and not throwing everything in my cart that was't attached to the store itself. Then I looked at her kids. Five of them that ranged from a year old up to seven. I guess. They were dirty as heck and I frowned wondering why half of them wasn't in school, mine were in school. Then I just walked off because our county is 35% below poverty level. That's a lot of people on welfare. These people who get food-stamps and other benefits from the government, why are they the ones who act this way? They get free stuff and they come running in as if they deserve it more than someone who actually pays for it. What makes me mad or frustrated is that most of these people are in better health than some and could work.
Any way, the moral of the snow day, it brings out the crazies.
I hope no one takes offense to anything I have written. I am only venting.
