Kentucky woman charged with trading sex for gas card

People are driven to do many things when their livelihoods are threatened.
It is easy for we middle class fatcats to sit in judgement on women whose very existences--along with the existence of their families--are threatened by circumstances which they cannot control.
This not a new circumstance. The question of intolerable and inescapable poverty has been growing in this nation at least since 1981. I can remember when availability of fuel became just about as critical in 1973.
And I can remember when single mothers traded sex for food during WWII--maybe even some married mothers!--whose families were up against the blade--as the the Great Depression wound down during the early forties...

@ Jedediah Redman
People are driven to do many things when their livelihoods are threatened.
It is easy for we middle class fatcats to sit in judgement on women whose very existences--along with the existence of their families--are threatened by circumstances which they cannot control.
This not a new circumstance. The question of intolerable and inescapable poverty has been growing in this nation at least since 1981. I can remember when availability of fuel became just about as critical in 1973.
And I can remember when single mothers traded sex for food during WWII--maybe even some married mothers!--whose families were up against the blade--as the the Great Depression wound down during the early forties...

Let's pray those horrible things won't repeat this time.

@ Kesavan Unnikrishnan
Let's pray those horrible things won't repeat this time.

Seems like it's already begun. Doing something like this would never croos my mind, but then again...not all women are creative in finding ways--legally--to earn a few bucks.

@ Kesavan Unnikrishnan
Let's pray those horrible things won't repeat this time.

Its probably not going to help much to pray; but I think we can count on the statement that not all women are creative in finding ways--legally--to earn a few bucks.
I'm thinking that it may get bad enough that even some of the judgemental old ladies--of both sexes--on this forum will reach the point of desperation where nothing may be unthinkable to get enough food for themselves and their families...

You must relish living in such a deluded state of pessimism.
Everything with you is an extreme version of hopelessness and emphatic delusions of disparity and incongruous realisms.

@ Jedediah Redman
Its probably not going to help much to pray; but I think we can count on the statement that not all women are creative in finding ways--legally--to earn a few bucks.
I'm thinking that it may get bad enough that even some of the judgemental old ladies--of both sexes--on this forum will reach the point of desperation where nothing may be unthinkable to get enough food for themselves and their families...

I'd have to tell you that in my case, I would NEVER resort to laying on my back to make a buck or two. I have more self-respect than that. If I had to clean toilets or some other less-pleasurable job...it's better than selling my soul and body.

@ Debra Myers (skyangel)
I'd have to tell you that in my case, I would NEVER resort to laying on my back to make a buck or two. I have more self-respect than that. If I had to clean toilets or some other less-pleasurable job...it's better than selling my soul and body.

I hate to break it to you, lucky; but it may soon come to a situation where the job of cleaning toilets is considered desirable work.
I don't know how old you are; but this good life we are enjoying at present didn't even get started until 1944 or 1945.
And things were good in the thirties compared to how they were in the late nineteenth century when kids first began to leave the farm to try to get work in the cities--just as all of the immigrants were coming into Ellis Island from Europe.
But maybe you'll continue to be lucky...

@ RCB2875
You must relish living in such a deluded state of pessimism.
Everything with you is an extreme version of hopelessness and emphatic delusions of disparity and incongruous realisms.

Right!
I'm delusional, arcie bee.
And you're the one who intends to lead a revolution which will end the congressional pork barrel and transfer all the funds from earmarks to building a fence across the southern border?

@ Jedediah Redman
I hate to break it to you, lucky; but it may soon come to a situation where the job of cleaning toilets is considered desirable work.
I don't know how old you are; but this good life we are enjoying at present didn't even get started until 1944 or 1945.
And things were good in the thirties compared to how they were in the late nineteenth century when kids first began to leave the farm to try to get work in the cities--just as all of the immigrants were coming into Ellis Island from Europe.
But maybe you'll continue to be lucky...

Well, I've been called a lot of things in my life, but never "lucky", Jed! I'm old enough to probably be your daughter or grand-daughter (49). I grew up on a diary farm, where we had to do chores and help my dad, uncle and gramps...in the fields and in the barn. You said that it might come to pass that cleaning toilets would be a desirable job...heck, it's already begun to be that just that!

My point was of course that you said in desperate circumstances you would stoop to that before engaging in the other measures under discussion.

I say people being judgemental toward the woman who is getting $100 bucks worth of gasoline might find the toilet cleaning jobs already filled by the time they reached her level of desperation.

I suppose one might say that one'd die before so debauching oneself; but I still maintain that one should never say never.

Arcie bee will of course simply reform congress if things get tough..!

@ Debra Myers (skyangel)
Well, I've been called a lot of things in my life, but never "lucky", Jed! I'm old enough to probably be your daughter or grand-daughter (49). I grew up on a diary farm, where we had to do chores and help my dad, uncle and gramps...in the fields and in the barn. You said that it might come to pass that cleaning toilets would be a desirable job...heck, it's already begun to be that just that!

I have a daughter just about your age--she is fifty.

@ Jedediah Redman
I have a daughter just about your age--she is fifty.

I will be in October. And although there is that "never say never"...I still have to say never about selling myself for money or gas cards! LOL! (But then again, my kids are grown and I'm single.)