I paid 300 for my rescue dog and I’m guessing I’ve spent at least 8k on her since she was 2 months (she’s 1.5 years now). Vaccinations, food, medication for normal puppy illnesses, vet check ups, grooming, boarding while I was on vacation, toys to keep her from eating my house while teething....it adds up.The adoption…

> Don’t you think people would if it were that simple?

“and cannot do a single thing about it”

Couldn’t they choose to get a different job and not live in such an expensive area?

Look, its real simple:

His girlfriend looks like she’s 20 years older than him and really likes meth....

You just ate up the prediction a lobbying group paid for, and you’re questioning others education.

He looks about exactly like I expected. Less backwards hat, though.

I have no sympathy for this man.

I’ve put hundreds of hours and my girlfriend’s put all her money into the car.

Look at Tesla. Their workers are worked to the breaking point, aren’t paid enough compared to the cost of living in the area, and cannot do a single thing about it.

Venezuela begs to differ.

Out of curiosity how did those rural hospitals exist before the ACA?

Generally-speaking, there’s ton of culture and stuff to do that’s relatively easy to access. Once you have a certain income, it becomes a veritable playground.

So to all the white women who are engaging in stay off Twitter day I hope you spend the day not tweeting about Trump beating the shit out of the white women who put this monster into the white house. Black women have been dealing with this shit forever but hey a white woman screams about it & now we, meaning us black…

An auto company; ‘we want to set up a factory in your country’
Union ”That’s awesome!We’ll be eternally grateful and totally wont blackmail you if we get too expensive in future”

To clarify, these aren’t the subsidies that go to individual insurance holders on the exchanges. These are separate subsidies paid to insurance companies that lose money on the exchanges, to encourage them to stay in unprofitable or high risk markets. The subsidies paid to people who are buying insurance can’t be…

I drive for Lyft and overwhelmingly most of my passengers are low-income riders who can’t afford a car. They feel that Lyft is faster and safer than the bus.

This. There was no reason for the blood draw in the first place except as a hail Mary that there *might* be something in the guy’s system they could use to pin blame for the crash. Payne’s line about wanting it to clear him of wrongdoing is bull.

What’s not often mentioned in these stories is the reason he was trying to draw the blood: A police chase caused that fatal crash, and they were looking for ways to shift the blame to the victims. Every aspect to the story is so fucking terrible/unsurprising.