—People who think that no one uses welfare/food stamps to actually buy things they need can tell that to my hungry 11 year old self who wouldn’t have had decent lunches or meat (at all) without government assistance.
Oh, and who might have gone hungry if there had been drug testing involved. Thanks. I’m glad that you know more about my life than I do! If only I had realized sooner that my mom wasn’t really buying food with that money! I mean, I don’t know what she was doing with it, since our lives were fucking awful at that point and we had a grand total of zero luxuries (I shared a room with my mom! In the basement of my grandma’s condo! I did laundry for the whole house to earn enough dimes to buy myself sodas and candy!), but really, please, enlighten me.
Also, as a child of a drug addict, this law fucking terrifies me. The idea that some kid who is trying to cope with having an addict for a parent (not always easy) also might go hungry or without new clothes or whatnot because some privileged assholes think poor people have to be suffering saints to qualify for help literally makes me cry to think about.
(via stfuconservatives)
The stories we could share, grew up in Brooklyn my mom was one of those welfare queens that evil fuck Reagan was talking abt (minus the cadillac and crown). The joyous stories of standing in lunch lines at the homeless shelter and digging thru garbage for bottles to recycle. Less than 10 years old.
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(Source: stfuconservatives, via betteryourbrain)
- Diane Tran, 17, thrown in jail for one night because of repeated absences from school
- Honours student has been working two jobs to keep family afloat since parents’ divorce
- Has been taking advanced placement and college courses in addition to jobs and missed school due to exhaustion
- Spent the night in jail for truancy
Petition for the decision to be overturned here
meanwhile some white kid at my school missed like 40 days of school for no good reason and the school made sure he was able to graduate
(via dumbthingswhitepplsay)
But at least one group says the tours “turn poverty into entertainment.”
Stop.
thee fuck??!
from one kind of fuckery to another
it never ends.
POVERTY. TOURS.
TOURS.
OF.
POVERTY.
TOURS. THAT RICH PEOPLE TAKE. TO SEE REAL POOR PEOPLE. THAT PEOPLE WILL MAKE MONEY OFF OF.
UNLESS THESE POVERTY TOURS ARE HELPING THOSE POOR PEOPLE I HAVE A HUGE FUCKING PROBLEM. (If they are helping those poor people, I think they’re fucking geniuses. :O)
WOWOWOW
This white woman on TV just said about her adopted daughter:
“I adopted her from Colombia. It was like ordering from a catalog I got exactly what I wanted. I used to call her Zoey Jean my little Colombian coffee bean.”
And yet people ask me why I don’t think kids of color are always better off being adopted by white people. OMFG.
Seriously, WTF?
(via madamethursday)
After the Earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it’s burned to a crisp, or swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and galaxies coming into being - and they’ll know nothing of a place once called Earth.— Carl Sagan (via xassholeattakx)
(Source: floridabeachbum, via madamethursday)
