Jodi Ernst, her fav shoes (maybe) to cover with bread bags

[Miigwech]

[link:http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/photos/high-heeled-shoes-wild-horse-gun-shoes-13579648/image-13579702|

[narnian60]

1. Wow.

Those are some ugly-ass shoes.

[Miigwech]

2. yes

... so they are well suited to the wearer.

[riversedge]

4. I cringed when I saw them

:wow

[BlueCaliDem]

3. Gross. The idea of putting my foot into a dead animal's foot is really gross. And those

things absolutely FUGLY.

[Miigwech]

5. I agree

Jodie's ideas a akin to wearing those shoes, don't you think?

[BlueCaliDem]

6. Oh, yeah, I think. That woman is out of her mind. But then again, I believe lower-level Republican

(politicians, propagandists, talking heads) have to be in order to continue being a Republican. I know that Koch Bros (gov't-hatin' Libertarians) and other assorted billionaires are far more intelligent than they want to appear, but lower-level Republicans have to dumb it down for their dumbed-down Base in order to appeal to them. After a while, those lower-level Republican shysters lose IQ percentage points and begin to get that glassy-eyed look like Palin and Bachmann.

[UTUSN]

7. AWww ya beat me to it. I was going to say "Do breadbags come in camoflage?!1"

Welcome to DU!1

[Miigwech]

9. That's funny

Thanks. I thought someone would post something about shoes or plastic bread bags that would be funny.

[gwheezie]

8. My mom made us do that

We weren't poor. My parents were depression era and cheap. Blue collar hard working and we all got one pair of shoes and mom used to make us cover them in bread wrappers she also made me wear my brothers old clothes. Nothing got thrown away and we used everything until it fell apart. But this is how they survived the depression. That never left them so even though we were never poor they didn't spend a penny they didn't have to.
They were right. Both in their late 80's and living well on the money they saved. Of course their kids were frequently humiliated in school.

[Miigwech]

10. She's not the only one

She thinks we will all cry over her story ........ what you say is so true to that generation. I'm sorry but plenty of folks have been dirt poor but they always find a way to survive, you have no choice about it. I live in a very poor place and belong to a Native American tribe .... she had it better then (even with bread bags on her shoes) then the poor people, living here today. What she eluding to is her type of poor people were superior at being poor, because her kind (white, family values folks), didn't ask for a "handout", unlike the poor of today. Her message is coded to appeal to the Repub's hate for the poor.

[gwheezie]

11. Oh I know I thought Ernst was disgusting

I don't know how you could be poor at one time and climb out of that dismal place and not want to help the next person.
My mom was homeless during the depression along with her brother because you grandmother left her abusive husband. What few jobs there were went to men. When my grandmother tried to find s job she was told to use her money maker. Can you imagine that. My great grandmother managed to find a job that had to support all of them. My grandmother was hospitalized at one point with malnutrition and my mom and uncle were put in an orphanage.
My other grandmother was a sharecropper.
FDR saved my family. But I think because both my parents lived through that struggle they had that experience so they never felt that poor people were lazy Or didn't need help. Both sides of my family took the help they got from the government. It saved them.

[RockaFowler]

12. Those are hideous

And they look uncomfortable

Who could wear those things??