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    Pepper_AnnHamilton Nolan
    8/28/13 1:52pm

    Ugh America is just fucked isn't it? Thank God I live in Canada now

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      Sheeeeeeit-ClayDavisPepper_Ann
      8/28/13 1:55pm

      Who will y'all sell your excess oil to when the US and Chinese tied economies fail?

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      PootCarrPepper_Ann
      8/28/13 1:58pm

      Is it hard to move and find work in Canada if you're an American? I was thinking about moving there to escape student loans and get health care that doesn't cost $200+ per month.

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    PandoraBoxxHamilton Nolan
    8/28/13 1:54pm

    I will never forget the fear I felt as a child due to my biological mother's economic instability. I was afraid we were going to lose our house. I was afraid we wouldn't have enough food to eat. I was afraid to ask for new clothes even when mine were so tight I could barely squeeze into them.

    The only good thing, I suppose, is that fear motivated me to succeed. But it's a sad thing to be driven by fear.

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      JennifartPandoraBoxx
      8/28/13 1:59pm

      That's actually painful to read. Afraid to ask for new clothes, food insecurity, ugh. That is a huge boulder for a kid to have hanging over their head. It's not right.

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      InTheStillPandoraBoxx
      8/28/13 1:59pm

      It's a lifetime scar. And a lot more kids will have it now.

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    ReX13Hamilton Nolan
    8/28/13 1:48pm

    Counterpoint: Wouldn't it be nice if 100% of kids had exactly one parent that was unemployed?

    #halffull

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      psychomagnetReX13
      8/28/13 1:56pm

      winning comment of the day!

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      fnsfsnrReX13
      8/28/13 2:08pm

      If that was the choice of the parents, sure. But there is NOTING WRONG with being raised by two working parents - I know I'm one example, and have no complaints. I saw my parents plenty and got to see both of them working hard at fulfilling careers which was a great example to follow.

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    dinglebushHamilton Nolan
    8/28/13 1:50pm

    Those parents are lazy. In fact, I'd bet they got fired from their jobs on purpose, just to collect all the filthy government benefits that come out of my check and go straight to them.

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      Johnny Chundersdinglebush
      8/28/13 1:56pm

      And they get all that delicious government cheese!

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      JennifartJohnny Chunders
      8/28/13 2:01pm

      No, haven't you heard? They eat New York strips by the cowful. Welfare queens!

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    psychomagnetHamilton Nolan
    8/28/13 2:15pm

    This is just more boo hooing from HamNo. America has been living beyond its means and beyond the means of the planet for decades. This is the grand leveling with the rest of the planet, and thus necessary. We wouldn't be hurting as much of the ultra wealthy and corporations paid their fair shares, but that's another issue. The time for another revolution is in three, two...

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      IamnotXenaWarriorPrincesspsychomagnet
      8/28/13 2:20pm

      The NSA has just logged your statement into a database housed in central Utah.

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      psychomagnetIamnotXenaWarriorPrincess
      8/28/13 2:32pm

      Damn those record keeping NSA Mormons! They're like America's Swiss time-keepers, only with more wives.

      * begins life underground with the rebellion alterna-patriots.

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    BrtStlndHamilton Nolan
    8/28/13 2:00pm

    It's worth noting that overall unemployment went up 70-80% in that period.

    GIF
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      DanCopelandHamilton Nolan
      8/28/13 2:31pm

      Of all the evils in Reagan's legacy, the myth of the "welfare queen" is the worst, in terms of lasting harm. It put into simple, easily repeated terms the lie that there is a rampant trend of Americans seeking an "easy life" of living on the public dole, when the truth is that being on public assistance is one of the most mortifying, soul-crushing experiences for anyone. It wasn't the first example of the powerful seeking to demonize not poverty but those in it, but it's been one of the most effective tools in propaganda to drive the conservative element in this country towards an embrace of money as morality, of financial success as a measure of one's character.

      There's something seriously wrong when (and don't confuse this as an endorsement of the man himself) being a community organizer is something that gets you mocked, while specializing in buying up companies only to run them into the ground for personal profit is embraced as if it were a sign of strong moral character. Is it rewriting history to say that we were once a country that understood poverty to be a disease that eventually drives nations to ruin? Has it always been just the progressive element pushing for equality of opportunity, a country with a strong infrastructure that supports individual freedoms and the opportunity to establish your own legacy?

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        JennifartDanCopeland
        8/28/13 2:41pm

        I like the cut of your jib.

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        RenissaraDanCopeland
        8/28/13 3:15pm

        I agree with your points and could rant at length about Reagan, but demonizing the poor is hardly a new phenomenon. For example, look at the social Darwinism of the Gilded Age.

        Happily, these things seem to be cyclical, and we will gradually go back to an attitude that we as a society share responsibility for the most vulnerable amongst us, only to have some 21st century Ronald Reagan come along and convince us that the poor and downtrodden are there 100% due to their own fault. Scarily, the people who understand full well right now why Reagan was so problematic will be so old and reactionary at that point that the majority of us will vote for him (or her!) and people who haven't even been born yet will write blog comments full of frustration over it.

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      Wendel Clark BarHamilton Nolan
      8/28/13 1:48pm

      People are going hungry.

      Kids on airplanes, in shopping malls, and just in general, are loud, messy and annoying.

      Do the math.

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        JennifartWendel Clark Bar
        8/28/13 1:55pm

        No baby eating, Fat Bastard.

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      dvdoffHamilton Nolan
      8/28/13 2:15pm

      You want job security? Do like I did, become a chauffeur. For some reason we aren't running out of rich people.

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        dinglebushHamilton Nolan
        8/28/13 4:56pm

        This bitch needs to eat something.

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