re: #104 twisty

Making min wage while you’re in college and pulling student loan $ w/parental help is exactly the same as being poor… //

Yeah, her story pretty much falls apart. She seems to have done well for herself academically but her portrait of “I pulled myself through the bootstraps” crumbled pretty damn quickly. She’s got the typical Fuck you, I got mine mentality that you see from people like her. I mean look at Paul Ryan, wants to cut social security benefits but it was his old man’s social security benefits that he acknowledges helped pay his college education. And there are countless others. I don’t think most people want a total entitlement system but this “You need to go at it alone” system that the right fantasizes about is completely unfeasible and would lead to an ingrained American oligarchy.