Dana7360
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Krugman is a national treasure I tell you.
Paul Krugman dismantles Boehner 8217 s callous attack on the unemployed - Salon.com
Highlighting John Boehner’s recent American Enterprise Institute speech blaming joblessness on people who would “rather sit around” than find work, Krugman notes that Boehner’s sneering condescension is emblematic of the GOP’s long-standing contempt for Americans out of work. That attitude – “impervious to logic and evidence,” Krugman writes — explains the right’s campaign to dismantle the social safety net.
But what’s particularly strange about Boehner and the right’s continued laziness meme, Krugman observes, is that “the blame-the-victim crowd has gotten everything it wanted: benefits, especially for the long-term unemployed, have been slashed or eliminated.” Boehner might have us believe that the jobless are welfare bums, but as Krugman points out, not only were they not bums in the first place, but there’s largely no welfare for them to collect, either.
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boehner has a lot of nerve saying the unemployed are lazy.
How many days has the House of Reps been working this year? Isn't it around less than 100 days?
This has got to be the most laziest congress in history. They don't even bother to show up and do the people's work.
They spend days whining about isis and it's going to kill us all but when they have a chance to do something about it, they leave town and don't work.
These people are being paid nearly 200 thousand dollars a year to work less than one third of the year.
Republicans have to be the most laziest people in our nation. They want the money but don't want to do the work.