NV-Sen: Angle says unemployed are lazy

[Joanne98]

Another day, another stupid from Sharrrrron Angle.

Sitting down with conservative radio talk show host Heidi Harris, Angle once again addressed a topic that brought her a bit of political heat -- including a hard-hitting ad from her opponent Harry Reid-- not too long ago.

"People don't want to be unemployed," she explained. "They want to have real, full-time, permanent jobs with a future. That's what they want, and we need to create that climate in Washington, D.C. that encourages businesses to create those full-time, permanent jobs with a future, and all Shelley Berkeley and Harry Reid want to do is put a band-aid on this by extending unemployment, which really doesn't benefit anyone. What happens is of course that your skills stagnate. You become demoralized yourself, you know, feeling that I can't ever get a job, and these are not the solutions to the problem. We have real solutions, but they won't look at the real solutions."

Nevada has the highest unemployment rate in the country, at 14 percent. Insulting 14 percent of your voters isn't the way to get votes, Sharron. But aside from the bad politics, there's a deeper meaning to this, as Benen notes:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/9/3/898752/-NV-Sen:-Angle-says-unemployed-are-lazy

[marmar]

1. I say Angle's a psychotic asshole.

nt

[jaxx]

2. I say you're right.

Between her and that witch in AZ it's a hard call as to which one is the bigger asshole.

[meegbear]

3. Perhaps Ms. Angle should lead by example ...

instead of "demoralized herself" and accepting contributions, she should be working fulltime, using the money to fund her campaign.

That way, her skills won't stagnate and she'll be applying a real solution.

[Joanne98]

6. She keeps asking for 1 million people to give her $25.00 each.

That's 25 million dollars. She a greedy-ass con-artist!

[maxsolomon]

4. Apparently, Nevada likes being insulted.

considering her polling. What were her "real solutions" for unemployed Nevadans? Prospecting? Sheepherding? More gambling?

[FirstLight]

5. How dare she!

Of course, i am posting from bed :evilgrin:

(bad back from a temp job last week, and there's nothing to do but throw resumes to the ethers anyway...)

I hate not having someplace to BE, feel guilty for not having anything to 'do' and then get depressed and want to crawl in bed for a week and cry...

so i guess if that makes me lazy, whatever bitch.

[SheilaT]

7. Of course

all those unemployed are lazy! Look at all the jobs just going begging!

Yeah, right.

Personally, I'm in the ranks of underemployed, and I actually consider myself fortunate that I'm permanently at an entry level of skills and training, because I can get jobs at that level. I'm also fortunate that I can survive on those jobs. That's simply not the case for many people.