Fox News: Those receiving unemployment benefits are "freeloaders"

Heaven forbid someone stay on unemployment a little longer so that they can get a job with better wages and more job security. I mean, you don't just jump at the first burger-flipping job you see, right? Working isn't always better than not-working. Of course, "good paying" is in the eye of the beholder, and according to Fox you should be happy with whatever scraps come your way.

Where is the source for this information they are pushing?

From those who appose a minimum wage. I'm sure it's a real good paying job.

Figure's .... I have son that started as a Brick mason when he was 15 yrs and 10 months old with previous work as video store stocker and grounds keeper and pizza deliverer... not to mention re=built at least 13 engines for his father and one mech shop teacher whom at that young age also was encouraging my son to go to the state capital for a welding competition as he did tig and mig welding lo and behold his layoff has been since unfortunately since CHRISTMAS (just in time hey?) BUT yet also has been brick mason with the same outfit never has tried to find easier outfits and barely missed work even when he was hurt, Even if they don't extend his he will find something else to do and I would probably be in a small circle of other's(acquaintences') to offer to fund any of his creative skills.. Do I think the gov. should be responsible for unemployment benifits? How much has a person contributed to thier unemployment through thier wages... I dont see my son turning down any job's for even less money I do know there just isnt any large commercial industrial buildings as yet... They have stopped construction all over...all that is out there is re do for now

Capitalists blame the crises they create on workers. They did the same thing during the Great Depression.

99 weeks of Unemployment is NOT enough!!!

The point of the benefits is to make is possible for the workers to pay their bills, feed their families, and keep a roof over their heads until they can work again.

My husband and I -- both separately and together -- have been writing to you and your colleagues for months.

Apparently, nobody listened.

My husband's Tier 4 unemployment completely ran out in February. Congress has passed two one-month extensions, but that doesn't help the tens of thousands who are in the same boat with us. Those extensions only apply to those still in their 1st through 4th tiers of benefits.

Congress has failed to enact a new 5th tier of benefits. So my husband and I -- along with the thousands and thousands of others who can't find jobs -- now have NO income. We are in danger of losing our Internet and phone, which will make it that much harder to look for work. We're also in danger of losing our homes.

There are no full-time jobs here that will hire my husband at age 57 -- despite the fact that he's a Viet Nam era veteran. He scraps metal with our neighbor -- when the landlord will loan us the truck that used to be ours (the landlord accepted it as payment for one month's rent). Our car doesn't run -- so my husband rides his bike seven miles into town to the day-labor office. In the last week, he has earned less than $30 because there's not enough day-labor work.

That's barely enough to buy toilet paper, shampoo, and dish soap. No way will it get the car fixed.

Unless a new tier 5 is enacted, we'll be evicted -- and homeless -- at the end of the month. We have already received an eviction notice.

I'm disabled and can't work -- yet I'm my third go round of being denied SSD benefits. I also have a compromised immune system and suffer from recurring abcesses. Losing our home and moving to a tent is liable to kill me.

Enact a Tier 5 Unemployment now!!! If you don't... My blood will be on your hands.

I hope Fox "News" ultimately pulls out enough rope to hang themselves. This is a good start.

This is just typical NEOCON mindset( i've got mine and screw you).

The ratio of job openings to unemployed people is about six to one. Six people cannot take the same job.

It's this kind of rhetoric that leads people like Jim David Adkinson to go into churches and start shooting people. He was a very conservative man who was a truck driver. He was also out of work while desperately searching for work and I believe on a form of welfare (foodstamps if I'm correct.)And of course out of his frustration of not finding work and the messages of hate from his conservative books (Savage, Beck, Coulter, O'Reilly, Hannity, etc) he went into a church in Knoxville, TN and shot up some folks. Pretty liberal church by the way.

And yet, people who are conservative who are on assistance will still watch these vipers and allow themselves to be insulted. And by virtue of doing that, lower their self esteem and attack others out of anger. And of course fox news just doesn't care on bit. As a side note, I wonder if they'll call Rush Limbaugh a "freeloader" for the short time period he was on assistance. Feel free to reply and give your opinion on my post.