everyone is going to have stories that contradict this one, the point of the article is to expose a broken system

Yup, raising kids is very expensive and very hard.

At his age, I doubt entry into a new career is possible, especially when educational costs would likely be needed to get new skills. Sometimes you just get to a point where a low-paid career is your only real option for life in terms of what you can do well, at least that’s been my experience in my teaching and my…

Before I saw the skin color of the writer, I was going to write a post about keeping your twigs n’ berries wrapped, but then the photo gave me pause. Would the comment be considered as racist based on the skin color of the writer? But I’ll try anyway.

That is an interesting stat on the no quarterly earnings or less than 10k a year thing. I wonder about who might be included in there though. I used to work in payroll and I had employees who would be with us a couple of months, then family services would find them and they’d just disappear. I don’t know how much they…

I think its stated in the article that he was making that money and making the child support payments. It was only after he had employment issues that he wasn’t able to.

You apparently missed the bit about his being a UPS driver where wages were garnished 70%.

This is an excellent article. I think the perspective of the fathers side in these situations always gets overlooked by the implication that he is just some “deadbeat baby-Daddy” who doesn’t care about his kids, rather than a father trying to make ends meet.

So basically confirming what black and brown people were saying all across the country for the past 40 years.

This feels a lot like Lee Atwater’s famous admission about dog whistles except cranked up to 1 million.

But obviously the US doesn’t have an institutionalized racism problem. That’s just propaganda of the pot smoking hippies on the left.

And using the example of Portugal where I believe they decriminalized the use of all drugs, teen usage rates went down as well as decreases in death and other health issues related to overdose and needle sharing. There really are innumerable benefits to decriminalizing all drug use to our society, but I think the…

The only thing shocking about it is that Ehrlichman actually admitted it. I’m so used to this shit at dog whistle frequency that it’s shocking to hear it at an audible level.

I’m beginning to think Nixon and his staff were a bit of an asshole.

Nixon can eat a dick, Theon Greyjoy-style. God, he was literally the worst.

I’m shocked. So shocked.

Almost like the drug war was invented to replace Jim Crow.

Take Mary Jane off the Schedule I list and watch crime fall like leaves in October.

He doesn’t want to be pinned down on anything so his standard response for everything boils down to “maybe, maybe not, I only know what I’ve read, you are the one saying this is true not me”. He is an idiot and a true huckster.