Finding babysitters can be a problem. One way to solve this is to find a bunch of other people with kids and trade services: I babysit for you when you go out, you babysit for me when I want to go out. Create an economy of babysitting. Get enough people involved and there will always be a baby sitter. Sounds like a great idea, right?
It could be. If it’s set up the right way.
In the 1970s, a group in Washington, D.C., set up a system like the above to make sure everyone always had access to a babysitter. Here’s what went wrong, what they learned, and why it serves as a lesson about our overall economy (with kudos to Paul Krugman, who first popularized this story in his brilliant book Peddling Prosperity).
I like Bernie but If Hillary wins the primary I’ll vote Hillary. I love y'all but if you let Christie or Trump become president because you wanted to throw a tantrum over Hillary winning primaries I will personally punch every other registered voter in the face. I had to suffer through eight years of a republican president I didn’t elect and I won’t do it again.
I’ll have at least four years to work my way through a punching list don’t think I won’t try it.
But Obama isn’t republican..unless you’re talking about a different president?
yes dear child, I was alive during the years 2000-2008, when President George W. Bush was president-elect. I don’t say this to be rude because you’re 16, and you don’t know, because you couldn’t have known, but now it is my faithful duty to tell you so you are informed as to why we (I) hate Republicans. You may not know him very well, but here’s a picture:
It’s an understatement to say that the Mission, was in fact, not accomplished.
He’s the guy that Obama replaced in large part because everyone hated George W. Bush. Why?:
Despite extensive warnings of incoming threats, Bush took no action to prevent 9/11 from happening, leading several respectable political science scholars to indicate that Bush was at least partially responsible for the attacks actually occurring (if not wholly responsible for not preventing them)
actually let’s remember that when he was immediately alerted to the attack, he continued to read a children’s story to elementary schoolers and then Air Force one and himself were gone for several hours after the attack.
he turned an inherited budget surplus into a 1.2 trillion dollar deficit.
a small deficit is one thing! 1.2 trillion dollars is NOT SMALL. Bill Clinton did have some part in the lead-up to a failing economy but Bush….Bush destroyed it.
The entire 2008 collapse began while he was still in office and basically did nothing about it. This wasn’t just an American collapse. This was a world-wide financial collapse that happened because American banks were failing (in large part due to massive amounts of tax-cuts and de-regulation put forth by Bush!). It triggered a world-wide collapse. He was partially responsible for our country’s second great depression.
He is 100% responsible for the mishandling of Hurricane Katrina and the guy Kanye West was referring to when he said “George Bush hates black people.”
the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, the “war on Terror”
LAUNCHING WARS WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL
the entire existence of Guantanamo Bay
the Patriot Act
his own party wanted nothing to do with him in 2008
heckuva job, brownie
waterboarding
….he literally stole the election in 2000
pulled us out of the kyoto protocal to deal with global warming problems
US troops given faulty, or unsafe gear
Abu Gharib prison and all other crimes of war already mentioned here or not mentioned
War profiteering! The list of top Bush administration officials whose former corporate employers made billions in Pentagon contracts starts with Vice-President Dick Cheney and Halliburton, which made $39.5 billion, and included his daughter, Liz Cheney, who ran a $300 million Middle East partnership program.
cutting veteran’s health care benefits
pardoning Scooter Libby
cut and froze pell grants for poor students
no child left behind act is the reason why you probably have to take those god forsaken dumb standardized tests for no real GOOD reason
Reporters analyzing Bush’s record found that he took off 1,020 days in two four-year terms—more than one out of every three days. No other modern president comes close. Bush also set the record for the longest vacation among modern presidents—five weeks, the Washington Post noted.
i could keep listing shit for days honestly but i won’t
suffice to say: George W. Bush is the worst president I lived through, he is the worst president in the last 50 years, and his blatant incompetence and failures are why the Republican party is rapidly devouring itself like a crazed ouroboros and might try to elect Trump. He is the reason why Stephen Colbert parodied the right as satire – why The Daily Show gained huge amounts of relevance, why the rest of the world hated us for a good eight years solid, why huge amounts of various civil and constitutional rights were literally eroded and denied to us, why we’re so in the debt hole even now, and why i registered Democrat when I turned 18, because honestly fuck the entire Republican party. Burn it to the ground and salt the earth.
Every. Damn. Word.
bruh
i was 18 when W was elected. i remember his daddy in office. i live in a city where a major highway is named after Sr. don’t make me go through this again.
The thing with Bush is… to this very day… I genuinely have no idea if he was a hopeless incompetent manipulated by malefactors around him- of if he was a genuinely awful person who hid it with obfuscating stupidity.
This shirt costs $48.00 This shirt costs fourty eight dollars
This racist-as-hell embodiment of white privilege and aboslute tone-deaf social ignorance costs fourty eight fucking dollars.
No, it is not silly or cute to change Black lives Matter into Cat Lives Matter. When you value paying three times more than the regular cost for a piece of cotton that professes your love for cats over, you know, people who are dying, going hungry, being denied jobs or housing opportunities, it’s not ok.
But sure, thanks for pointing yourself out. Please, do wear this shirt in public so I know who to avoid on the street.
white people keep doing this with every slogan out there. suddenly “DRIVING MATTERS”, “skincare matters”, “vacation matters”. they’re using the black lives matters movement as a slogan for their bullshit .
seriously, worldwide, every time i turn on the t.v something else fucking trivial “MATTERS”. and im sick of it.
WHAT THE FUCK is wrong with people!?
How can anyone think it’s ok to co-opt a phrase that means so much into some bullshit like this.
Fuck the people who made this shirt, fuck the people using tragedy as a marketing campaign. FUCK
When you can’t see the humanity and struggle of others, you can comfortably co-opt anything.
The Matrix Trilogy is driven by the mystery of whether Neo, the film’s protagonist, is actually the savior of mankind. But here’s a crazy theory: What if Neo’s arch nemesis, Agent Smith, was actually “The One” this entire time.
“Actress Melissa McCarthy is doing press for her new movie and clothing line, and is being asked constantly about her recent weight loss. She acknowledges she has lost weight - it’s no secret. But her media presence during all of this looks and sounds so different from many other celebrities who go through similar changes. It is unbelievably refreshing! Melissa isn’t on the cover of any magazines to “flaunt” her new size. She isn’t advertising for any magical, expensive, potentially harmful-to-your-health diet pills or plans. She has no multi-million-dollar endorsements riding on her weight. She isn’t defining herself, or allowing herself to be defined by, her body. She politely sticks with the same general message to every reporter, saying: “No trick, nothing to tell, just super boring life. You bring it real down, you don’t do anything fun and you go to bed at 7:30 - that’s the trick.”
We can’t help but be grateful for her example as the spotlight shines directly on her changing appearance. This example is valuable for all people who see stars lose weight and claim: 1) It was sooo easy (“just getting more sleep,” “I still eat everything I want”); or 2) promote unhealthy methods (just lemon juice for two weeks, or only cabbage, or this magical pill, or this other product I make a cut of the sales for); or 3) who equate their nutritional and exercise choices with good vs. evil, which moralizes food and weight and exerts extra pressure and shame on those choices (“I stopped being so bad and cut sugar” or “I’m running a mile to make up for every cheat food I eat” or “Inside every overweight woman is a woman she knows she can be”).
Melissa’s mere presence as a major leading lady is an example in itself because she doesn’t hide. Not fitting mainstream physical ideals often creates body shame, which can push women to hide themselves in order to avoid judgment from others. Melissa has pursued a very public career and excelled while representing a body type (before or after her weight loss) that is discriminated against and is very rarely represented positively in any form of media. Whether you like or dislike her roles (many of which she has written and produced for herself with her writing/producing partner and husband, Ben Falcone), she provides a rare glimpse of a strong, happy woman who happens to have a body shape and size that many women see in themselves and their loved ones, but almost never in media or cultural messages about what a successful woman can look like. We’re grateful that the media spectacle around Melissa’s weight loss looks and sounds so different than what we’re used to.”
I really keep hoping that someone sees what's going on here, and turn Alito's arguments around to show that forcing employers to cover health insurance at all is an undue burden, and that, since it's been proved that the government can provide more comprehensive health care more efficiently, more effectively and at a lower cost, we should scrap the ACA entirely and just go to single payer.
The old white men on the Supreme Court clearly have never been responsible for getting their own insurance ever in their lives. It's pretty clear that they've never had a conversation with the women in their lives about how stuff like getting birth control works. Because they literally think that it's more of a burden for some HR person to write a note to their insurance company than it is for a woman to have to find a second policy on her own and find a doctor that takes that insurance.
The conservatives on the court seemed to agree with the challengers and wondered, Why can’t all these female employees just go out and get a second insurance plan for their birth control?
“What type a burden does that impose? Is it because these exchanges are so unworkable, even with the help of a navigator, that a woman who wants to get free contraceptive coverage simply has to sign up for that on one of the exchanges?” Justice Samuel Alito asked, snarkily, about the Obamacare health insurance exchanges used by those without employer-based health care plans.
[Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, who was defending the accommodation] pointed out that those sort of contraceptive-only policies don’t even exist on the exchanges, and in a hypothetical world where they did, that extra effort undercuts the reason Congress passed a mandate for preventive care in the first place.
“Her regular doctor has to say to her, 'Sorry, I can't help you.' It's not just that you don't get the prescription paid for. It's not just that he can't write the prescription, he can't counsel or educate the patient,” Verrilli said.
Alito didn’t believe that is what would happen, arguing that her regular doctor would just be paid for by whatever second plan the woman purchased. Verrilli countered it wouldn’t all happen so seamlessly.
“She'd have to go out and buy the separate plan, find a doctor who is willing to take the separate plan,” Verrilli said, but Alito's disbelief continued: Why can't Congress could simply subsidize second plans for affected female employees to purchase?
When allistics fail to realize that treating autistics the same way they treat other allistics isn’t automatically good. In fact, it can be very ableist.
The fact that what the sex is [of someone you love] is an issue is just unbelievable to me. I mean, love is such a hard f****ing thing - to find somebody who’s willing to go through anything with you and stand by you that, on its own, is so hard to find. The fact that people want to complicate it even more just absolutely baffles me. If it happens, cherish it! What does it matter if you’re sharing it with a man or with a woman? (x)
“The staff of Fortune and a panel of experts recently assembled our 2016 list of the World’s Greatest Leaders. Here’s a short profile of three of them.
Modern social movements often fizzle after their moment in the national news (Occupy Wall Street and to a lesser extent the Tea Party come to mind). But Black Lives Matter has steadily gained momentum since its founding in 2013, when activist Alicia Garza coined the phrase and fellow activist Patrisse Cullors made it a hashtag. Alongside Opal Tometi, they created the Black Lives Matter network, which has grown to 28 local chapters, each fighting a range of racial injustices like police brutality and racial profiling. Last year the movement inspired college students to take up the mantel, with some successes (the system president and chancellor of the University of Missouri resigned over outcry they failed to address campus racism). They also pushed the presidential candidates to address the country’s systemic racism – an issue would-be nominees would probably have preferred to sidestep.”
I once pointed this out to my mother and she just stared at me, in stunned silence for ages.
There will always be a girl who is less sober, less secure, with less friends walking in a darker part of town. I want her safe just as much as I want me safe.
Friend that grew up poor: Ehh...pizza is on me this time. Don't worry about it ;)
Friend that grew up rich: We need to calculate the value of everyone's meals with an Excel spreadsheet. I can't let you borrow $2 for McDonald's because you forgot your wallet.
[On his first time feeling represented in pop culture] It’s so scarce, as a kid, that like the examples are insane. Like I’m thinking of the chihuahua in Oliver & Company, voiced by Cheech Marin. I was like, “Oh, that guy sounds like my uncle. That chihuahua, that’s us!” That’s how bad the ‘80s were when it comes to Latinos. I’m trying to think what else, but literally the first thing that came to mind was a fucking cartoon chihuahua.
boo: it is after noon and i woke up before six and so far nearly my every waking moment has been devoted to housework and wrangling a salty cat and wrangling a salty mr. jude
yay: i gave myself permission not to worry about part of the laundry by singing “you don’t have the fucks, you don’t have the fucks / ya gonna need executive function and you don’t have the fucks” to myself
