Labor Sec Perez wants to 'punch' those who blame unemployed for being unemployed
Labor Secretary Tom Perez has a very reasonable response to politicians blaming jobless people for being unemployed when there aren't enough jobs to go around:
"When I hear people on Capitol Hill say the long-term unemployed are unemployed by choice, I wanna punch 'em," Perez said Tuesday during a meeting with reporters.
Perez paused and smiled. The reporters laughed. Perez said he felt strongly about the hardship of unemployment because as a youngster in Buffalo, New York, he'd witnessed his surrogate father struggle after a layoff -- and because of his conversations with unemployed people today.
"The thing they say that angers them as much as anything is when politicians suggest they're unemployed by choice, they're just sitting at home eating bonbons," Perez said. (He didn't cite a specific example of a politician alleging bonbon consumption by unemployed people.)
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what's that, you have been talking to them and they still say this?
then I wholeheartedly support your punching them 