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...I'm fat and I've been hungry...

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They will blame "elites," of course, then dangle culture-war trivia over their crib

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Oh, fuck off, asshole. "Skin in the game" shouldn't apply to fucking lunch. And if you're gonna have one group of kids do chores about school, you should have _all_ the kids do chores. Fucking asshole.

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As Tony Kushner put it:"FOR GOD’S SAKE WOULD IT BE SO GODDAM TERRIBLE to FEED PEOPLE?!?"https://www.thenation.com/a...

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In California now, while in-state tuition is annoyingly no longer free, the state does offer 2 years of free community college (with the caveat that you have to be a first-time, full-time student, i.e. someone who just graduated from high school). There is also a big push to get kids to transfer from community college to a UC or CSU for their final two years, though I don't know if that comes with any additional financial aid beyond the CalGrants that about 50% of UC and CSU students receive.

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"The kids who have time to study and do extracurricular activities end up having an easier time getting into college than do kids who have to work in order to help put food on the table — either at home or during school lunch."

That's their point. Leave the easy path to opportunity open for only the children of the rich and powerful, and keep the "undesirables" out.

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Rethuglicans are just fucking GROSS.

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Republican - CheckHead shaped like a thumb - Check

Perfect

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Probably didn't do anything else, which makes it the perfect waste of a trip to Europe.

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Oh, we are far more than leeches, kind sir. We schedule all of our errands between 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM. That way, we can tie up an entire line of impatient worker drones trying to get this one thing done on their lunch hours by being completely confused and befuddled by baffling modern technology.

It's gets me out of the house.

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Made his kids pay to go to Europe for Bible college? I thought Bible college was a thing 'Muricans had exclusivity over. Was Bob Jones U not good enough for his Elitist Christian snowflake offspring?

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The southeast part of Indiana, nearer to Cincinnati, is quite hilly. "Ski Resort" is basically some bunny trails.

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Of course he understands skin in the game! Obviously "kids earn a trip to Europe" = "kids don't suffer hunger pangs during Algebra I because of the half-burned tater tots."

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I swear, if I was running the show, I'd fire the entire writing staff. This is worse than "Parker Lewis Can't Lose," that got cancelled because the entire cast and crew was coked out of their minds every waking moment.

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Does he get points for ingenuity?

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Our Elementary School janitor was hot. That should have been my first clue.

Our High School janitors doubled as security guards. They were burly and imposing teddy bears.

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