For America's new poor, help can be hard to find
23.02.12
When your stomach and wallet are equally empty. When your three
children sleep next to your wife in a shelter. When you play piano for
pennies on a downtown sidewalk. That's when you know you are poor.
It's
a twisted realization for a family that once earned $100,000 a year,
owned a BMW and never gave a second thought to a Starbucks stop or
Cheesecake Factory lunches.
"Life on life's terms," Seth Mayer says. "It will shake you down sometimes."
During
one of the worst economic periods in U.S. history, many Americans have
experienced financial destruction and the stress of making ends meet.
More than one out of every six Tennesseans (1.1 million) lived in
poverty in 2010 -- a 2.3 percent increase from 2008 -- and those getting
by with the help of government assistance, social services and
nonprofit support continues to rise.
After years of financial security, many have to learn how to be poor.
But
who teaches them about food stamps, local soup kitchens, filing for
unemployment, seeking government assistance? The answer is, people in
this community teach one another.
Source: WBIR-TV
Gisele rips Patriots, gives Brady a pass
23.02.12
I blame Gisele .
When your team's QB loses two consecutive Super Bowl appearances to the Giants in excruciating fashion, we naturally turn to his wife for the reason why. Or maybe it was his children. After all, Brady hasn't won a Super Bowl since Baby Momma Bridget Moynahan made him a Baby Daddy in 2007 . Of course, I saw plenty of Giants on the field after the game with their kids, so we know how absurd that argument is. When Brady had a brain-freeze and tossed that floater to no one on his first snap of the game Sunday picking up an intentional grounding penalty and safety, it was not because he was thinking about Ben's next play date or little John's nursery-school grades.
Back to the wife. TMZ called Gisele " Yoko Bundchen ." Brady will be singing "Give Peace a Chance" when the team gets together for those OTA's in a couple of months and the subject of "How's the wife?" comes
Source: Boston.com (blog)
