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some time ago I posted a picture helping the neighbors grandmother butchering some chickens that were running around her yard,. At that time Idid some of them and she told me to keep six of them locked up in the chicken house , she offerd them to a poor family that lives the next town over and they said they would come and get them that night. I did not get back to see her for a week and when I did she said would I mind helping her butcher the rest of the chickens, Isaid sure, but what happend to the people that were coming to get them? They never showed up, never called and when she saw the lady in the shopping center grandma said to her did you forget I want to give you some chickens? The lady laughed and said Oh yea, I let you know. Meanwhile, grandma with her bad knees is walking over to the chicken house feeding and watering the chickens, waiting for the poor family to come get the free chickens, As soon as grandma says its ok I will butcher those chickens for her. I just cant believe sometimes how people can be rude especially to a nice old lady who is so kind.
 
Disgusting, ain't it?

I've run into that stuff too. Give somebody something for free because they're having a hard time of it, and they get pissy because you didn't deliver it.

Scroom.
 
It would have involved WORK. It looks like Congress is not going to extend unemployment again so many people will be forced to take unappealing jobs now. Despite the poor economy many business owners have told of not being able to hire people. That will change now.
 
I'd like to know where that is.

I've applied for every non-sales job available in a 30 miles radius and have ZIP. Nada. Only one even acknowledged my application.

Even applied for a couple of sales-related positions and managed to fail their online screening test. Not enough of a nnalert artist to be a salesman, I guess.
 
(quoted from post at 06:36:28 12/01/10) I'd like to know where that is.

I've applied for every non-sales job available in a 30 miles radius and have ZIP. Nada. Only one even acknowledged my application.

Even applied for a couple of sales-related positions and managed to fail their online screening test. Not enough of a manure artist to be a salesman, I guess.
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I'd like to know also. There are no job openings around here except for those jobs that require special skills and training, such as in law enforcement, and there are only a small handful of those jobs that are begging to be filled.
 
when I was a kid my mom would give my outgrown clothes to a neighbor family, som of them were church clothes but they would only let their boy wear them for outside clothes afraid that someone would see that they were my hand me downs yet they always told everyone about buying clothes at goodwill, your grandmother was trying to help someone out, thats commendable, I'd take some home grown chickens with an offer to pay for them, many peoples pride gets in the way of intelligence right up to the time of starvation!
 
I applaud her generosity, but there must not be a recession. did you see the stores on black friday?
 
i had 20 dz fresh ears of corn-- local food bank wouldnt take it unless i cleaned them-- wouldnt take it in the husk and got upset when i said i wouldnt clean it for them-- if there were folks eating for free-- they could atleast clean the corn-- yeah i know many might not know hot to do it- but how long does it take to learn that task ?
 
Just today I read that 97% of the people in the US classified as poor have TV sets, 74% owned cars, 67% had cell phones. My Grandparents and millions of others worked the farm from daylight to dark for most of their adult lives for basically a subsistance living, they had next to nothing in material possessions but they bowed their heads over every meal and thanked the Good Lord for bringing the rain, sunshine, bountiful harvest, health etc. People forget that as recently as the 1950"s literally millions of people were still living as described above, but every day they were trying to get ahead and the vast majority did. I sure am thankful I was raised by people who could and would.
 
I needed to thin out the deer a few years back, but didn't have time to work up the meat. I called in on the local radio "party line" show and offered to give away some deer. I would shoot them, gut, hang them and then wanted people to come get the hanging carcass. I had two or three people call, but basically they were not interested unless I had the deer cut up, packaged, and frozen. One lady even wanted me to bring the packaged, frozen meat and put it in her freezer!!!!

Gene
 
i cant tell yall how many times i've offered stuff out of my garden to folks down on their luck if they come pick what they want...one guy finally showed up and i caught him selling it outside a liquor store...i've run out of cheeks...lazy sob's can kiss the big cheeks now.
 
One I remember off hand was a web site designer. Others I've seen on the news are retail and food service,
 
I bet if you butcher them they might show up. There's a reason people don't steal chickens anymore - they are too lazy to butcher them.
 
TV's are free, its pretty hard to have a job without a car and you certainly can't get a job without a phone. Here at least a cell phone is 1/3 the cost of a landline and the number goes with you.

There isn't much opportunity to exist like generations before, it takes a religious tax exemption to get taxes low enough to sustenance farm now. Around here the gov would own your farm afte the first year for not being able to pay the taxes.
 
Hold on!
1) TVs are not free unless someone gives one to you and you still have to pay for the power.
2) A car is not required for a job. Ahanks mares still work as does public transportation.
3) A phone is not necessary to respond to a help wanted sign.
 
Very well said, and I couldn't agree with you more. This exact thought has really been on my mind lately.
 
you make a good point , but when the grandmother asked the family if they would like them they said keep them locked in the chicken house we will come tomorrow night and pick them up. They never showed up or called , If they were proud all they would have to say is no ,but thank you for offering
 
Doesn't that just pi$$ you right off though. I had a neighbor whos horses were so hungry they ate his board fence. He finally came wanting to know if I'd sell him a couple of round bales of hay. I got him some good stuff out of the barn,but the second bale had been on the bottom and had some gravel stuck to it when I put it in his truck. He said "can I have a different bale? That one has dirt on it"! I came SO close to taking BOTH of'em out and telling him to get his @ss down the road!
 
I think you're right. Rusk co. often has the highest or 2nd highest unemployment in the state, yet there are help wanted ads nearly every week, many of which could have on-the-job training.
 
(quoted from post at 08:01:40 12/01/10) Hold on!
1) TVs are not free unless someone gives one to you and you still have to pay for the power.
2) A car is not required for a job. Ahanks mares still work as does public transportation.
3) A phone is not necessary to respond to a help wanted sign.
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#2 Public transportation only works if you live within walking distance of the nearest bus stop, and even then it still is not free.
#3 When was the last time you actually saw a "help wanted" sign on the front of a business that you just happened to be walking past?
 
At one time sloth was a Cardinal sin, apparently sloth is now a virtue. Even churches are telling people they are owed housing, food and medical care all free. There is not much left to work for when someone else provides the essentials to life for free.
Talked to a young man recently and he had been layed off for nearly two years and wasn't interested in a job as he was drawing unenployment. Charity is starting to wear a little thin for that kind of people.
Joe
 
Many of the "send me money" preachers tell the flock that God will more than provide for their needs. Apparently it does not work for preachers if they have to beg for money, sell books, DVD's, etc., and place guilt trips on the flock to get them to give.
If you want lessons in sales and marketing, just watch some of these articulate professionals, as they spin verses out of the Holy Bible to simply serve their own needs and greed.
If you want lessons in reality, just wait until they get caught either swiddling money or stepping outside of their marriage (or both). History books are full of these crooks.
 
If someone offered me homegrown chickens, vegetables, venison, etc., I would be thrilled and absolutely offer to help butcher, pick and/or pay.

I just don"t understand some people.
 
One of their lines in the 80's was "Send me $1000 and God will repay you tenfold!"

Asked one once, "How about you send ME the $1000 and God sets YOU up with the $10,000?"

Didn't have an answer for that...
 
One thing I am running into is that I need to update my programming skills. Newer machines in my trade use a software program that I was never trained in. And the only place to get the training is the OEM. And the only way to get it is to have your employer send you there. Kinda a catch 22 thing.
 
I always got a laugh outta the Reverend Ike. His commercials for his revivals in Detroit, had him dressed in a green suit, waving a bunch of $100 bills around, saying "Money!!" Hard to believe, but he used to sell out Cobo Hall in Detroit in the 60's & 70's.
 
I was laid off in August of this year... We had money saved back, for a "rainy day", but didn't expect the "40 days and 40 nights" to be this long. A few folks around the area, have brought me some work to do here in my little shop, and have even brought a few groceries. All of this is greatly appreciated, but seeing as how I spent many years in Public Safety, I feel it is supposed to be ME helping other, and it really hurts when folks turn out to help me. All I want, is WORK!!! Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the help, but I feel I should earn as much as I can, to make it on my own. My wife and I have one daughter at home (16), and we are OK for now, but don't know for how much longer. Due to my previous injuries, no one wants to put me on as regular help, so I am hired as Contract Labor, and therefore don't qualify for unemployment. Not whining, but just letting folks know that some of us are really trying :) I know it will be better, just not sure when....
 
(quoted from post at 09:37:33 12/01/10) I was laid off in August of this year... We had money saved back, for a "rainy day", but didn't expect the "40 days and 40 nights" to be this long. A few folks around the area, have brought me some work to do here in my little shop, and have even brought a few groceries. All of this is greatly appreciated, but seeing as how I spent many years in Public Safety, I feel it is supposed to be ME helping other, and it really hurts when folks turn out to help me. All I want, is WORK!!! Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the help, but I feel I should earn as much as I can, to make it on my own. My wife and I have one daughter at home (16), and we are OK for now, but don't know for how much longer. Due to my previous injuries, no one wants to put me on as regular help, so I am hired as Contract Labor, and therefore don't qualify for unemployment. Not whining, but just letting folks know that some of us are really trying :) I know it will be better, just not sure when....
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Good luck, Paul.
 
I would have to disagree VADAVE on your points.TV is a tossup,you have to have some means of trans.unless you live in town because I only know of one town under 50,000 that has Public Trans.and it doesn't go out of town.As far as the phone,you may not need it to apply,but unless you have a phone number your App.gets tossed when you walk out the door.
 
IMO,today there are no poor people,just lazy ones.
You ever noticed poor people have always money for smokes and booze.
 
I actually see it on their billboards.

The local McDonalds is begging for help with starting wages at $9.00 an hour. Not much but its honest work - but I think that's the problem.
 
I don't know how you do it Paul. I wish you luck. I've been poor and had to make the decision between groceries and electricity. No fun at all,but that was back before I ever had anything anyway. Don't know how I could ever go back to it. Even folks who are getting unemployment have to be hurting pretty bad. The wife made a lot when she was working,so she was near the upper limit for unemployment but it was a far cry from what she made when she was working.
Just seems like it costs a hundred dollars just to walk out the door everyday anymore.
 
Years ago I was in my woods cutting up some dead wood for firewood. A bow hunter came up to me & asked if I could be more quiet as he was hunting. He never did ask permission to be there. I don't know who he was or where he came from. So when I started cutting again, I made all the noise I could. Never seen him again.
 
If money is the root of all evil, why are the churches always begging for it? Makes you wonder.
 
I had a guy I know talking about being unemployed and he had been for some time. He was sucking up some workmans comp and then went off the grid. I told him about some $12 dollar an hour job and he told me he wouldn't work for less than $25 an hour because he was a skilled concrete worker in the union. I told him all he had to do was work 2 hours and he would have his $25 bucks an hour. He hasn't worked a real job now in years. Just bumbles around off the grid and freeloads.
 
That is a very true statement too. I have honestly made it a point to stay home as much as possible because you are right, it does seem to cost a hundred bucks to just go to town. If I don't have to go, I don't, because then the temptation to spend money is not there.
 
I'm not surprised I offer people surplus vegetables out of my gardens all the time maybe 5%
aren't too lazy to pick them.BTW wife and myself just finished putting up 12 Deer hindquarters the guys that hunt the farms gave us,they told me most people won't even eat Deer meat they know.Told them I'll do the skinning if they wanted me to as I'm glad to get it.Like Deer much better than beef.
 
A lot of folks aren't equipped for butchering chickens. I have no idea how you pluck 'em, I don't have a large washtub to scald 'em or whatever you do with 'em...best I could do would be to shoot 'em and skin 'em...and that wouldn't go over very well here in the subdivision.
 
that is understandable., but these people said they wanted them, keep them in the pen, we will be there to get them tomorow night, and then never showed up or called.
 
that is understandable., but these people said they wanted them, keep them in the pen, we will be there to get them tomorow night, and then never showed up or called.
 
Farming was tough in the 80s, and when my lender looked at the books he said- how do you live on that? Only the Mennonites live that cheaply. I said when you milk 70 cows and run the acres we did- up to 730- you can"t go anywhere, so if you don"t go to town, you spend less.
 
That's why I'm opposed to extending unemployment again. I understand people who were used to making $25/hr don't want to work at Wal-Mart, McDonalds, etc. But why should those of us who do work be forced to take care of those who could work if they chose to take what's available?
 
I hate throwing stuff away. had a couple mattress supports (German equivelant to box springs) that were in perfect shape besides a few scratches and some dust from moving them from corner to corner. Put an ad in the paper for 50 bucks with the idea of just giving them to someone if they looked like they needed them. One lady called and begged for us to hold them til she could get there the next afternoon cause her son needed them but had no way to get them. Turned out he only lived a couple miles or so away so I said I'd drop them off. She came by saying how her son didn't have much money. Said if she would take them she could have them. She didn't want to put them in her car (snooty) so I said give me 15 bucks and I'll take them right now. She started looking at them then and started jabbering about a scratch here and there and said that they weren't worth 15 bucks. I said OK, stomped on them a couple times and started pulling them apart. She started commenting on my people skills and I pushed her out the gate and toward the road just to see the new Mercedes SUV she was driving. If I have anything to sell now it goes on ebay.
Remember offering squirrel, rabbit, fish, and even deer to folks as a kid and had some give the "sure, if you clean them".
Dave
 
Used to offer people extras from garden but they wanted you to pick and deliver it to them. I don't offer any more. If thay are to lazy to pick it they can do without.
 
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