But that’s how employment works. There’s no guarantee that your employee will stick around forever, and I would guess that in the entertainment/dance world, you come to expect that people leave productions for other jobs.

So it’s about ethics in backup dancing?

she can’t sing either

You guys, I can’t today with celebrity news. I can only think of those 22 kids who got killed last night. And this doesn’t mean I never think about all the other people dying everywhere else in the world, but today, I think of Manchester and no gossip can make me happy.

Based on what’s publicly known about their respective upbringings, neither of them is exactly well equipped to respond to this situation in an adult manner.

That part infuriated me. For one thing, if you’re disabled, by definition you can’t “go back to work.” Second, if you’re on disability when you aren’t actually disabled, that’s a crime, not a “go back to work” issue. Third, most people who weren’t born with silver spoons have friends or family who are in the military…

I hear the key to becoming wealthy is inheriting it from your rich parents and/or grandparents bootstraps. You buy some nice qualityh bootstraps and then you pull yourself up by them.

The middle class has historically been some of the most hostile towards the working class. They see in the working class their past (whether immediate or generational) and they are determined never to go back there. So they lash out like spiteful children, making up fantasies to justify why they deserve what they…

I mean there’s middle class and there’s middle class. If you’re white and middle class and live in a suburb where everyone around you is the same then you really have no concept of what life is like for people trapped in a cycle of poverty. They just assume you must be poor because you don’t want to work. It doesn’t…

Though we all know Republicans hate children. It’s just the embryos and fetuses they like.

Plus a lot of people in these programs are children too.

Amass enough money that you can walk through life without witnessing other people’s suffering first hand.

Ah yes, the tired assumption that all people on welfare are unemployed by choice or unemployed at all.

Maybe you should give up your iPhone. Poor people and sick people are obviously bad or they wouldn’t be poor or sick. /s

They need people to go to work!? Motherfucker, I work about 38 hours a week (corporate overlords won’t allow us to even get close to overtime) for $10.25 an hour. I am on my state’s poor folks insurance (ACCHS). How much more can I be fucking doing? I am mentally ill and a recovering addict. I absolutely need my…

He’s trying to resurrect the politically ancient welfare queen rhetoric that was used during the eighties and nineties. It was dog whistle politics that targeted black people living in poverty. The doofus doesn’t seem to understand that white people living in poverty played a role in this election.

Or you have to pay for childcare at a rate that outpaces your own wages?

There’s a debate that needs to happen about the appropriate level of social welfare. That debate can’t happen because one of the major parties insists that level is “zero” and characterizes people who rely on the social safety net as lazy entitled drains on society (I’ve dealt with those folks on occasion, this…