Gen X & Baby Boomer media is about making millennials feel shitty about not being exponentially more successful and more educated than they had to be at the same age to maintain the same standard of living. Y'all had my salary with a HS diploma working at Auto Zone. Go away.
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CNBC: The budget breakdown of a 25-year-old who makes $100,000 a year and is excellent with money
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WaPo: Workers are ghosting their employers like bad dates
Pay workers more and treat them like people. If your employees feel expendable, they have no problem ghosting on that spot that you’ll easily fill with someone else you don’t care about.
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Vox: Paul Ryan’s Long Con
Anybody still giving the benefit of the doubt to Republicans needs to go outside and break off a switch. Republicans keep playing this “fiscal responsibility” card, and too many of us keep falling for it to debate its merits as if their positions ever hold fast once they get elected. “Fiscal responsibility” is a catchphrase to bring two groups to the polls: rich people and poor whites.
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Daily Beast: Trump on Coming Debt Crisis – ‘I Won’t Be Here’ When It Blows Up
We point out a lot of ways this current administration is breaking from accepted norms, but the one difference that gets the least discussion is the frequency with which Trump and this current GOP says out loud what we all knew to be true anyway.
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ThinkProgress: Michigan GOP cuts paid sick leave, repeals minimum wage increase in lame-duck session
How do we impress upon our representatives that Republicans have no intention of playing fair and we have get in the gutter with them in order to clean it up? We can’t afford to go high when they keep taking a baseball bat to the knees of democracy.
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Chuck Schumer’s unpaid intern.
We’re expected to work FOR FREE after 6, 7, and 8 years of college, but we’re the ones who are spoiled because we want a $4 coffee every once in awhile to forget about the strain of living in country the generation before us ruined with greed.
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Donald Trump wouldn’t qualify to be an immigrant.
Let’s see. Trump has about five bankruptcies under his belt, can barely form a coherent sentence, and has no marketable skills that I can see other than being white and promising White America that he will whitely allow them to white even more effectively in the white future. Add to that the fact that he could never pass a citizenship test because he has no idea of how the government works or the history of this country, and I’m pretty sure Donald Trump’s Administration would stop Donald Trump at the door if he was trying to come from another country.
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Vox: Brexit isn’t about economics. It’s about xenophobia.
The campaign behind Brexit is a mirror image of our own Cheeto Jesus out here trying to Make America Great White Again.
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Nevermind economic aid, most of us don’t even realize Puerto Ricans are American.
Now we have an American almost-state where 45% of the population is in poverty, 150 schools have been shut down in the past few years, and sales tax has been raised 4.5% all the way to 11.5% because the mainland treated Puerto Rico like an island paradise where business regulations don’t matter.
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Minimum wage jobs are **HARD**
We’ve assigned worth to jobs and we’ve also assigned jobs to people, so we’ve also assigned worth to people. We’ve told certain people that they belong behind the cash register at Wal-Mart or they belong over the fryer at McDonald’s and we’ve decided that those people don’t deserve a decent standard of living. The minimum wage fight isn’t really about whether or not you deserve more money for making a hamburger. It’s really about whether society’s failures and undesirables deserve as much money as everyone else.
