Arkansas mom buys all shoes in closing
Payless store to donate to kids in need
Fox News,
by
Talia Kaplan
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
7/29/2019 4:21:36 AM
An Arkansas mother bought all of the shoes from a closing Payless ShoeSource store to give to children in need before the school year begins.
Carrie Jernigan, a mother of three, told Fox News she bought nearly 1,500 pairs of shoes. She did not disclose how much she paid but told Fox News her receipts indicated she saved about $21,000, although she paid just a fraction of that number. "I'm in the schools a lot and where I live we have a very high poverty rate," Jernigan, the president of the Alma School Board, told Fox News. Alma is between Fayetteville and Fort Smith.
"My immediate thought was,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 7/29/2019 5:00:29 AM (No. 136708)
There will be people who can afford to pay asking for shoes.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 7/29/2019 7:34:30 AM (No. 136773)
What many children need today is something money can't buy, responsible parents.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 7/29/2019 7:53:06 AM (No. 136794)
"a very high poverty rate"...yeah, all those Mexicans, Guatemalans and Hondruans, no doubt.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
lakerman1 7/29/2019 8:12:03 AM (No. 136809)
I don't like being a cynic, and while I salute this woman for her generosity, I have to wonder how many of the children who receive the shoes have parents who are smokers or drinkers. (I also wonder that, in cities where turkeys are given away at Thanksgiving, and young tattooed people stand in line overnight for the freebie.)
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 7/29/2019 8:42:56 AM (No. 136841)
Our towns give away basic school supplies for children "in need". I talked to the sister of one such chick (who btw had 3 kids with 3 different men) who went to such an event and she said they waited in line for HOURS. I asked her how much those supplies cost and she said for one kid about $20.00 I asked her if that time wasted just to get free stuff was worth it. It's like a light bulb went off. It's like when Dairy Queen has their annual ice cream cone give away. To stand in line for so long for a $.99 cone is mind boggling. Having said all that, this woman has a good heart and is a much better person than I am.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
RU4us 7/29/2019 8:43:28 AM (No. 136843)
Mr. Jernigan said his wife was most excited about what she was going to do with that $21,000 she saved.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
papasparky 7/29/2019 10:31:49 AM (No. 136934)
By the time the life span of this post is exhausted, it will have collected enough "sour grapes" for the Jernigans to make a sizable batch of very tart wine.
Acknowledged -- Some "valid grapes" are among the clusters, but the sheer lack of appreciation for the good ones points out a growing cynicism in our culture.
Have glad tidings of great joy become so antiquated as to be out of vogue in our enlightened society
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 7/29/2019 11:04:39 AM (No. 136979)
I'm going to take a wild guess that the Jernigan's a Christians practicing what their faith teaches. And they did it much more effectively than the government, which would have spent 5 times as much to accomplish the same thing.
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zephyrgirl 7/29/2019 11:28:13 AM (No. 137005)
Acknowledging the reality of some "needy" families isn't sour grapes. It is a caution to people who can easily get taken for their good intentions. I know of what I speak having a classic welfare mooch among my in-laws. Two degrees in employable fields, four children by four different men, working for cash under the table, lined up for every church box and handout offered, yet wouldn't even go pick it up herself, and scammed her elderly mother into picking up the loot from the church for her. One of her children was humiliated when she was recognized by the youth director who helped load the loot into the car. I've heard similar stories from EMT friends who've been shocked by the cars, homes and fully-stocked bars they've seen in the homes of "needy" families receiving food boxes during the holidays. There's an element of people who will take anything free regardless of whether they need it or not.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 7/29/2019 11:43:50 AM (No. 137017)
When I was a teen, our church took Christmas baskets to the truly poor folks in our small town in central Fla. The pastor's of the churches knew who really deserved some help, and who were just drunks who drank away their money.
Today we have tons of illegals who are poor and lots of drunks and druggies who spend their money on drugs and booze. And we give trillions in welfare, food stamps, free housing and more.
I'm sorry. If you can't get one of the myriad 'free stuff' programs from the feds, or the free stuff from the city, county and schools (free lunch, breakfasts, too) I wonder if you are actually poor.
Getting pretty cynical in my old age. Willing to help genuine poor who are Americans and not drug or alcohol abusers, but I think that those who meet that and are not already getting $40K a year in subsidies are about six people.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 7/29/2019 12:52:24 PM (No. 137061)
Sorry for the double post but #6 wins the Best Post of the Day. Maybe for all week.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Smart11344 7/29/2019 2:08:33 PM (No. 137163)
I will applaud this lady. There are truly needed people. Yes, I know there are many who abuse free materials. How about that woman who had 30 Obama phones and was headed back for more.
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Freely give, freely receive. We have become so cynical because of what is happening around us; and rightly so. Sometimes things aren't as they seem. Sometimes they are. That's when we lose it.
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