Worse is when they are not even asked to pay!

That's just SAD... and super cruel.

The sad truth...

SO TRUE!! We no longer have free lunches at our school, and it’s not cheap! (Although the lunches at our school are good)

wtf is this actually happening over in America...

I think this depends on the celeb.

Dial that back JUST a bit. What we LEARNED?? No, we experienced it, and we are whitewashing the whole affair so we don't need to learn anything. Just because you can demonstrate and prove something, has no connection to us necessarily learning it.

🤔...🤨

bUt MeH rIgHts! Gods I hate people sometimes.

This is just a simple fact.

A rent payment is not a credit transaction. Try to understand the difference. The real kicker is that you might think paying off a debt would improve a persons credit worthiness ie. I borrowed money and then paid it back before I said I would. Nope, closing a credit line by paying it off lowers your credit rating. Now that is bass ackwards.

Let's all thank the Supreme Court and Citizens United. I'll believe "corporations are people, too" [Mitt Romney] when a corporation gets sentenced to death in Texas.

Someone posted a photo of their itemised maternity bill from a US hospital on another forum a while back-it included a $50 charge for "skin to skin care." Skin to skin is literally putting the naked baby onto the mother or father's bare chest. It's meant to help with temperature regulation, and is alleged to help soothe the baby immediately after birth, but its not a medical procedure. Mum picks up the baby, puts it on her chest, and the hospital charges $50 for a midwife to watch? It's utterly ludicrous. The American healthcare system is beyond a joke.

In the UK Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) is paid for up to 39 weeks. You get: 90% of your average weekly earnings (before tax) for the first 6 weeks then £156.66 or 90% of your average weekly earnings (whichever is lower) for the next 33 weeks. Oh & it costs nothing to give birth.

They forgot that in some places you are also forced to carry said pregnancy no matter what. Even if it will bankrupt you, cost you your job, your health or even your life.

It is the Ultimate republican wet dream!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/daniellaemanuel/expensive-baby-delivery-bills

I was in the us army when my son was born. private hospital. my cost was $10. the $10 was for a private room, which cost $2 a day X 5 days.

I spent time in hospitals a fair amount when I was a child. My mother showed me an invoice the province sent. It wasn't a bill. It wasn't itemized down to the last bandage. Just an overview. Thank goodness for our health care here in Canada. It has its problems. There are bumps. But the bill? Priceless.

And of course, then being shamed for needing help (food stamps, etc)

Cffgf

Another way to keep people poor. Poor people are working so hard to keep their families fed, they don't have time to fight injustice.

“Forced birth” people are just unintelligent.

So let's do it.

But they give "thoughts and prayers" every time something happens! Isn't that enough!?!

I get my diabetes medication free. After reading all this stuff, I'm so glad I was born in the UK. It's certainly not perfect, but 1000x better than living in the 'Land of the free'.

They'll get right on that.

Because clapping and banging pots and pans is the new rental currency, obviously/s

I live in the Middle East and I could argue with you guys :)

Unfortunately, it's very American nowadays. At least our government thinks so... and the people who try to stop it are shut down or too scared to be able to make a difference.

My taxi driver today was asking about healthcare in the US and I told him about people not having money for insulin just dying. He is a dialysis patient and wondered if the cost was covered. i honestly don't know but I am not super hopeful. But imagine the poor kid and thinking you could have killed your parent via a simple mistake cause health insurance sucks

:'( The wrong people are in charge because we believe that an object has incredible value.e

Yep.

I genuinely believe homework should be banned or extremely limited

No, if we lost the cold war the cockroaches would be in charge. Maybe it's time to give them a shot...

I may be wrong here, but women choose to be nuns. If you don't want to wear a nun's habit, don't become a nun. It's the woman's decision, based not only on her faith but on her life choice (as in "work uniform"). Simple. There are countries where a woman merely going outside without hijab is punished and occasionally killed. I don't see the two as being comparable. Unless the bigotry is against women, rather than religion. Plenty of places where that's the case.

It's still a terrible story regardless of race: girl sees boy, girl falls in love with boy based on appearance, girl gives up EVERYTHING to be with boy... Catchy songs but I absolutely hate the premise.

"Trickle -down" is, has always been, and will always be, a republican fantasy.

Have you thought of training to become a parking space? If you really had ambition, you'd be in parking space college.

Wow, that's some kind of Big Brother action going on there. How the he|| did it come to corporate Pepsi's attention the kind of seed potatoes the planted!?!

Nobody lobbies for the middle-class, are anyother regular person.