Twice in recent weeks, we’ve gotten to watch hotly anticipated Congressional hearings, in which mostly male…
Twice in recent weeks, we’ve gotten to watch hotly anticipated Congressional hearings, in which mostly male…
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Martese Johnson, the 21-year-old University of Virginia student who was beaten and arrested by agents from the…
I can make art and I can do things with my dick, but never the twain shall meet.
“Beautiful” being extremely fucking subjective here.
There’s a reason why a lot of people who qualify for it don’t bother. There’s a huge stigma attached.
I don’t think anyone in their right mind wants to live on the dole. I know people who’ve needed assistance and trust me, they want nothing more than to get the hell off it. Beyond the paperwork and beauracracy being a huge, painful hassle, they’re also dealing with external and internal pressure of “needing help.”…
Unless you are/have been poor, you can’t really imagine. Now, being poor and imagining being rich, well, that’s easy.
Add anyone who thinks going on and maintaining public assistance is easier than getting a job. Those people deserve a punch in the face too.
This is a huge problem in Washington DC, if anyone’s interested in learning more about the problem I recommend watching some of these videos that a grad student made. http://www.desertsinthedistrict.com/
I was looking for a low-mileage Ford Focus when I found my low-mileage Mercedes on Craigslist. It was several thousand dollars cheaper than the dealership wanted for the Fords, and if the experience of people I’ve known is any indication, it will last much longer (which matters, because I drive cars until they…
Republicans, then.
There’s also the problem of food deserts- that is, areas where getting inexpensive, nutritional food is basically impossible (generally this is urban areas with low incomes).
Yep. This is why “I can find one thing that’s healthy and cheaper than this other thing! Poor people are just lazy!” doesn’t work. Sure, if you have the time to spend comparison-shopping every single thing on your grocery list, and then prepare all those home-cooked meals in advance, then maybe you can pull off a…
Getting any form of public assistance is hard work too. You have to fill out reams of paperwork and provide tons of documentation over and over to get food stamps or help with your utilities or, sometimes even to visit a food pantry. When my husband was unemployed, I was temping and often pulling in just a few hours…
There’s cheap food that’s healthier than poor people tend to eat. The problem with it though is it 1) requires more time to prepare and 2) sometimes requires learning at least some basic cooking skills.
If there’s anyone out there that actually thinks being poor is simple, then they deserve a right punch in the face.
I’m a lifelong New Yorker and I don’t give fourteen fucks about people using utensils to eat their pizza. It’s their damn business.
She was low key racist in this video too. She thought she was being slick with that black church woman bit, but I saw her racist ass.