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Cha

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28. I think Nance stated it well on another thread too..

Wed Jan 21, 2015, 03:22 AM

Jan 2015

"But I don't believe that (most) posters are laughing at poor people, or what they do to survive.

I think the laughter is in response to two things:

(a) Tonight's GOP response was their opportunity to highlight what their party's plans are to address the nation's current challenges - from foreign policy to job creation, from the economy to immigration, from the protection of voting rights to the right to earn a living wage - and Ernst prattled on about bags on her shoes, a personal story that had no relevance to the SOTU - or to anything else.

(b) The hypocrisy of a GOP representative, speaking tonight on behalf of her entire party, talking about the plight of the poor - when her party would just as soon the current poor of the country wear bread-bags on their shoes, and be grateful for them - and stop looking for a "handout from the gov't" to be able to afford shoes.

I'm sorry you are upset. I truly am. But I DO understand why."

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many of us here wore bread bags in the winter [View all] marym625 Jan 2015 OP

I think she either mis-remembered it or told it to a speechwriter Peregrine Took Jan 2015 #1

Could be marym625 Jan 2015 #8

It got lost in translation from one of her servants. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2015 #37

She told the bread-bag story on election night, so she really should have bullwinkle428 Jan 2015 #51

She got her story from the Great Depression. Rex Jan 2015 #2

oh! that makes sense marym625 Jan 2015 #7

those weren't plastic bags though. ND-Dem Jan 2015 #13

that's how she got her nickname Enrique Jan 2015 #24

Yes, we put baggies over daughters' shoes elleng Jan 2015 #3

kinda my point marym625 Jan 2015 #5

she wants to kneecap the poor while pretending she used to be poor. she;s a pernicious liar. ND-Dem Jan 2015 #14

That may be true. elleng Jan 2015 #16

Or maybe... yallerdawg Jan 2015 #4

Ah! marym625 Jan 2015 #6

And she "walked beans and fed hogs" too... Contrary1 Jan 2015 #9

doesn't sound poor to me marym625 Jan 2015 #10

On a BUS??? Hmmmph. Wimp. Buns_of_Fire Jan 2015 #17

That's nothing! marym625 Jan 2015 #19

That's bad, but there were also vicious pumas, lurking in the crevasses, Buns_of_Fire Jan 2015 #29

pumas are definitely scary marym625 Jan 2015 #39

You had books? All our lessons were written in chalk on the backs of coal shovels. Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2015 #49

And when it rained Bettie Jan 2015 #53

You had shovels, marym625 Jan 2015 #55

You had a furnace? Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2015 #70

touch�! marym625 Jan 2015 #72

That's what I was thinking....what was the point of this 'story', anyway? Especially coming from SammyWinstonJack Jan 2015 #45

exactly. marym625 Jan 2015 #54

The moral of the story is work hard, azmom Jan 2015 #77

she walked beans? took them for outings? ND-Dem Jan 2015 #15

I wondered the same thing marym625 Jan 2015 #20

Soybeans. murielm99 Jan 2015 #31

oh! marym625 Jan 2015 #40

Ya got me. Contrary1 Jan 2015 #33

Please let me know what you find out marym625 Jan 2015 #41

She also plowed the fields, worked construction with her father, and worked the biscuit line B Calm Jan 2015 #57

Ha! good one. n/t marym625 Jan 2015 #59

Well, when you're a Republican ... NanceGreggs Jan 2015 #11

Oh my dog! marym625 Jan 2015 #12

If you wore bread bags on your feet and a lunch sack as a hat as a kid, in order to keep warm . . . Major Hogwash Jan 2015 #25

LOL.. Yes, when you don't have anything to cough up about your party's contribution in giving the Cha Jan 2015 #35

She's a liar with no real poor life experience. joshcryer Jan 2015 #18

exactly marym625 Jan 2015 #21

She comes across as a total and utter phony; her every utterance brings KingCharlemagne Jan 2015 #22

the thing for me is.. Joni Ernst cares nothing about the poor.. less than nothing.. she's the one Cha Jan 2015 #23

Thank you, Cha marym625 Jan 2015 #26

I think Nance stated it well on another thread too.. Cha Jan 2015 #28

yep. marym625 Jan 2015 #38

I wonder how many poor people are laughing at her "liddle ol' po' me" story tonight. Major Hogwash Jan 2015 #27

"She hates poor people, that's why she is a Republican!!!!!!" Cutting to the heart of the matter Cha Jan 2015 #30

She hates poor people because she is a republican. SammyWinstonJack Jan 2015 #46

I think many are marym625 Jan 2015 #60

I grew up in a middle class city in S.Cal. My parents had a large family and things were very tight. C Moon Jan 2015 #32

It's not an uncommon story marym625 Jan 2015 #42

Poor poor poor me ....poor poor pitiful me YOHABLO Jan 2015 #34

Joni's anthem DebJ Jan 2015 #36

Perfect! marym625 Jan 2015 #44

yep. marym625 Jan 2015 #43

Good point! I was thinking that last night too - the bags would go INSIDE. Avalux Jan 2015 #47

I have seen one post on DU marym625 Jan 2015 #58

The plastic bags went INSIDE the boots. HappyMe Jan 2015 #48

or you had those over the shoe kind of boots marym625 Jan 2015 #61

Yeah, the dreaded red galoshes! HappyMe Jan 2015 #63

or those metal buckles marym625 Jan 2015 #66

My dad had the kind with those metal clasps. HappyMe Jan 2015 #67

I don't think they made them marym625 Jan 2015 #68

THANK YOU. I grew up in the 70s, and recall wearing them BETWEEN socks bullwinkle428 Jan 2015 #50

Chicago too marym625 Jan 2015 #62

Also, too! ;) You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize what kind of bullwinkle428 Jan 2015 #52

There is at least one post on DU marym625 Jan 2015 #64

In rainy Pacific NW we wore them over shoes Generic Other Jan 2015 #56

Just an inventive way to protect marym625 Jan 2015 #65

Her big grin and tone of voice azmom Jan 2015 #69

Yeah, it sure did. marym625 Jan 2015 #73

Wow, you had bread? deaniac21 Jan 2015 #71

store bought even! marym625 Jan 2015 #74

I did where them one time on the outside only once. dilby Jan 2015 #75

cheap, makeshift ice skates? marym625 Jan 2015 #76