Let’s see, I have a Bachelors that I’m still paying for (or will be once I can’t go on forbearance anymore since I can’t afford the $400/month payments…times 3 since hubs has two similar payments for his culinary education) and can’t get a job with (I tried up until the time I could work longer gave me any job options) and I keep up on the news from various sources and not just Faux (hell, not Faux at all, if I can help it), and I’m not educated? I’m the one the GOP policies hurt at every turn, denying me health care, trying to double my loan interest rate, making me pay more taxes even though my income is less, and I don’t know what’s going on and how the system works?

Where’s that pitchfork. I want to burst that delusional bubble in a bad way.

I USED to be Republican. Until I realized how badly they wanted to screw the middle class, and I wasn’t even in the middle class then (or if I was, I was on the bottom of it and fell out of it pretty damn quickly when I got divorced). I understand the impact just fine, thank you very much.

I love the conditioned-reflex fallacy that people get about money i.e. if virtuous people work hard they get rich, therefore rich people are virtuous, hard workers.

This is the first I’ve seen about how since affluence and education are correlated, affluence always means you’re more educated.

First, I rather love this blog and appreciate its existence.

Second, if I ever kill someone (and the likelihood of such events coming to pass is looking better by the day) it is going to be that woman, or someone very like her.

I grew up under a hail of “gotoschoolsoyoucanmakesomethingifyourselfFortheloveof godGETACOLLEGEEDUCATION!!!” So I did. And I rather liked it, so if some is an imperative then surely more is better. I went some more. Now I have 2 masters degrees, no job, and almost 70K in school debt because I got a graduate fellowship that kept that number in the sub 100K range. It’s pretty obvious, even to an MFA like myself, that that math doesn’t quite jive.

But lo! Now the meme has changed! Now I’ve gone to school for the wrong things, for too long, I’ve isolated myself from the “real world,” and—icing on the cake: some jagoff in a Jag thinks I must be stupid.

I’d challenge that bitch to a rousing game of Cranium, but at the rate I’m going, I’ll be washing her dishes while she castigates me for being useless and dumb.

I am speechless.

It’s true that richer people as a rule are more highly educated than poor people.

But if you control for income, higher education actually tracks with greater support for Democrats.

One cheery thought: I have wondered if an equalizer to Romney’s money advantage would be if more people realized that when we think of people who donate to his SuperPAC, to Crossroads, to Americans for Prospertiy, etc—THIS IS WHO WE’RE LOOKING AT.

‘Cuz, you know. Woof.

Hi, Celeriac. Glad you like the joint.

Given that we’re discussing class warfare here, it’s inevitable that feelings are going to run high, but can we tone down the idea of even hypothetical killing of anyone, and try to find more imaginative and less loaded synonyms for “bitch”? Thx.

Good story, but the best quote comes from the NY Times, who covered the same bunfight:

A woman in a blue chiffon dress poked her head out of a black Range Rover here on Sunday afternoon and yelled to an aide to Mitt Romney. “Is there a V.I.P. entrance? We are V.I.P.”

“We are V.I.P.”, the personal credo of Mitt and Ann Romney.

But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies—everybody who’s got the right to vote—they don’t understand what’s going on.

Or maybe the problem is that they know exactly what’s going on.

Or maybe the problem is that they know exactly what’s going on.

“Waah! Everybody doesn’t get it except meeeeee!!!!”

This is what class warfare looks like:

For some reason, I’m reminded of when Lady Lynn Forrester de Rothschild called then-Sen. Obama an “elitist”

I work for people like this (sometimes even out in the Hamptons).  One of them who has at 5 or 6 residences in the $8-17 million range told me that her three biggest issues are:

1.  Better pay for teachers
2.  Better schools and education
3.  Healthier food and better labeling

And so she’d be supporting Romney.

At least she told me those were her issues.

everybody who’s got the right to vote

That, there, is the kicker- I imagine most of the domestic and grounds staff doesn’t have that right.

everybody who’s got the right to vote

And don’tcha know they’d love to fix that in a New York hurry

“It’s a club, and you’re not in it.”

~George Carlin