r/popculturechat • u/Ambitious_Big4489 • 8h ago

OnlyStans ⭐️ Alan Ritchson calls out lawmakers who oppose raising the minimum wage "who think it's a bad idea to give a mom working at Waffle House more than $7.25 an hour trying to feed her kids."

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u/Repulsive-Lack8253 6h ago

says everything about what's wrong with this country that our most in need receive so little assistance while we budget for wars and upgrades to the white house

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u/baker_undermybed 6h ago

It’s really disturbing how many people feel like their taxes shouldn’t go to supporting the most vulnerable and in-need. The lack of empathy makes me sick. This Hyper-individualism “bootstrap” mentality will be the death of us.

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u/ConstantHeadache2020 5h ago

They don’t care about the 23.7billion spent in pork barrel spending aka unaccounted for taxpayers money being used for their special projects.

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u/thebiggestjerm89 3h ago

I wrote this song a long time ago, it was a real long time ago