Limbaugh: "Extended unemployment benefits do nothing but incentivize people not to look for work"
June 29, 2010 1:16 pm ET
From the June 29 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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YOU LIE!
YOU LIE!
I want to tell you right now.. some of the most difficult jobs in the country are held by people who host radio talk shows
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Otherwise, those millions, who no doubt include many Republicans, would realize that the Republitoads in Congress are heartless, selfish bastards.
Every working American pays a premium for that insurance, which means every working American is entitled to collect it when they're laid off.
I believe Limbaugh does his radio show from Florida, and that state likely wouldn't pay his unemployment insurance claim. He would, after all, be "at fault" for his own termination.
Then again, he could still collect disability since he's clearly gorged himself to the point of utter immobility...
During times like this, when there's multiple job applicants for every available position, it doesn't matter for unemployment purposes if Person A is lazy and continues to collect unemployment, and Person B gets the job or if Person A actively searches for work and gets the job and Person B continues to collect unemployment!
This is not rocket science, yet they somehow don't understand it apparently.
275 a week?
LImpy'd blow that on one Dominican boy for one hour . . .
And unemployment being an incentive to not look for work?
Maximum for family of 3 in Iowa - about 400 a week...barely enough to buy food and gas.. certainly not enough to pay a mortage, buy health insurance, pay for education, etc, etc. Let's see how "incentivized" you'd be on that, Rush.
Idiot.
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This is what happens when someone is paid to give thier oppinion despite never having had a REAL JOB.
Not to mention, it's a frickin recession, how hard can you look?? Jobs are coming back slowly and it's a fight for people right now. Until some 3rd world outsourced work comes back to the US the employment problem will persist.
During high usage times like this, unemployment offices don't challenge claims very often and don't ask everyone to prove that they're searching, and in most cases, probably don't do in-depth searches of the evidence that claimants might have to provide.
As a person who was unemployed and received two unemployment checks before I was fortunately hired again, I could see the allure of receiving $200 a week when your mortgage is close to $700 and you have student loans and utilities to pay before you can eat.
Try living on $800 a month for a few months and then come back to us with some real perspective. Otherwise, stick with telling us about the wedding where you just shelled out a mil to have Elton John sing.
Hatch wanting to test those unemployed for drugs???WTF! Peoples's groups being called special interest and corporate groups described as grass roots. The rich are being oppressed and put apon by the greedy undeserving masses. As if anything Limbaugh does actually fits the definition of work making the millions he does for what he does is just another example of how screwed and topsy turvy this world really is. This is just insulting and callous what a pompous arse.
I wonder did Limpy feel that way himself after the KC Royals fired him back in the '80s . . .
Dittoheads, if any of you are lurking around, I seriously want to know,has Rush Limbaugh ever done an honest day's work?
I'm betting he consumed as many burgers as he served . . .
Just like George W, Rush's road was paved by daddy and daddy's friends. Any failure simply lead to another well-paying gig, until he finally found something he could get paid for without daddy's assistance.
So no, Rush has no idea what it's like to actually have to compete for a job, struggle for financial security, or suffer. His philosophy is that of the Social Darwinist wealthy who have been handed everything by their parents and can't build up empathy for people who weren't smart enough to be born rich.
He has such a cynical view of his fellow Americans. He probably thinks that if we're not millionaires like him, then we must be lazy and therefore immoral and deserving of our dire straits.
I hate his fat punk a**.
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MCCAIN: How about $5 million?
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I love how you trolls feel like you can just casually shift to a new topic, and continue to be taken seriously, right after being caught in a barefaced LIE.
Sorry, Craig, doesn't work that way. You threw out a pile of BS that you can't back up, and we are going to throw it right back at you every time you post. I suggest you just admit you are full of it, or change your screename. "Sorry girls" isn't going to cut it here- you are the one who stepped in it.
I don't even blame Limbaugh for hating America- if I had become enormously successful selling unadulterated garbage to millions of people, I'd become disgusted with the society that supported me, too. I'd come to think of my adoring fans as "useful idiots"- as Lonesome Rhodes said when he thought the mike was off "the public is just a bunch of sheep. I can sell them dog food and make 'em think it's steak. I throw them a fish and they flap their flippers."
A Face in the Crowd. If folks here haven't seen it, ya need to.
And what was he going to do with this power? Well, near the climactic scene, he snarls "I'm gonna start shooting people instead of ducks!"