“ You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious. ”
When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
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TIME’s new cover makes me so mad I could write essays about it, but instead I’m going to keep job hunting since in today’s world a university degree means nothing and therefore like much of my generation, I’m stuck choosing between minimum wage jobs and internships that I can’t afford to accept in an attempt to pay off my tens of thousands of dollars worth of student debt.
I’d be interested in reading this article to see exactly what makes us entitled and lazy. Are we lazy because more of us are completing high school and going to college than ever before? Are we entitled because our standard of living is declining? Do we live with our parents because we’re too slothful to leave or is because our education costs are getting steeper and steeper while we’re getting less and less aid?
Tell us, Time Magazine, about how we’re narcissistic little slugs when we’re faced with an economic crisis that resulted in a lowering of our standard of living, an increase in tuition costs and how when we get out of our very expensive schools, more and more of us are going to end up working minimum wage jobs.
“ For the last three decades many Americans have puzzled over a system that gives an R to a movie in which a women is carved up by a chainsaw and an NC-17 to one that shows a woman sexually pleasured. From such ratings one might conclude that sexual violence against women is OK for American teenagers to see, but that they must be 18 to see consensual sex. What message does this send to the kids the MPAA presumably means to protect? ”
Carrie Rickey
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So much respect for that.
“Dearest Beloved Girl,
[Text behind reads: Dear Steubenville Survivor]
This is a letter of apology for being an adult who has failed to make the world safe for you.
[YOU SHOULD BE SAFE]
You should be safe, and your vulnerability should not invite assault and attack of your body or your spirit.
[WE HAVE FAILED YOU]
So I’m sorry that we have failed to teach your male peers they have no right to touch you without your consent.
[YOU DEMANDED THE RIGHT TO BE HEARD]
You demanded the right to be heard. You may have lost your voice that night, but you found it again when you told the truth.
Even though you knew, didn’t you? You knew just how relentlessly they would try to silence you?
You knew that neighbors and friends, and even the members of the national media would mourn the loss of your attackers’ football careers more than the loss of your innocence.
[YOU SPOKE OUT ANYWAY]
You spoke for yourself and you spoke for the 44% of rape victims who are under 18, and you spoke for my 14 year old self who still hears that thread in my head, “don’t tell, they won’t believe you.”
[44%]
This is my apology and this is my gratitude saying, I believe you. I believe you are inherently valuable, not as a character in some grotesque news cycle where your assault is all we know, but as a girl.
[I BELIEVE YOU]
With hopes and dreams and ambitions and vulnerabilities and so much more growing up to do. I never need to know your name, but I need you to know you are not alone.
If you ever get down, if you ever wonder how you’re gonna go on, take out this letter because I believe you.
Sincerely Melissa.
(Source: free-winona)
“Why do we have an abortion rate 20% higher than France’s (and more than twice as high as Germany’s), especially considering most doctors here won’t perform them? The answer is any country that has universal health care, where contraception is free, where child care is free or inexpensive, where there is less poverty because people don’t become bankrupt over medical bills — those societies are simply going to have fewer unplanned and unwanted pregnancies.
And there the mask gets pulled off the Bart Stupaks and the “Christians.” If the statistics show that countries with government-provided universal health care and nearly-free abortions are, in fact, the countries with the fewest abortions, then why on earth wouldn’t the Right be the first in line to support universal health care?
Because it isn’t about “universal health care.” It’s about controlling women, period. It’s about sticking your nose in other people’s business. It’s about pushing your religious beliefs on everyone else because voices in your head tell you your Jesus is The One — even though your Jesus never said one single solitary word in any of the four gospels of the Bible about abortion or fertilized eggs being human. You’ve just gone and made it up about “life beginning at conception.” Jesus never said that. The little voice in your head said that, the same little voice that wants your grubby paws on women’s uteruses. You need help. Please get some help and leave the rest of us alone, Mr. Stupak and friends.
”
Michael Moore: My Congressman, Bart Stupak, Has Neither a Uterus Nor a Brain (via veruca-assault)
I wish I could reblog this 1,000 times.
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That. Is. Beautiful.
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life:
Today we offer a series of Michael Rougier’s powerful photographs — none of which ever ran in LIFE magazine — chronicling the conditions endured by migrant workers and their families across the United States in the 1950s.
(Michael Rougier—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Michael Falco uses his own large-format pinhole cameras to capture the history of the American Civil War while covering reenactments across the country.
The recently started project is being continually updated on Michael’s blog as Civil War anniversaries unfold through 2015.
Chronicling the American Civil War Through A Pinhole Camera
via Pro Photo Daily
dear america,
♪♫ you are so dumb
you are rly dumb. fer real. ♪♫love,
laci
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“ The commitments we make to each other – through Medicare, and Medicaid, and Social Security – these things do not sap our initiative; they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of ‘takers.’ They free us to take the risks that make this country great. ”
President Obama in his inaugural address today, a reference to common conservative criticisms of entitlement programs. (via election)
“ Our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers, and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity! ”
President Obama outlines a human rights agenda during his second inaugural address today. (via election)
