Exactly, he’s admitting that his mother would rather feed at the trough than getting a job and supporting her kids.
It wasn’t as if she was getting her first degree. Wasn’t this her master or PhD?
(It’s his constituency)
He’s also dissing all the help and love that he got from his grandparents.
I dont know whether it was masters or doctorate but it must have been one of them because she went off to Indonesia for her field work for a long time. That just doesnt sound like a B.A. to me.
I swear, my grandfather would have worked three jobs before he accepted a single food stamp from the govt.