Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Whatacountry

As long as we're on the subject...
Texas police learn COVID-positive illegal immigrants sent to local hotels, after Whataburger encounter [More]

I'm looking at a menu listing for a Pico de Gallo Burger Whatameal® for $8.89 and I'm thinking for that amount you could buy two pounds of chicken and some rice and feed a family. I recall having a conversation years ago with a friend at work, a black guy, incidentally, who went with me for M1 Garand qualification with the DCM (this was pre-CMP), and he had a similar observation about how people on public assistance would go into 7-Eleven and spend the price of a family meal on chips and soda.

"People don't know how to be poor anymore," he told me, relating how things had changed since he was growing up.

UPDATE: That's a lot of burgers!

Over 40,000 Mostly-Unvaccinated Migrants Released By Biden Skip Out On ICE Appointments ...  just 13% are reporting to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office as instructed.

[Via bondmen]

5 comments:

bondmen said...

Speaking of consumer food choices I never cease to be amazed at Walmart and Sam's Club shopping baskets of some buyers with all the junk, sugar and processed food inhabiting their carts. All one needs do is look at the figure pushing the cart to see the results. When will poor people (poor in information and truth) ever realize their personal, individual health care is in their own two hands?

Henry said...

Link is a self-referential blogger link.

Anonymous said...

13% reporting as instructed?

Damn, that's a win.

And of that 13% how many are denied a spot on the gravy train we fund?

Bradley A Graham said...

Poor is Ramen noodles, Rich is McDonalds.

Henry said...

"We did not know this," he said. "No one told the city of La Joya. No one told the police department that these people were here and no one told us that these people were possibly ill."

What a moron.
These people came prepared to jump an international border illegally, and he expects them to play "Mother May I" with him?