FOX "News": Air conditioning is the "ugly side of entitlements"

[BluegrassStateBlues]

Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Thursday suggested that welfare recipients who had air conditioning and cell phones were part of the “ugly side of entitlements.”

During Thursday’s Fox & Friends, Hasselbeck plugged a report that libertarian Fox Business host John Stossel is running this week that he claims will show how welfare creates a culture of dependency.

“Do these folks really need to be on welfare,” she asked, followed by video of Stossel interview apparent welfare recipients on the street.

“Yeah, I have a TV,” one woman says.

“Yeah, I have a television,” a man tells Stossel.

“Do you have air conditioning,” Stossel presses. “Yes,” the man replies.

“John Stossel checking into that and exposing the ugly side of entitlements,” Hasselbeck remarked following the video clip.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/10/fox-news-hasselbeck-calls-air-conditioning-the-ugly-side-of-welfare/

[tosh]

1. Oh good grief!

Hasselbeck needs to come down to the deep south and spend a few weeks without A/C.

No, I'll bet she couldn't last for 24 hours.

What a privileged witch she is.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

5. In Foxnews world, you should suffer, be punished, and humiliated

If you are poor.

[roguevalley]

36. if anyone is an expert on ugly, its that halfwit shrew.

complete waste of dna

[VanillaRhapsody]

2. So because we don't have more people living in cardboard boxes

we don't really have a poverty problem according to theses assholes! What these folks believe is that we need MORE suffering!

You are supposed to live in a cardboard box and then pull yourself up by the straps on the boots you no longer own!

[kentauros]

17. I suspect that to them,

you're entitled if you have a cardboard box. And then if you don't have one, you're entitled because you still have clothing to wear. And if you don't have clothing to wear, you're entitled because you're still alive!

They don't want anyone "lower" than them to get any of their "hard-earned" money. If there was a federal government campaign to "kill the poor" they'd be behind it, calling it government money well-spent.

[VanillaRhapsody]

19. the problem is that they actually NEED a class lower than them

its their only way to feel superior. If others are suffering what they are not....then they must be valuable and important. Its delusions of granduer.

[Warpy]

3. I don't suppose that snippy little twit

has any idea about who owns the AC unit (the landlord) and how often it's run during the summer (try never, it costs too much).

You can get an analog color TV from a thrift shop for $25-50, it's what I've paid.

These clowns need to shut the fuck up and listen. However, they're too busy slamming other people and so will forever remain ignorant.

[City Lights]

4. They really get off on the suffering of others.

And I bet they thump their Bibles every night.

[onethatcares]

24. more like

hump their bibles everynight.

From the beginning this country has stepped on, kicked down and beat up just about every low income segment that came their way.

Sometimes I think it would have been better if the Native Americans would have let the English starve to death in the cold.

[TheMastersNemesis]

6. GOP Really Believes Welfare People Should Just Die

Why don't they call for execution they hate welfare recipients so much. I guess unless they are wearing hair shirts or are naked.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Republicans expect one to be totally destitute,

dressed in rags and eating gruel at a Bowery soup kitchen
before they deserve the slightest charity (and even then
its doubtful they'd have the slightest compassion).

Fiends.

[lpbk2713]

8. "Force them all to work in sweat shops!!11!"

Five dollars a day and sixteen hour work days.


These idiots are unfuggenbelievable.

[tosh]

16. I think that is their goal, actually.

Seriously.

[jsr]

9. Why don't poor people just lie in the gutter and die like in India?

[davidn3600]

10. Is Stossel really still on that crap?

He was making a big deal about that years ago about people who have TV or a cell phone who get food stamps. He acted like they were criminals scamming the system.

The man is obsessed with this.

[TheDebbieDee]

11. OFFS! Fox once published a poll in which the respondents

believed that if a family has a refrigerator or access to a refrigerator, then that family should never be entitled to SNAP benefits.

[jsr]

12. Refrigerator? All they need is ice blocks, sawdust and a hole in the ground.

[frylock]

25. fuck that. poor people should not be indulging in perishable items..

idiot asshole john molestache stossel probably believes that top ramen is a fucking luxury.

[enki23]

13. Do you not see these same assholes everywhere in the world, throughout history?

"Conservatives" will not care. At no time, and in no place, has the conservative faction ever given a fucking inch for compassion. They don't have it for anyone outside their tiny little circles. Their empathy stretches as far as their fucking fingertips, and no further. Do not expect them to suddenly realize their mistake just because people are being hurt. They only say "people will be helped" by their policies because they desire their policies, not because they actually give a *fuck* whether people are actually helped or hurt.

The only conservatives who give a damn about the poor at all, are poor *themselves*. And they only care about themselves, and a very small circle of others at best. At *best*. And do not expect many of the poorer people on *our side* to be any different if, by some miracle, things start to get better for substantial numbers of them.

The fraction of humans who regularly feel real empathy for the poor, without themselves being poor, is not very fucking big. It never has been, and it never will be. The poor only have power when nearly everyone is poor. If then. And the power is only the increasingly-limited power that comes from lots of bodies. Because bodies is pretty much all we have. Because we're fucking poor.

[warrior1]

14. Charles Dickens

"At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge, ... it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
"Are there no prisons?"
"Plenty of prisons..."
"And the Union workhouses." demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
"Both very busy, sir..."
"Those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

[AZ Progressive]

15. ONLY COWARDS like to prey on people weaker than them

Libertarians and Right Wingers, just like the typical schoolyard bully, are cowards for preying on people weaker and much less fortunate than them.

[Skidmore]

18. Ah, from the mouths of those with a huge sense of entitlement.

This woman is so clueless.

[okieinpain]

20. yet they want to get rid of abortion so women will have more babies.

then turn around and say die because you're poor and you shouldn't have air conditoning in your home to take care of the little babies that we want born, because they love the little babies. lol.

[eqfan592]

21. I'm so tired if this shit

If poor people don't fit the mental image these assholes have of complete destitution, then they must be scamming the system in their book. Just disgusting.

[Initech]

22. Another proud member of the "I've got mine, fuck you" crowd.

[HughBeaumont]

23. Bug breakfasts and mud huts. That's the new GOP poverty bar.

More comparing America's poor to Sub-Saharan Africa's poor instead of the poor in modernized industrial nations. Fox News, admit you're a propaganda arm or GET OFF THE AIR!!

[frylock]

26. this ho gets her start on a shitty fake reality teevee program..

is just pretty enough to marry a former NFL quarterback, and has the balls to talk about entitlement?! I truly hate these people.

[liberal N proud]

27. The haves really want the have not to be completely destitute

What I still don't get is the people who support these fuckers.

[jmowreader]

28. This comes to mind

[Tommy_Carcetti]

33. LOL.

Thanks, I needed that laugh.

[apnu]

29. Holy fucking shit! What an idiot.

When I lived way down in Southern Illinois, every rental property. Be it a house, dorm room, loft of trailer was required, by law, to have air-conditioning. Its a humid swamp down there, I'm sure other places with similar climates have similar laws. Up here in Chicago, we have laws about providing heat in the winter and when that can be turned off or not in the case of a dead beat not paying his bills. Why? Because if someone fails to pay their gas or electric bill won't die from the cold. Because that's happened before.

Compassionate Conservative my ass.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

30. Don't you know? Only rich people get to have cell phones. Take Zach Morris, for example.

Zach Morris was rich. Very rich. So rich to afford the latest stonewashed jeans from Jordache. He became rich thanks in part to the hard work of his father, who made a killing selling Commodore 64s.

These welfare hogs all want to replicate the great success of the famous American entrepreneur/job creator/achiever Zach Morris, with their cellphones. And their air conditioning. And their indoor plumbing. And shoes.

[Politicalboi]

31. Next, Faux News wonders

Is toilet paper a luxury?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

32. Of course not.

We've all seen trees, haven't we?

Well, what grows on trees?

Bingo!

[yuiyoshida]

34. Yeah cause People living in

Blythe California should live without AC and Die slowly ..making Fox News Hosts Happy...


Baka! Doji! Manuke!!!
(foolish, clumsey, and stupid)

Jigoku ni ochiru Fox News!
(go to hell)

[Liberal_in_LA]

35. air conditioner is standard with all apartments in my area (hot)