Economic indicators: consumer debt continues to grow, delinquency rises, students face "crippling debt"

[Lexicat]

Continuing the discussion from Jeff Sessions encourages courts to continue practice of fining poor people for being too poor to pay their fines:

@Lexicat

Sessions and those of his ilk are using the same gardening “logic” as refusing to water an orange tree until it produces oranges.

I find that orange tree watering schedule to be a tragically useful metaphor.