2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFrom Nixon's plain cloth coat to Ernst's bread bags on shoes.
Wing nut messaging never changes.
Nobel_Twaddle_III
(323 posts)I can't believe they did not have boots on the farm.
me thinks she is full of shit
3catwoman3
(24,083 posts)...she must have had boots or she would have been full of pig $h!t, wouldn't you think? (I do not speak from experience.)
Nobel_Twaddle_III
(323 posts)they changed into shoes when they got to school.
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The other line "all they owned was their sweat." well did they not own the farm?
and the livestock?
I think she is full of shit.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)farm? Did she eat spaghetti $.39 a bag and eggs for every meal? Did she wash dishes in the school lunch room to pay for her and her brother's hot lunches? How poor was she?
dflprincess
(28,089 posts)I think most people are going to think that's nuts.
AndreaCG
(2,331 posts)The genitals of politicians.
kairos12
(12,891 posts)karynnj
(59,507 posts)I grew up in Northern Indiana. We had plastic boots - hand me downs maybe, but boots. I really don't think the plastic bags would even have a high success rate - and if they broke, the shoes would get pretty wet! Not to mention, I really can't imagine they work for snow.
kairos12
(12,891 posts)murielm99
(30,779 posts)People wore boots to do the chores. Sometimes they were rubber or gum boots that fit over their shoes. The town kids wore rubber boots over their shoes, too.
My husband comes from a long line of Iowa farmers. No one wore bread bags to school, no matter how poor they were.
CTyankee
(63,914 posts)New England. Boots have to be tough. I have low boots and higher boots. slushy snow would destroy the bags and the thought of them on any ice is just scary.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)Wonder Bread builds strong bodies 12 ways.
CTyankee
(63,914 posts)isn't that just like the poor?
Midnight Writer
(21,823 posts)and inside my shoes so the other kids wouldn't see.
What a moran.
Midnight Writer
(21,823 posts)Damn that "Big Government". If she didn't have decent boots, it was because her family didn't care enough to buy them for her.
More likely, though, is that she is a lying sack of political slime.