Americans for Prosperity: The unemployed can go jump off a cliff

[ck4829]

OK, no, they didn't actually say that. The things they said were actually a lot worse.

"In the President’s plan, businesses are encouraged to give hiring preferences to long-term unemployed individuals through generous tax credits. Furthermore, the government subsidizes joblessness through a series of unemployment benefit extensions. Why would anyone answer Obama’s call to “get to work” and champion the “American” way when they can flaunt the way of the unemployed?"

CK That's right, you'd think they'd support a tax credit as a way of getting the unemployed back to work like expanding the Work Opportunity Tax Credit to cover the long term unemployed or people who are seeing their unemployment insurance benefits expire. But no, they think it's flaunting being unemployed.

"All of these government hand-holders push the market toward "living the life" with little to no responsibility. Rather than stimulating the businesses and entrepreneurs the President exalts in his speeches, Obama is rolling out red tape and spending that actively stifles them."

CK Let's talk about red tape, shall we? Let's talk about the credit checks and the "unemployed need not apply" job ads. That's the red tape the unemployed are getting... from the 'job creators' like the ones who fashion themselves as such in Americans for Prosperity.

"Overall, this Jobs Bill is an implicit refusal to consider public opinion. Two weeks ago, Rasmussen reported, 64% of “Likely U.S. voters think thoughtful spending cuts should be considered in every program of the federal government” (emphasis added). But, the President follows up with a bill stuffed with just the opposite. Programs in this bill not only make it convenient to be unemployed, but make joblessness a self-righteous status symbol: I’m unemployed, so hire me!"

CK Emphasis mine. Yeah, those crazy leftist hippies, acting like you need a job to pay rent or pay back loans or something. Crazy.

Link here, set faces to stunned:
http://www.americansforprosperity.org/092711-obamas-new-stimulus-calls-unemployment-discrimination

[Aerows]

1. Hmmm

They don't want a job, because if they wanted one, they would already have one. If they don't already have one, there is no sense in hiring them. Encouraging people to hire them is awful, because these people don't want to work, they want to enjoy being unemployed, despite the fact that many of them want jobs.

:sarcasm:

Did I sum that up about right? Circular logic is circular.

[Boojatta]

3. There's a moral hazard that if they don't suffer enough, then ...

they might vote for the party that is trying to get us out of the economic crisis, instead of voting for the party that got us into the economic crisis.

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Except that is not circular logic.

It is circular illogic.

[Aerows]

6. Good point

I'd go with "circular illogic is circular."

[HughBeaumont]

+2

[Boojatta]

2. If all of the people who are now unemployed had been, in 2007, inventing

a wide variety of complicated financial instruments, then the financial crisis of 2008 could have been much more complicated and interesting. The actual situation is too simple, and allows people at right-wing think tanks to have fun "living the life" with little to no responsibility.

[Le Taz Hot]

4. Well,

as more and more people run out of unemployment, tragically, they may get their wish. This fucking disgusts me.

[hifiguy]

7. Why don't they take the mask off and

just call for the concentration camps to be built now? That's their endgame, so why not be honest about it?

These creatures are monsters.

[Tsiyu]

8. Americans for Prosperity for a Couple of White guys

is their TRUE name.

Or else: Americans for Widespread Poverty.



A pox on every one of these Rightwing Greed Groupies