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sounds_sound  ·  3958 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Highly Educated, Highly Indebted: The Lives of Today's 27-Year-Olds, In Charts

This is scary. I was just back in Ohio for X-mas and got to hear all of the cousin-in-law drama as of late. One of them is a highschool drop-out, has three kids and a brand new bum of a boyfriend with his own children as well. So I hear that she's pregnant with their first one together and he's stoked because his unemployment kicks in when the baby arrives. With these cases, children are often a means to welfare. And on that note.





b_b  ·  3957 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh man. That song somehow came up in conversation one day with my sister-in-law, who is from Japan. She didn't believe us that it was about getting you welfare check to go buy weed and booze. Apparently, in Japan social assistance is considered quite shameful, and even though people take it regularly, nobody would ever openly talk about it, let alone brag about bilking the system for drug money. She seemed almost embarrassed to listen to it, which I found hilarious.