Kilmeade: "Maybe the unemployment benefits [expiration] will get people to sober up" and take a job
July 15, 2010 6:46 am ET
From the July 15 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
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Does FOX ever delve into, like...real news? Or is FOX dedicated to just the perpetuation of of right wing myths?
Sorry...dumb question. Very dumb question...
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Yes.
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Does FOX ever delve into, like...real news? Or is FOX dedicated to just the perpetuation of of right wing myths?
Sorry...dumb question. Very dumb question...
As for Kilmeade, I'd like to see him out of a job. Heartless idiot.
Have you ever considered what value you actually add to society, Brian?
These guys are such jokes.
When they hear people on Fox saying this, or stuff like lets privatise or get rid of them programmes, the unemployed and older viewers agree under the illusion that Fox aren't talking about THEIR benefits, only the lazy people, who won't look for work. I'll avoid saying they think of only black or latin americans as lazy unemployed people because I don't wanna call everyone racist.
My point is, I'm sure the Fox viewers don't realise that when Fox, and Limbaugh and Beck, talks about these things, their viewers aren't exceptions because their "patriotic" or because their "the folks".
There's another possibility that comes to mind, especially with all of the hate, almost envy, I hear from right wingers when they talk about those on the lavish gravy train that is unemployment insurance; They may be people whose capabilities only provide them an income that is about the same as what more competent people receive in UI.
The Fox mythology appeals to victims and underachievers, that's the only way to understand those who are angry at others raking in the paltry unemployment checks.
My wingnut friends went on a small vacation with my wife and I recently. They spent the time lamenting the fact that their children can't afford health insurance. They told us how their trying to get legal help to get their house cleaner's immigration status changed.
I was good. I didn't say a word. Not a peep. Even when the same person who called me a coward 5 years ago for being against Bush's wars, told us that no young people should fight our wars, just the older people who support the wars.
I was going to ask her when she and her husband were shipping out to Iraq or Afghanistan, but like I already said, I was good. I didn't open my mouth.
Most unemployment offices are so overwhelmed right now that all someone has to do is assert every two weeks that they are looking for work, and that's good enough. They only do random checks of a few people, so many people can get by with lying about actually being diligent about looking for work.
But that doesn't really matter anyway! When unemployment is so high, it doesn't matter if Person A is a slacker, and so Person B, who diligently looks for work gets the job and Person A stays on unemployment, or if Person A and Person B both look for work, and Person A gets the job and Person B stays on unemployment. There's still one person employed and one person unemployed!
The REASON they say this is because they don't want to address the issue that there AREN'T enough jobs to go around. So they pretend that if only there weren't lazy people, we wouldn't have this problem
And THAT'S why I always, always, always make the point that there almost certainly ARE lazy people around - BUT IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE.
In California, the maximum unemployment payment is $450/week
My friend was making $92,000/yr... with a wife who works and 2 kids and a mortgage, they have been forced to file for bankruptcy (something that thanks to Bush's new rules encourages unemployment as well) and are in danger of losing their home.
When you are accustomed to taking home $1200/week, dropping to $450 is a barely livable situation.
He hasn't found a job yet and his is by no means lazy. Right now, there are so many qualified unemployed people out there, employers have a ridiculous advantage right now when it comes to hiring.
The small businesses look to foreign workers, legal or illegal, with even lower wages, to replace us temporarily, crime rates rise, we are hired to build our own prisons. The unemployment situation gets better as more and more debtor prisons are built. We export all our unemployed to India or China thus destabilizing their economies.
see, the system works!
These people are total jerks. Turning Americans against each other simply to promote a political club.
Memo to unemployed conservatives who have been fruitlessly searching for work: Your party and your pundits don't give a **** about you. To them, you are all lazy and addicted to drugs.
Have a nice day.