The problem stems from 2009. I’m not sure how this would be on Trump. Literally the only thing that isn’t shit in his budget is increasing VA funding substantially. Trump sucks, but the VA has been broken for years. Based on this article, this is a genuinely bad take.

Because he claimed my brother as a dependent so I guess they decided she was financially liable. It didn’t matter that her ex owed her untold amounts of court ordered child support. They found a way to reclaim some money and they exploited it.

Wait, why did they make your Mom pay if her ex was the one that received the benefits?

Not quite the same, but my mom had full custody of both of my brothers. Her ex-husband was required to pay child support and alimony. He never did. When one of my brothers was 15 he decided to go live with his dad for a year. There was no formal court arrangement or anything. During that year his dad didn’t work and…

Totally. In a related note, this was my favourite tweet of last week:

To the Social Security Administration though, being able to attend (and pass) college courses is an indication that you are able to hold some kind of job.

People were doing this on a hiking trail at a national forest I visited this past weekend. SO OBNOXIOUS.I’m trying to enjoy the peace and serenity of the outdoors and a gaggle of douchebros with tshirts wrapped around their heads turns the corner, garbage EDM on blast. This needs to end. 

“I don’t know any businesses that would get away with something like this.”

This is why my husband is so reticent to get the benefits that rightly belong to him. He is a combat veteran with depression, PTSD, and chronic injuries sustained while deployed. He has bouts of suicidal thoughts and issues with alcohol dependency because of his untreated PTSD, which we’ve been able to mitigate…

If you don’t shut the fuck up right now, I will play nothing but Train and Phish at you.

“I don’t know any businesses that would get away with something like this.”

I am calling the cops on you right now.

I agree with all your views on this except one thing.... “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” is one of the best songs ever, an effin classic.

When I was in college, the girl in the dorm next to mine used to play/sing a song that went “could not ask for more!” over and over and over again. The song was already pretty repetitive.

When I was still in the Navy I took a short trip overseas. Four of us went. Same flight, train, cab, number of days, return cab, train, and plane.

My spouse is a disabled vet and we had this happen to us, although nowhere near the amount — it was a conflict between his SS payments, VA disability, and GI Bill payments that meant he was overpaid one month by ~$150ish. What makes me more angry is the VA itself and how it has THE WORST staff. One counselor (who my…

If you fuck up that royally, take your lumps and learn from the lesson. Don’t throw people’s lives in to turmoil and potentially ruin their credit because of your TRIPLE GOOF on paperwork.

lol same. plus some shit in my hair.

Ok. How about this. You do more to your face than I do. And self tanner? Yeah, that changes the color of your skin. Serums, toners, strict skincare system. Yeah. She’s wearing a *tinted* moisturizer. Aka - FOUNDATION.

Can somebody who knows about makeup help out poor makeup-not-understanding me? Is there a clear line between “show makeup” that men and women both wear when making public appearances in the entertainment industry and “makeup makeup” of the sort that all women in our society, but not men, are conventionally expected to…