Dateline's Report on poverty in Ohio -- if you missed it

[Donnachaidh]

you can watch the whole hour on the website:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032600/

NBC's Ann Curry travels to Ohio where the hardworking poor, with deep traditions in mining, manufacturing and military service, are increasingly seen in food pantry lines ashamed and angry.


It's incredible that these people are living in such poverty while their Congresscritter's do NOTHING but play party politics. Please try to watch this if you've missed it.

[HillbillyBob]

1. I could not bear to watch it..been there done that

lived through (barely) several times.

[Donnachaidh]

2. I forced myself to watch -- we ALL need to watch and then start trouncing Boehner/Cantor

These people are in a hellacious predicament and their reps are in Washington playing party politics. If anything, this show should go VIRAL on the net, as living proof that the Republican reps don't give a shit about their constituents. The media should be turning this into a firestorm of shame.

[ThatsMyBarack]

3. I thought I was the only DUer that watched Dateline!

I happened to see this story yesterday, and it broke my heart over and over.

My problems are NOTHING compared to these people's!

:cry:

[Donnachaidh]

11. I normally don't, but I wanted to see how they were going to present the poverty

Our media needs to do more of these, if only to shock people into realizing that things are NOT *hunky dory* in the country and many areas are going down fast. I think they did a fair job.

[ThatsMyBarack]

12. +1

Well put! :hi:

[ejpoeta]

4. it makes me think maybe we are headed for a depression. these folks sound like they

could have beein in hoovervilles or something. that poor woman with the three kids living in her van. i wish it would show the true face of poverty and that people on assistance are not lazy as many like to think. i know why they want to think that.... the fact is that many of us could be living in our cars if we lost our jobs. and the ones who want to think these folks are lazy want to think there is some other reason why they are in that situation than just losing your job. it makes them feel safe, but ignorance can't save youi. being wholely aware of how precariously close you are to being that family living in their car should be something to make you realize how lucky you are and to do something to protect yourself like saving money. and maybe supporting your local food bank. and trying to help others if for no other reason than that you want to have that available if you need it ever.

the show did hit one one important point. the mindet of the people in this country. the selfishness and discrimination towards the poor.

[brentspeak]

5. Decent Ohio politicians like Sherrod Brown have been trying, but are getting stabbed in the back

For every Sherrod Brown in Washington, there's a Republican or a Blue Dog/New Democrat who makes sure that Congressional efforts to turn around the economy for the sake of the average American are nullified.

[Botany]

6. S.E. Ohio is beautiful but very poor

Nelsonville, OH got screwed when the Rocky Boot Company left after NAFTA was passed.

Some people in southern Ohio will continually vote or not vote at all against their own
best interests because the fundy Jesus movement is strong there.

[Oceansaway]

7. K&R...n/t

[Bitwit1234]

8. Bonehead can't be bothered he needs all the spray time he can get

after he gets thru playing golf. You know what they accuse the president of doing.

[owlsayswoot]

9. Oh hay, Nelsontuckey!

I used to live there! Thanks for the link.

I'll be the first to tell you it's just as awful as it looked in that town and swiftly getting worse, mostly thanks to the overwhelming rule of King Coal.

I knew a family whos house literally collapsed under them thanks to an old mine shaft, and there wasn't a gorram thing they could do but wave goodbye as it went thanks to all the pro-coal legislation down there along with a good dose of overwhelming poverty. :/

[EstimatedProphet]

10. No need to watch it - I'm personally acquainted

My father-in-law was a steel mill worker in Youngstown Ohio who lost almost everything he had (job, pension, everything but the house) when a corporate raider came in and bought out the steel mills in the 80's and shut them all down. My wife grew up on welfare thanks to the Reagan bastards. The entire region has never recovered, and likely never will at this rate.