why did I sign up for this.

Reunion feels.

Example:

“What does your father do?”
“He’s a custodian.”
“Oh, they must’ve had you on a list for economic diversity!” 

Does this person, with his vast spaces for entertainment, honestly believe that the people who depend on things like Medicaid and Social Security, and small-business loans and Pell grants, are emboldened by the circumstances of their lives? Does he believe that these people who are living paycheck-to-paycheck and only asking that the system be a little bit more fair are actually as smug and entitled as every syllable he’s ever written proclaims Brooks to be? All over America, people are absolutely petrified that somebody in their family might get sick, thereby bankrupting them forever. All over America, people are worried that their mortgages are laden with small-print land mines. All over America, people are living in sheer abject terror that the job will disappear, or the rest of their 401K will go up in smoke, or grandma’s Alzheimer’s will offer them the choice of eating government cheese or letting the old girl die in her own filth in some unregulated nursing home. These are the people that David Brooks believes are destroying the country because their unreasoning hubris prevents government from making their lives even more difficult. I’m fking done with this nonsense. The man should be pelted with rotting fish. —  

Charles P. Pierce.

(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. —  James A. Baldwin.

(Source: gorgeousmuslimah, via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)

owsposters:

What Did You Buy With Your $2 Per Week Raise in 2010?

Download the poster pack

DATA SOURCE: http://nyti.ms/the-rich-get-even-richer

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We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering…. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob…. [These forces] are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred. —  Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

(Source: x0, via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)

dobbaaa:

kileyrae:

Obamacare(s).

I’m going to be so mad if any of these mother fuckers think taking college kids off of their parent’s insurance is going to be a good idea.

Do you (cough Republicans) have any idea how much my family and I spend on medication for me every month just so I can breathe?

30 days of Singulair costs a little over 320 dollars. One pill is about ten fucking dollars. A college kid who can barely put herself through school is never going to be able to afford that! 

And do you know how costly ER visits are? X-rays? MRIs? When I broke my foot the first time, X-rays were only about 10 bucks. Without insurance, it’s a couple hundred. My brother needed an MRI for his shoulder. With insurance, it’s 500 bucks.

Just fuck you if you think taking young adults off their parent’s insurance is a good idea.

Gah.

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Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts. —  Molly Ivins.

(Source: cognitivedissonance, via stfuconservatives)

White feminists:

dank-potion:

split-the-coast:

When you discuss the wage gap, here are a few things to keep in mind:

• Only white women make $0.77 to a man’s dollar.
• Black women make about $0.68 to a man’s dollar.
• Latina women make about $0.58 to a man’s dollar.

Intersectionality matters.

And men of color make less than white women.

$0.58 yaaay.

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