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Daily Caller News Foundation Democratic Delegates Outraged Chick-Fil-A Served At DNC

Chick-Fil-A sandwiches abound at the Democratic National Convention, and some of the delegates aren’t happy about it.

Conference attendees can buy Chick-Fil-A sandwiches both inside and outside the convention arena. Joe Sacco, a Democratic delegate from Nevada who supports Senator Bernie Sanders and attended the LGBT caucus, told The Daily Caller News Foundation he’s unhappy Chick-Fil-A is being served.

“That was just really disappointing,” Sacco told TheDCNF. “I would hope that the DNC would be more sensitive in the future to the LGBT community.”

Many LGBT supporters boycotted the fast food chain after CEO Dan Cathy publicly spoke in favor of traditional marriage in 2012. Sacco said he’s not the only upset and that many other delegates shared his sentiment and were vocal about it.

“People were not happy about it, but it wasn’t just gay people who were not happy about it,” Sacco told The DCNF. “It was gay people and straight people and our allies, and the workers, in fact, also understood when we took a few moments to explain why we don’t support Chick-Fil-A.”

Sonya Lewis, an openly lesbian delegate seen holding a pro-LGBT sign, told TheDCNF she was unhappy with Chick-Fil-A being served.

“The owner is homophobic,” Lewis told TheDCNF. “I don’t buy Chick Fil A on purpose.”

Both Lewis and Sacco acknowledged there may be contractual obligations that require the Wells Fargo Center to allow Chick-Fil-A’s food, but both said they disapprove of the fast food company.

“They’re the type of company that closes on Sunday, puts money into lobbying against the LGBT community, and for that reason I will never support Chick-Fil-A until they change their ways,” Sacco said.

YOU ARE PAYING FOR SPRING BREAK

Obama and his government minions have doled out over $1.3 trillion to our yuuts so they could get educated. I bet you didn’t know that the funds aren’t all directed to the school for tuition and fees. The funds for books, rent, and living expenses are given directly to the student. How many responsible 18 to 21 year olds do you know. We already know that over 50% of the morons matriculating into college have 0% chance of graduating because they are dumber than a sack of hammers.

But they do know how to spend “found” money on iGadgets, HDTVs, booze, concerts, fast food, and they absolutely need to kick back on Spring Break after getting 3 D’s, a C in remedial maff, and an F in financial planning. It seems millions of these morons are spending their student loan money on a good time. They deserve it.

The best part is that Obama and his cronies wanted this to happen. The student loan scam was nothing but an artificial attempt to reduce unemployment and boost GDP. It’s been a huge success. Now that 40% of all student loans are in default, your government will come up with some asinine reason for writing off at least $500 billion. That means, you funded the spring breaks of these worthless pieces of shit. Happy Saturday suckers.

Via Bloomberg

Can You Use Student Loans to Go on Spring Break?

The essential college experience requires all-nighters at the library and, to some, a keg stand or two and a less-than-lucid spring break vacation. And much like a degree, tequila shots and beachside hotels don’t come cheap.

About one in five American students graduating this year who carry debt said they used student loans to pay for such expenses as vacations, dining out, and entertainment, according to a poll¹ conducted in early May by Google Consumer Surveys on behalf of Student Loan Hero. Undergraduates finishing college in 2014 owed an average of $28,950 in student debt, the result of loans taken out to cover both tuition and living expenses.

But when is it living, and when is it living it up?

Beyond tuition and housing, cost-of-attendance expenses that can be paid for with student loans include books, school supplies, transportation, and “miscellaneous personal expenses,” according to the U.S. Department of Education. Asked whether that covers vacations, the department said it would look into the matter.

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Poll: Two-thirds of US would struggle to cover $1,000 crisis

Whenever one of these stories comes out about how little savings the average family has, they always seem to concentrate on wealth inequality, stagnant wages, and rising costs. They rarely concentrate on personal responsibility, failure to grasp the concept of delayed gratification, lack of basic budgeting skills, and playing the blame game for your failures. I love how these articles describe a $1,000 “emergency” expense that is unexpected.

Only delusional, math challenged, live for today morons would consider having to get 4 new tires for your car as an unexpected emergency. It’s not an unexpected emergency when your 15 to 20 year old water heater gives out. Appliances crap out at 10 years or less. Roofs start leaking around 20 years. You and your family members get sick every year. None of this is an unexpected emergency.

It’s not an emergency when after 18 years your child enters college. You had 18 years to save. You cannot work for 40 years and be surprised by retirement. It’s a national disgrace there are so many households with so little. The excuses and rationalizations by the ignorant masses are a plenty. I understand the ravages of inflation and wages not keeping up, but that is no excuse for living above your means because your neighbor does so.

If you make $50,000, spend less than $50,000 and save the difference. If you make $50,000, you shouldn’t be living in a $250,000 home, driving a leased $40,000 vehicle, spending $400 per month on cable and smart phones, eating out three times per week, and taking exotic vacations every year.

The only way to accumulate savings is to live beneath your means. It’s that simple. Too bad most Americans have been brainwashed by the banker/media/corporate propaganda and have been running on a hamster wheel their entire lives. If you are 50 years old with $100,000 of household income and can’t handle an “expected” $1,000 expense, it’s no one’s fault but your own.

Via AP

NEW YORK (AP) — Two-thirds of Americans would have difficulty coming up with the money to cover a $1,000 emergency, according to an exclusive poll released Thursday, a signal that despite years of recovery from the Great Recession, Americans’ financial conditions remain precarious as ever.

These financial difficulties span all income levels, according to the poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Seventy-five percent of people in households making less than $50,000 a year would have difficulty coming up with $1,000 to cover an unexpected bill. But when income rose to between $50,000 and $100,000, the difficulty decreased only modestly to 67 percent.

Even for the country’s wealthiest 20 percent — households making more than $100,000 a year — 38 percent say they would have at least some difficulty coming up with $1,000.

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47% of high school grads aren’t prepared for college

Guest Post by Kati Haycock

Students meander toward graduation, taking courses that expose them to a little of everything and not much of anything

Once upon a time, when postwar industrial America was in full steam, a young person could leave school with basic skills and get a job that would support a family. That America is no more.

To succeed in today’s fast-changing, knowledge-based economy, young people need more skills than ever before. And the jobs that used to require work boots, a good set of tools, and a steady hand now require advanced math, science, and reading — and, typically, also a certificate or degree beyond a high school diploma.

Business leaders have long known this. But ample evidence suggests that many high schools have yet to fully grasp the reality of these new demands.

Despite widespread rhetoric around college and career-readiness for all students, just 8% of graduates from public high schools complete a full college- and career-preparatory course of study. Rates of college- and career-ready course-taking are consistently low across all student groups, according to The Education Trust’s new report, “Meandering Toward Graduation: Transcript Outcomes of High School Graduates.”

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WHY SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE COLLEGE GRADUATES ARE DUMBER THAN A SACK OF HAMMERS

If you ever needed more proof that a college education has become a virtual joke, check out the chart below. Higher Education should be renamed Lower Education, since the standards of excellence have been lowered so far, any moron can get a degree. With a large distribution of students, grades should resemble a bell curve. I learned that in my college Stat class. That would mean approximately 15% to 20% A’s.

Shockingly, back in the 1960s & 1970s about 15% to 20% of students got As. Did college students suddenly get super smart over the last 15 years? Based on the chart, we’ve got some real Einsteins out there. The number of A grades has skyrocketed from 30% to 45% in the last fifteen years.

This is a fucking joke. This is the same time period in which every moron who can spell CAT has been able to matriculate into college with the trillions in student loan debt being peddled by Obama and his minions. We know for a fact, based on SAT scores, that at least 50% of kids in college aren’t intellectually capable of succeeding.

So the solution is to dumb down the curriculum and inflate grades because it is only about the money. Kids who flunk out don’t pay tuition. Our entire educational edifice of idiocy is a disaster. Kids graduating with 3.5 GPAs today aren’t half as smart as the kids graduating with 3.5 GPAs in 1980. The lack of intelligence and common sense is evident everywhere you look. The special snowflakes can be coddled and given A’s for doing C work, but that doesn’t make them prepared for the real world.

This country is so screwed and there is no way to unscrew it.

It’s never been easier to get an A in a college class (or more expensive)

By Jillian Berman via Marketwatch

College students are more likely to get an A than in the past.

Add this to the list of consequences of rising college tuition: Students getting better grades than they deserve.

A’s were the most common grade on college campuses in 2013, accounting for 45% of grades awarded to students, according to an analysis of grade data at more than 80 schools by Stuart Rojstaczer, an independent researcher, and Chris Healy, a computer science professor at Furman University. By contrast, college students were most likely to get C’s leading up to the Vietnam War, accounting for about 35% of grades awarded. The two researchers have been collecting and reporting on grade data for years. Monday’s release marks the latest version of their analysis.

The researchers’ data shows how A’s have become the most common grade awarded at colleges.

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Students at Lena Dunham’s college offended by lack of fried chicken

Via The NY Post

Students at an ultra-liberal Ohio college are in an uproar over the fried chicken, sushi and Vietnamese sandwiches served in the school cafeterias, complaining the dishes are “insensitive” and “culturally inappropriate.”

Gastronomically correct students at Oberlin College — alma mater of Lena Dunham — are filling the school newspaper with complaints and demanding meetings with campus dining officials and even the college president.

General Tso’s chicken was made with steamed chicken instead of fried — which is not authentically Chinese, and simply “weird,” one student bellyached in the Oberlin Review.

Others were up in arms over banh mi Vietnamese sandwiches served with coleslaw instead of pickled vegetables, and on ciabatta bread, rather than the traditional French baguette.

“It was ridiculous,” gripes Diep Nguyen, a freshman who is a Vietnam native.

Worse, the sushi rice was undercooked in a way that was, according to one student, “disrespectful” of her culture. Tomoyo Joshi, a junior from Japan, was highly offended by this flagrant violation of her rice. “I f people not from that heritage take food, modify it and serve it as ‘authentic,’ it is appropriative,” she said.

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Hillary Supporters Endorse SHARIA LAW in AMERICA!

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I’M 100% CONFIDENT MOST AMERICANS ARE MORONS

These polls crack me up. They prove how delusional and stupid the average American truly is. Americans are the most confident people on earth. Too bad they are also the most egotistical, clueless, and math challenged people on earth. The poll below shows that 58% of Americans are either very or somewhat confident about their retirement. A full 75% of them think they’ll have enough to take care of basic expenses and 56% think they’ll have enough for medical expenses. The average American is an imbecile if they think they are in good shape.

Here are the facts. The median retirement balance of all households is $3,000. The median retirement balance of 45 to 64 year old households is $11,000. But still, the delusional morons in this country are confident about their retirements.

Here is some basic math for these people. If we even use $100,000 as the starting retirement account of a newly retired 65 year old, the rule of thumb is that you can’t spend more than 4% of the balance per year in retirement. That’s $4,000. The average Social Security payment is $13,000 per year. Are these blithering idiots really CONFIDENT they will be able to pay basic and medical expenses on $17,000 per year? REALLY???

I’m 100% confident the majority of Americans are truly fucked and will beg for the government to save them. I’m also 100% confident this entire edifice of debt is going to collapse under the weight of delusion, stupidity and false confidence. Carlin was absolutely right.

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

A survey conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute has found that the percentage of Americans confident of a financially comfortable retirement is increasing. 22 percent of respondents said they were very confident about the financial aspects of life after work while 36 percent were somewhat confident.

Looking closer at certain elements of retirement, 37 percent of Americans feel very confident that they will have enough money to take care of their basic expenses. However, when it comes to taking care of medical expenses and paying for long-term care, this number fell. Just 18 percent of people are very confident of being able to handle their medical expenses while even fewer, 14 percent, feel confident about paying long-term care bills, should they need to.