Poetmom99

Reply to Just another reason why I hate commercial radio stations in Misc JoeUser Forums

"What an absolute load of crap. If you don’t love your partner enough to be monogamous with them, why the hell would you even waste your time being in a relationship with them in the first place? I mean sure, fantasising and looking is one thing, I don’t mind innocently admiring the awesome female form but going for a bit extra on the sly is all a bit much for me. " As my husband and I say about looking at others..."We're married, we're not de

Reply to I think I am dying... in Health & Medicine JoeUser Forums

I have been having random bleeding all day, from my nose, my mouth and my ears. I think this can't be good. I don't really have a cough, but when I do cough, I cough up blood. This also can not be good. Also a freaky lump keeps growing on my jaw. I am convinced I have a tumor. Not good. (although a little hypochondriac) I also ke

Reply to Daily Love Tip in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Words to live by....You are right about needing to be there for each other after a day in the world, whether your day is good or bad. Thanks! With both of us being on our third marriages, I think we've had plenty of opportunities to realize what does and what doesn't work....and we're both willing to go the extra mile to make sure this one DOES work.

Daily Love Tip in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

LOVE TIP #1: KISS, HUG, AND SAY "I LOVE YOU!" The world beyond the walls of your home can be a less-than-loving place. In fact, it can be downright vicious at times. Both you and your mate may drag through the door after a bad day's work with ragged and worn-down spirits, feeling emotionally bruised and abused. Your words can serve as a healing balm

Reply to To Heck With the Food Stamps, I'm Mad about the Manicures! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

What prevented him from getting a different job? You say that 2 of your kids were from a previous marriage, did you not receive child support for them? Yes, I did...but fifty dollars a month doesn't go far for two school age children.....and that's total, not per child.....you see, their father wasn't working, either.

Reply to To Heck With the Food Stamps, I'm Mad about the Manicures! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Why the other months off was relevant is that you can work at another job during that time. And spend most of what I made paying for child care for three children? It wasn't financially prudent for us to do that..however, my husband DID work full time during the summer instead of only 20 hr weeks, so we did have extra money during that time.

Reply to To Heck With the Food Stamps, I'm Mad about the Manicures! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

PoetMom, from your writing you seem like an intelligent person. I pose this question and I want you to consider it in an unbiased manner if you can. Do you truly think that a family who is working 2 full time jobs and being responsible for their own family should pay for someone else's schooling? I somehow missed this question before: IMO, those who have should share what they have with those who don't have....now that our financial situation

Reply to To Heck With the Food Stamps, I'm Mad about the Manicures! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Temporary...four years....while he got his BACHELOR'S degree....the master's came afterwards, while both of us worked full time, and he took classes on weekends.He couldn't have worked full time and took classes at night and weekends so that you didn't have to collect food stamps? You have to take the classes when they are offered...at the college he attended, the majority of the classes were only offered during the day...and there were NO wee

Reply to To Heck With the Food Stamps, I'm Mad about the Manicures! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

The national average teachers wage for secondary education in 2002 was $43,030. Considering that teachers don't work for at least two months out of the year, there is no way that any full time teacher should be getting food stamps. A) I was never a secondary teacher B) I never made more than $25000/yr. working full time as an elementary teacher. That's the average in the area where I lived. And how many months a year we work is irrelevant

Reply to To Heck With the Food Stamps, I'm Mad about the Manicures! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

A better plan would have been this: Get your degree FIRST then crank out the kids as you can afford them. EXACTLY what I did....thank you for agreeing with me!! LOL

Reply to To Heck With the Food Stamps, I'm Mad about the Manicures! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I am asking the next question because I truly want to understand how this happens. If you both were bringing in such little money, why did you have 3 children? I had two children from a previous marriage, who were easily afforded when they were born...their mother was a teacher, and their father was in the AF....we had no problem supporting them...and there was no problem supporting them after the divorce and remarriage, either. Child number t

Reply to To Heck With the Food Stamps, I'm Mad about the Manicures! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Which puts the lie to Wisefawn's claims that it's all "temporary". How temporary is something that allows you to go to school and become a PROFESSOR? Temporary...four years....while he got his BACHELOR'S degree....the master's came afterwards, while both of us worked full time, and he took classes on weekends.

Reply to To Heck With the Food Stamps, I'm Mad about the Manicures! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I disagree that you used the situation as it was meant. The system is meant to sustain people while they secure employment sufficient to cover their family's basic needs. The system is not their to provide you with money while you enrich yourself. I had a full-time job, remember...one that many families have as their SOLE source of income...there are more teachers out there receiving food stamps than you would imagine. Should all those who ar

Reply to To Heck With the Food Stamps, I'm Mad about the Manicures! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Your money was given in food stamps but was essentially paying for your husband's schooling. After all, if he worked full time you wouldn't have needed $3600/yr from the tax payers. I WAS woriking full time...and his working full time, at his $5 an hour job, would still have qualified us for food stamps...we wanted to rise above the poverty level, and he wanted to be a teacher just as I was, so we did what we felt was best for our family in th

Reply to To Heck With the Food Stamps, I'm Mad about the Manicures! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

ALternately, the *choice* could have been to work and support the family. I worked 20+ hours a week while in school, but that was to pay for my school. If you can't pay for food, I can't see how you can afford school. He got grants and scholarships to pay for school...and went on to graduate school, to become a college professor. Therefore, he's making a HECK of a lot more now than he was while working in a flower shop for his father. The po

Reply to To Heck With the Food Stamps, I'm Mad about the Manicures! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

My husband would love to go back to school full time, but he can't. He has to make money to support his family. Should we get assistance so that he can go to school? You got over $300 a month in food stamps? I spend less than that and it's my own money..... With five of us, we spend over $150 a week....so that was only paying half of our food...sorry that it upsets you. And I was working full time, teaching school...and he was working 20

Reply to To Heck With the Food Stamps, I'm Mad about the Manicures! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Poetmom99, your responses would be easier to read if you either used the 'Q' (quote) feature or put the quotes in quotes. Thanks....but I DID use the quote feature on all of those yesterday....not sure why it didn't work......

Reply to Antisemitism claims about "The Passion of the Christ" in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

How could you bring a 14 year old to that movie? Because I know my child, and I knew she could deal with it...her 11 yr old sister did NOT see it, because I knew it would be too much for her to handle. I made the decision much the same way I choose ALL the movies/tv shows/ music that are seen/listened to by my children....

Reply to To Heck With the Food Stamps, I'm Mad about the Manicures! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Studies have shown that low intelligence and poverty go hand in hand. Not as a total trend, of course, but as a general reality it's true. Glad you said not as a total trend...at the time we were receiving food stamps, I was using my bachelor's degree and working as a kindergarten teacher....

Reply to To Heck With the Food Stamps, I'm Mad about the Manicures! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

These women are very visible. Less visible are the ones who do not have fancy nails, cars, etc. They are also getting public assistance. They go to church, they work as much as they can. Thank you!! I used the system for four years....my dh was a full time college student, while I was working full time, making a little over minimum wage, and we were raising three children. We received just over three hundred dollars a month in food stamps...

Reply to To Heck With the Food Stamps, I'm Mad about the Manicures! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Birth control is free, folks! I'm not sure where you are, but around here there is no free birth control....except for abstinence, of course! :)

Reply to Idea To Replace Food Stamps in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I think what you can purchase with food stamps should be much more restricted. No pop/soda, no candy, no potato chips, no junk food of any kind. Just the basics. The problem now, which Jill's idea would eliminate, is that people can't use the cards/stamps to buy necessities like soap, shampoo, toilet paper, etc--but yet they can, as you said, buy all the junk food they want. It's as if the system ENCOURAGES misplaced priorities.

Reply to The DaVinci Code in Books JoeUser Forums

That said, if you are defensive about your christian beliefs, you probably won't like this book. It is all about pagan origins of christian beliefs. Interesting stuff but some might find it very offensive. I agree that it was very interesting. It actually spurred me to do some further, factual reading about the things brought out in the book....I've been reading some of the "lost books" of the Bible, the research done regarding the "real"

Reply to Antisemitism claims about "The Passion of the Christ" in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

Before the governor, a crowd completely made up of JewsIs calling for Jesus' death. Maybe that's because that's who would have been in Jerusalem during Passover...a huge crowd of JEWS? Other than the Romans, who were occupying the city, I would imagine most other people avoided Jerusalem during the Holy Days, to avoid the huge crowd of people who came there from all over the area to commemorate the exodus from Egypt. I don't claim

Reply to Antisemitism claims about "The Passion of the Christ" in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

[quote]example 1Early in the movie, Judas receives 30 coins "as promised" for revealing the location of jesus to the high preists. The bag of coins is thrown to Judas, and in slow motion, as the bag drops to the floor and coins spill out, Judas is filmed ON HIS KNEES, PICKING UP THE COINS.Anyone who did not recognize this as antisemitic is either sheltered from a world where hateful people will throw coins at a jew and tell him to pick it up, or are ig