A cartoon that isn't funny

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85. When those parents get home at 3AM from their second job

I'm sure they'll have all the energy in the world to care.

Not that it'll do any good. The kids are asleep and wake up in a few hours. If their homework isn't done, there's nothing TO be done. That's that.

Did you ever wonder if maybe, just maybe, if we straightened out the nation's economic situation, those same parents might be able to work ONE job each, instead of two, because it pays enough to support a family, and would then have enough time to be home when their kids got out of school, so they could BE THERE FOR THEM?

Fun fact: many parents raising children in school, parents who work minimum-wage jobs, DO NOT KNOW from one week to the next whether or when they'll be working, that it may not be the same shift they worked this week, or that they'll know IF they're working that day IF they get a phone call by the time the shop closes up?

Do economic factors affecting these families you're spitting on with such enthusiasm even enter into your equation at all? Parents can't be there for their kids to help with their homework if their boss tells them with no warning that it's third shift this week, you know.... and parents can't plan for school concerts or parent-teacher conferences or ANYTHING else when they don't know from one week to the next what their hours are, AND THAT'S THE BEST JOB IN TOWN, AND THEY WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BEAT FIFTY OTHER APPLICANTS FOR IT.