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Since the government shutdown two weeks ago, websites matching young girls to “Sugar Daddies” have seen a record increase in sign ups. In other words, because the assholes in Congress can’t get along, government employees aren’t getting paid, and young women have taken to borderline prostitution as a way to make rent. Well done, Harry Reid. Well done.
Currently, there are 800,000 government employees furloughed without pay and nearly 2 million that are required to go into work, yet are going without pay indefinitely. Prior to the shutdown, agencies claimed that government staffers would not likely be affected by going without pay, as they claimed that the average American should be able to float unemployment for six months. What. A. Joke. Our national debt is currently 16 trillion dollars, our minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, and our underemployment rating is 18.4%. Congress is so inept that they had to completely shut down the government to try to get anything done and the President is throwing a bitchfit, threatening vetoes and executive orders left and right should things not go his way. But the people who are currently going without a paycheck because our leaders can’t get their shit together? Yeah, those people – the people who work for a living – are expected to stand on their own two feet and fend for themselves.
It’s horrible that it’s come to this, that because of personal agendas, selfishness, and a hellish case of procrastination, girls who would otherwise have a stable income, are being forced to pimp themselves out to rich men in the hopes of making ends meet. Think I’m lying? Honestly, I wish I were. The website profiled by CBS DC, SeekingArrangement.com, has seen a 50% jump in daily sign ups since the start of the shutdown. The company’s PR rep, Jennifer Gwynn, stated that typically, September and October are slow months for the business. “For us to peak at the end of the month in September…it makes no sense for us,” Gwynn acknowledged. She cites the current government situation as the reason for the spike in business, stating “we’re thinking that it’s tied directly to the government shutdown…it would make no sense for growth otherwise.”
Gwynn went on to state that many of her website’s new female members are single moms, who, thanks to the shutdown, are no longer receiving government assistance from programs like WIC, which provides nutritional food to low-income mothers of small children. As a result of the loss of assistance and likely the loss of a paycheck, these single mothers have turned to websites like SeekingArrangement. Hurts your heart, doesn’t it?
It makes me sick to think that skeezy men are reaping the benefits of vulnerable, financially desperate women. And it makes me angry that politicians, the ones we elected to represent us, are inadvertently to blame for it. I won’t get unnecessary political because this site is not the place to do so, but I will say that this shutdown is bullshit. I understand the stalemate, I do. But the fact of the matter is, everyone knew that a shutdown would come, that a shutdown was looming, and they chose to ignore it. Now we’re in an unnecessary pissing contest over who can hold out the longest. And for what? Maybe I’m a cynic and maybe I voted for the other guy, but I have a feeling that Obama is going to play every card possible in order to get his way. I think that we have senators and congressmen who are enjoying their soapbox a little too much.So, I think that everyone needs to suck it up, cut a deal, and get people back to their jobs. Call me a bad American. Call me a feminist. Call me whatever you’d like. This country is supposed to take care of its people, not turn her back on them. Women are whoring themselves out because their government abandoned them. And you know what? That’s not right. This is America. We’re better than that.
[via CBS Washington]
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Catie Warren
Catie struggles with adulthood and has been celebrating her 21st birthday for the past three years. She attended college in the nation’s capital and to this day is angry that Pit Bull lied to her, as you cannot, in fact, party on The White House lawn. Prior to her success with PGP, Catie was most famous for being featured in her hometown newspaper regarding her 5th grade Science Fair Project for which she did not place. In her spare time, she enjoys attributing famous historical quotes to Marilyn Monroe and getting in fights with thirteen year olds on twitter. Email: catie@grandex.co
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Did you really just, in the same column, complain about an unavailability of government services and blame the Democrats for the shutdown?
I blame Obama for everything, from the drone strikes to my hangover, so why can’t she?
^ Now this man is a true American.
This column is what happens when you’re PMSing and watching too much news.
“It makes me sick to think that skeezy men are reaping the benefits of vulnerable, financially desperate women.”
No one forced these desperate women to sign-up on the site.
Isn’t that what that website is all about?
While I hate everyone in Washington. National Government doesn’t create revenue. They tax us to pay people and “assist poor people.” If you can’t work two or three part time jobs instead of resorting to being a paid slut then you aren’t trying or budgeting enough. Also if people knew how to budget you would have an emergency fund account to have when shit happens. The elected officials can’t make a budget and most people can’t budget themselves personally. Look at the debts. Not a shocker on both levels. That’s all my brain can spew before I implode.
Welcome to pretty much all of modern history. Next time you should profile what all of the male government employees are doing to cope with making ends meet during the government shutdown.
They started out with Johnnie Walker blue and as time went on they were beat down to black, but in the end it was all still Johnnie Walker (aka crap).
Instead of this pseudo-informed political crap, where is manic monday mailbag
I second this. The Mailbag is the best part of PGP.
God bless the USA!
I mean, it is absolutely heartbreaking to hear that women are prostituting themselves to make ends meet because of a position they’re only partially responsible for…
… but monetizing sexuality is usually not even an option for most men. It’s a dirty, degrading job, but it’s certainly not the worst one out there.
We can at least agree that political brinkmanship is hurting too many of the working poor, and it needs to stop.
The government giveth and the government taketh away, and it shouldn’t be that way because too many fucking people are dependent upon the government in one way or another.
Other than the fact that PGP is where I first turn for insightful political commentary…. haha ok I’m sorry
This is a hilariously incompetent piece of writing. Whomever is reviewing submissions: want to actually read the content you’re posting. Yeesh