ackb:
So how come the “BOOTSTRAPS!” people are all Bush, Bush, and Romney instead of Clinton and Obama? Don’t you think that’s fucking weird, man? I think that’s fucking weird.
Not to be cliche but seriously, THIS.
We were very young. Both still in college. There were many reasons to delay marriage, and you know? We just didn’t care. We got married and moved into a basement apartment. We walked to class together, shared the housekeeping, and ate a lot of pasta and tuna fish. Our desk was a door propped up on sawhorses. Our dining room table was a fold down ironing board in the kitchen. Those were very special days.
Oh yes, Ann. Very special days when you SOLD STOCK TO PAY FOR COLLEGE.
ackb: Because they don’t actually want people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. They want to act as though this...