Bry

she/her, mom, wife, special education, teacher, Community and Mister Rogers fan.

[Bry @theschmoopy]

It makes me so happy that I share a birthday with my favorite show. Even if I am significantly older!

[Communies @communiess]

On this date 14 years ago, the Pilot aired! Written by Dan Harmon and directed by Anthony Russo & Joe Russo, and I have been weird ever since.

You know what makes humans different from other animals?
Feet.
No, no no. Come on, bears have feet.

#OriginalAiring

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@swiftlydunphy Ooof. I truly cannot pick!

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@TONYxTWO Based on her reported wealth, the 10M she is reported to give is 0.004%. By comparison, on my salary of 61,000 that would be like me giving $244…. So yeah maybe open your own bank account before asking those of us with less??

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@communiess I always go the extra mile to avoid doing work

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@ThenAlexSaid1 @ninaturner So instead I should continue to work a low wage job and need more government assistance. Or better myself and finances to put myself and my kids in a better place.

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@codycr6 @FlynDutchman466 @PatrickKeschl @ninaturner Prior to our current gap the longest time between raising the minimum wage was 10 years. It has been 14 years now. https://t.co/q0J6L0Tf7C

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@codycr6 @FlynDutchman466 @PatrickKeschl @ninaturner Minimum wage started in 1938, welfare in the 30’s too. It is what helped us out of the Great Depression. https://t.co/aob62eYPde

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@codycr6 @FlynDutchman466 @PatrickKeschl @ninaturner Only cause the only other choice was worse. I wish we could throw all of them out. Both sides are corrupt and beholden to their donors. They no longer represent us.

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@codycr6 @FlynDutchman466 @PatrickKeschl @ninaturner And it is even worse for our kids. My son makes well over minimum and is still at home because housing is insanely unaffordable. The same apt I lived in 15 years ago for $750 a month is now nearly $1400 with no improvements. Even with roommates they are priced out.

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@6seasonspodcast @StephenPerrino @BigBrownSweater @ninaturner Mocking our intelligence for trying to better our lives while paying $11 a month to a billionaire for a free service. 🤦‍♀️

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@codycr6 @FlynDutchman466 @PatrickKeschl @ninaturner And what if business like Nike and Amazon that pay nothing. Or oil companies that pay nothing and get a subsidy? Is that ok?

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@codycr6 @FlynDutchman466 @PatrickKeschl @ninaturner By dollar amount or percentage? Look up tax rate vs effective tax rate.

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@codycr6 @FlynDutchman466 @PatrickKeschl @ninaturner Ok. Have you not seen the explosion of homelessness?? Yes we have more. But even if I lived exactly like my grandparents, it is not the same. I couldn’t buy a house like them, college is vastly more expensive, all costs are more. The difference? We stopped taxing the wealthiest

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@codycr6 @FlynDutchman466 @PatrickKeschl @ninaturner Oh I am well aware it is not. I live in Idaho. It is shameful what it actually is.

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@codycr6 @FlynDutchman466 @PatrickKeschl @ninaturner Awesome. Hopefully they also raised your pay for the hard work you do!

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@codycr6 @FlynDutchman466 @PatrickKeschl @ninaturner Correction. Family with 5 kids.

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@codycr6 @FlynDutchman466 @PatrickKeschl @ninaturner My grandfather worked as a school bus driver and custodian and raised a family of 5, bought a house on just his income. That is not possible today due to a government bought by lobbyists and corporate greed. Remember when Scrooge was a bad guy? Now he’d be praised.

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@codycr6 @FlynDutchman466 @PatrickKeschl @ninaturner But they do and that is the problem. We don’t have a fair market economy when the government bails our failures of business right? And why does Elon need an incentive? Does he not have enough? Not to mention the taxpayer money we give him.

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@codycr6 @FlynDutchman466 @PatrickKeschl @ninaturner Right. But it hasn’t always been this way. Back when we had a fair tax system and a functioning government not owed by donors, you could work for minimum wage and raise a family as a single income household. That is impossible now and that is the problem.

[Bry @theschmoopy]

@codycr6 @FlynDutchman466 @PatrickKeschl @ninaturner It is fair that those that make the most pay the most. But that is not happening. They get the benefits of our government (educated workforce, roads, fire and police protection, etc) but don’t pay their share towards those programs.