as small as a world and as large as alone, allies-person: alargecatirl: ...

12:45am June 14, 2013

alargecatirl:

derpingwithcats:

frank-e-fighting-words:

holyfuckmeinthemouth:

crackerhell:

think-progress:

Members of Congress are living off food stamps for a week to protest Republican cuts. It’s a challenge for them, but GOP cuts would hurt millions of everyday Americans.

or

get this

instead of this “omg these poor rich people gags”

they can make up the money from cuts for a week from their own salaries and give that directly to poor people so they can eat

NOVEL IDEAAAAAAAAAA

^^^^^^^

“protesting”

This is probably just me, but I feel like they’re mocking me. It makes me livid that they’re going to “pretend” to be poor to show why they’re shouldn’t be cuts, but they then get to go back to their lifestyle. I live this lifestyle. I have to make the small amount of food last. They don’t. They do this for a week and then they’re done. They get to go back to their paychecks. They get to go back to their salaries. They get to go back to their extravagant lifestyle of being able to buy fresh fucking fruit. I have to splurge, keyword splurge, on fresh fruit. I have to hope my blood doesn’t turn into ramen. (That’s a joke, or should have been. I’m not funny when I’m angry.) It’s just unfair that they’re going to live this lifestyle one week instead of listening to me. There is not reason for them not to just listen to us. They just want to seem like heroes for living this lifestyle for one week, while I’m vilified for living this lifestyle my entire life.

okay, let’s take seriously this idea of cutting congressional salaries for a week. the food stamps protest is limited to 30 house democrats, but let’s be generous and say that every single one of the 253 democrats currently in congress (201 representatives and 52 senators) agreed to part with a week’s worth of their $174k annual salary. that’s about $3300 individually, and about $850k in all. that’s nothing. it’s a drop in the ocean. it’s a grain of sand in the sahara. it’s about 0.004% of the $20b that house republicans are proposing in cuts to food stamps. it’s about 0.021% of the $4.1b in cuts that already passed in the senate. in the greater scheme of things this salary cut would be just as meaningless as you seem to think the protest is.

i can’t read rich white congressmen’s minds so i can’t know what their motives are, but frankly i don’t care. whether they’re doing this to “mock” me or whatever is completely irrelevant. these politicians oppose the cuts to food stamps. that’s all that should matter. perhaps if people focused their ire on the wastes of air who support these cuts instead of taking offense at every imagined insult from the people who actually represent their interests, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

#KABAM #that’s my husband

Your husband is awesome.