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.

Worse than that, McDonald’s corporate was caught red-handed directly telling their low-level employees to abuse government aid so as to supplement their criminally low wages.

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.

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

And McDonald’s had a home budgeting plan for employees that included income from a second job.

The actual answer is “wherever you’re employed now,” since many, and I believe MOST, adults of working age receiving food assistance are employed. The problem, of course, is that wages are too low. Gee, seems like we could save the government a lot of money if businesses were required to pay employees a WAGE they…

He said it like people who work never need food stamps. Idiot.

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…

Even if you can hold one of those jobs, you will probably need Medicaid and possibly need food assistance. None of those places pays a living wage.

Protip for idiot Republicans: people on food stamps work. Some of them are even serving their country in the military.

No, no, no. See, our Orange Overlords will magnanimously establish fully funded private charitable organizations to provide the same services offered by these wasteful and ineffective government programs. And they will do so immediately, so no one suffers due to a lapse in aid typical when switching from one extremely…

“Small government” = “fucking over poor people”.  Apparently. 

God used to do the best plagues. Locusts, blood, slaying of the first born. Just a hole now? No stamina! SAD!

Entirely possible that some students chose to skip. But for me personally, if I had worked that hard over up to 4 years for my degree, I wouldn’t let that human buttplug keep me away from my own ceremony. I would go there and make a statement so that it’s how *I* choose to make my graduation ceremony count, not how I…

In early 2019, when Mike Pence accedes to the presidency and has a Democratic-majority House and Senate to neuter him, he’ll be the laughingstock he deserves to be. Until then, he’s no laughing matter; he deserves every display of disrespect levelled at him.

Can you imagine shelling out all that money and working that hard just for PENCE to be the speaker? Huge slap in the face.

I wonder how many students just did not go to graduation at all, and what percentage of those were because of Pence.

Really don’t get why US universities get some outsider to do the speech. Even if it was someone I liked or admired doing it, such as a notable scientist in my field like Sir Tim Berners-Lee or John Carmack, I’d rather have one of my lecturers or the Vice-Chancellor do it.