Unemployed Ohio woman charged for taking $2.87 from fountain

[SuperHornet]

The PROPER response: Make her put it back and get her a burger. That way, there's no need to bust out the cuffs and do the stinking paperwork, she's fed, and there's no chance she blows it on booze.

All bases covered....

SH, she has done this before probably. It needs to go on record that she was caught. Then, when she gets caught the next time, they can begin the stiffer penalties.

Hogwash. Whatever happened to grace in this world? Besides, you can't just start arresting people on "probablies." At that rate, we'll turn into Napoleonic France.

[Cap'n Cat]

She only wished to buy a meal.

An Ohio woman was collared for petty theft after she was caught swiping $2.87 in change from a fountain last week.

Deidre Romine said she had just fished the coins out of the Logan County Courthouse fountain in Bellefontaine to buy food when a cop approached her on Oct. 7.


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Welcome to Obama's America.

What?

Poor woman's still waiting for the wealth to trickle down to her as was promised when she voted for Reagan in 1980!

[Baldy]

Welcome to Obama's America.

What?

Poor woman's still waiting for the wealth to trickle down to her as was promised when she voted for Reagan in 1980!

Shit Cappy, she was pulling down 6 figures in the 80's and early 90's. Now, all she's getting from 0bama is...

TRICKLE DOWN POVERTY.

Failed Obama Policies Put More Americans In Poverty

Obamanomics: As the president began the first year of his second term, the U.S. poverty rate rose to a level not seen since the 1960s. What we have here is a colossal failure of government policy.

The Census Bureau says that 50 million Americans, roughly one in six — almost 17% — are living below the poverty line, which is defined as earnings of less than $23,021 a year for a family of four. Apparently 20% of the nation's children are living in poverty.

We learn this not from a screaming New York Times or Washington Post headline. Nor have we learned it from any of the networks or major dailies that are relentless cheerleaders for Barack Obama. This news is found in an Associated Press story carried by the British Daily Mail that is more focused on alleged shrinking aid for the poor than it is on the grim data.

Of course this is what we'd expect, given that the mainstream press is so busy praising Obama that it misses — probably willfully — the disastrous economy over which he's presided.

The 50 million Americans living below the poverty line aren't lone markers of Obama's failure.

Since the economy began its tentative recovery just a few months into his first term, the unemployment rate has been nothing but ugly. It sits now at 7.7%, down from its peak of 10% in October 2009.

While that might seem an improvement, it's not.

As we noted a month ago, "just 58.6% of Americans work today, down from 60.6% when Obama took office." If the labor force participation rate were the same as it was when Obama was inaugurated, the unemployment rate would be higher than 12%.

Another sorry marker is annual GDP growth.

Obama's average has been less than 2% per quarter, annualized. In the last quarter of 2012, it was an almost invisible 0.4%.

For all of 2011, GDP growth was 1.8%, in 2012 it was 2.2%, well below the 2.5% to 3% pace that most economists believe is the norm. And, by the way, the White House had forecast 4% growth in each of these years.

Again, bear in mind that the recession lifted in June 2009, before Obama's policies could have had a positive impact on the economy. The economic stagnation and our jobless recovery have occurred after the implementation of his policies — the nearly $1 trillion stimulus, tax hikes, ObamaCare, hyper-regulation — and during the heat of his class-division rhetoric that has obsessed on government-enforced fairness.

And don't forget, appropriate to the news about growing poverty, that a congressman once congratulated Michelle Obama for her husband's stimulus bill, calling it "the best anti-poverty bill in a generation."

Maybe that lawmaker should revise and extend that remark, as congressmen do when they've made outrageous statements on the record.

Under Obama, the poverty rate grew from 14.3% in 2009 to 15.1% in 2010, then fell to 15% in 2011 before jumping to today's sorry rate. A man who has promoted himself as a defender of the poor and middle class should have a better record. But as long as he refuses to give up on failed left-wing policies, he never will.

[travelinman67]

We are weathering the failure of progessive policies.

The figures cited in the article are "cooked" govt. numbers. The real damage is FAR worse than the govt. has confessed. Unfortunately, the prog. demagogues have succeeded in distracting voters attention away from the economic cataclysm through relatively benign "social" policy debate. While Rome burns, the leaders bicker about whose "beliefs" are to be "validated" by the govt.; classes of the insecure vie for the title of most downtrodden; and this entire dysfunctional maelstrom is cheerily fed by media and pols who profit by the discord.

Yet seemingly intelligent prog. voters continue to fuel this idiocy...

...SMFH

[D1B]

We are weathering the failure of progessive policies.

The figures cited in the article are "cooked" govt. numbers. The real damage is FAR worse than the govt. has confessed. Unfortunately, the prog. demagogues have succeeded in distracting voters attention away from the economic cataclysm through relatively benign "social" policy debate. While Rome burns, the leaders bicker about whose "beliefs" are to be "validated" by the govt.; classes of the insecure vie for the title of most downtrodden; and this entire dysfunctional maelstrom is cheerily fed by media and pols who profit by the discord.

Yet seemingly intelligent prog. voters continue to fuel this idiocy...

...SMFH

Yeah, Fatso, we all miss the days of conk rule - endless wars and saber rattling, economic catastrophe, massive corruption, Wall Street morality as public policy, vilification of the working class, environmental destruction and piss poor leadership.

[Baldy]

We are weathering the failure of progessive policies.

The figures cited in the article are "cooked" govt. numbers. The real damage is FAR worse than the govt. has confessed. Unfortunately, the prog. demagogues have succeeded in distracting voters attention away from the economic cataclysm through relatively benign "social" policy debate. While Rome burns, the leaders bicker about whose "beliefs" are to be "validated" by the govt.; classes of the insecure vie for the title of most downtrodden; and this entire dysfunctional maelstrom is cheerily fed by media and pols who profit by the discord.

Yet seemingly intelligent prog. voters continue to fuel this idiocy...

...SMFH

Yeah, Fatso, we all miss the days of conk rule - endless wars and saber rattling, economic catastrophe, massive corruption, Wall Street morality as public policy, vilification of the working class, environmental destruction and piss poor leadership.

You gotta point, D. Under 6 years of Donk rule, The Middle East is at peace, and places like Afghanistan, Libya, and Egypt are tourist hot spots, the economy is growing at a record pace with tremendously low unemployment. The corruption in Washington has never been as nonexistent as it is now. Wall Street players such as Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, etc. have unrigged the system out of their favor. Despite the statistics saying otherwise, the "working class" has never had it as good as they do now, wages are rising at record pace, and everyone who wants a job can just about get one. The destruction of our environment has ceased....no more toxins are being discharged into our streams, rivers, and waterways, birds aren't being killed by windmills, and our food supply is no longer being wasted to produce unnecessary, wasteful, and expensive ethanol.

The past 6 years has convinced me...0bama needs to be named dicktaster for life.

[YoUDeeMan]

You gotta point, D. Under 6 years of Donk rule, The Middle East is at peace, and places like Afghanistan, Libya, and Egypt are tourist hot spots, the economy is growing at a record pace with tremendously low unemployment. The corruption in Washington has never been as nonexistent as it is now. Wall Street players such as Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, etc. have unrigged the system out of their favor. Despite the statistics saying otherwise, the "working class" has never had it as good as they do now, wages are rising at record pace, and everyone who wants a job can just about get one. The destruction of our environment has ceased....no more toxins are being discharged into our streams, rivers, and waterways, birds aren't being killed by windmills, and our food supply is no longer being wasted to produce unnecessary, wasteful, and expensive ethanol.

The past 6 years has convinced me...0bama needs to be named dicktaster for life.

You forgot that Obama has closed Gitmo and he respects the privacy of other nations, their people, and their leaders...oh, and also the privacy of US citizens.

"France is the latest in a growing list of nations — Germany, Brazil and Mexico included — demanding explanations from Washington. A report published on Monday said the U.S. swept up 70 million French telephone records and text messages and recorded some private conversations.

President Francois Hollande's office expressed "profound reprobation," saying the spying violated the privacy of French citizens. The White House said some news reports have distorted the work of U.S. surveillance programs, but said Obama acknowledged to Hollande in a telephone conversation that some reports have raised "legitimate questions for our friends and allies."'

http://entertainment.verizon.com/news/r ... _by_nsa-ap" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Funny, Verizon puts the story under "entertainment."

[D1B]

Yeah, Fatso, we all miss the days of conk rule - endless wars and saber rattling, economic catastrophe, massive corruption, Wall Street morality as public policy, vilification of the working class, environmental destruction and piss poor leadership.

You gotta point, D. Under 6 years of Donk rule, The Middle East is at peace, and places like Afghanistan, Libya, and Egypt are tourist hot spots, the economy is growing at a record pace with tremendously low unemployment. The corruption in Washington has never been as nonexistent as it is now. Wall Street players such as Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, etc. have unrigged the system out of their favor. Despite the statistics saying otherwise, the "working class" has never had it as good as they do now, wages are rising at record pace, and everyone who wants a job can just about get one. The destruction of our environment has ceased....no more toxins are being discharged into our streams, rivers, and waterways, birds aren't being killed by windmills, and our food supply is no longer being wasted to produce unnecessary, wasteful, and expensive ethanol.

The past 6 years has convinced me...0bama needs to be named dicktaster for life.

Yet, if your personal salad-tosser, Cruz were to become president today, all would be well.

Still cleaning up your messes. Shit don't happen overnight, Squiggy.

[Baldy]

You gotta point, D. Under 6 years of Donk rule, The Middle East is at peace, and places like Afghanistan, Libya, and Egypt are tourist hot spots, the economy is growing at a record pace with tremendously low unemployment. The corruption in Washington has never been as nonexistent as it is now. Wall Street players such as Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, etc. have unrigged the system out of their favor. Despite the statistics saying otherwise, the "working class" has never had it as good as they do now, wages are rising at record pace, and everyone who wants a job can just about get one. The destruction of our environment has ceased....no more toxins are being discharged into our streams, rivers, and waterways, birds aren't being killed by windmills, and our food supply is no longer being wasted to produce unnecessary, wasteful, and expensive ethanol.

The past 6 years has convinced me...0bama needs to be named dicktaster for life.

Yet, if your personal salad-tosser, Cruz were to become president today, all would be well.

Still cleaning up your messes. Shit don't happen overnight, Squiggy.

I agree with you, D.

0bama has got to make it much worse before it can get any better.

[Chizzang]

After reading through this pissing match:
all one can say is "we have a broken two party system"

The last two presidents have been disasters
The right provided us with a silver spoon retarded puppet
The left has provided us with an ego maniac con-man

Bad news all the way around

[D1B]

After reading through this pissing match:
all one can say is "we have a broken two party system"

The last two presidents have been disasters
The right provided us with a silver spoon retarded puppet
The left has provided us with an ego maniac con-man

Bad news all the way around

Ego maniac cuz he don't take shit from the racist, obstructionist conks?

[Chizzang]

After reading through this pissing match:
all one can say is "we have a broken two party system"

The last two presidents have been disasters
The right provided us with a silver spoon retarded puppet
The left has provided us with an ego maniac con-man

Bad news all the way around

Ego maniac cuz he don't take shit from the racist, obstructionist conks?

Ego Maniac because his "appointments" have been among the worst in U.S. history
and he won't take any advice on how to fix his own messes

[89Hen]

Shit don't happen overnight, Squiggy.

Or sometimes not at all. indeed

[blueballs]

Ego maniac cuz he don't take shit from the racist, obstructionist conks?

Ego Maniac because his "appointments" have been among the worst in U.S. history
and he won't take any advice on how to fix his own messes

Hell, he's got to acknowledge the mess(es) before he takes any advice on how to fix it... think about it, the guy has any number of scandals going on right under his nose but never takes responsibility or even knows what is going on... Benghazi, Solyndra, IRS, Fast and Furious, Obamacare Implementation, FISA, NSA, AP phone records, James Rosen, etc....

First Obama doesn't know about it, then promises to "get to the bottom of it," then it gets swept under the rug by his lapdog media.

[D1B]

Ego Maniac because his "appointments" have been among the worst in U.S. history
and he won't take any advice on how to fix his own messes

Hell, he's got to acknowledge the mess(es) before he takes any advice on how to fix it... think about it, the guy has any number of scandals going on right under his nose but never takes responsibility or even knows what is going on... Benghazi, Solyndra, IRS, Fast and Furious, Obamacare Implementation, FISA, NSA, AP phone records, James Rosen, etc....

First Obama doesn't know about it, then promises to "get to the bottom of it," then it gets swept under the rug by his lapdog media.

"No excuse" - Obama responding to the website issue.

Will be a cold day in hell before a conk admits he failed.

[89Hen]

"No excuse" - Obama responding to the website issue.

Will be a cold day in hell before a conk admits he failed.

I admit he failed. Brrrrrr.

[Ibanez]

At the risk of sounding callous, the law is the law regardless of your employment situation. The police should have had her return the money and then bought her a meal and/or taken her to a shelter. Should she have been arrested and charged for taking $2.87 from a public fountain? No.