Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be, Bunning Was "Brave"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

First Posted: 03- 7-10 10:55 AM | Updated: 03- 7-10 11:06 AM



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/07/tom-delay-jim-bunning-was_n_489050.html

Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay called Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) "brave" on Sunday for launching a one-man filibuster of unemployment benefits, arguing that they dissuaded people from going out and finding work.

Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," the Texas Republican said that Bunning's fiscal responsibility was commendable, even if his shenanigans (refusing to allow unemployment benefits to be considered by unanimous consent) nearly brought the Senate to a halt.

"Nothing would have happened if the Democrats had just paid for ," Delay said. "People would have gotten their unemployment compensation. I think Bunning was brave in standing up there and taking it on by himself."

Asked whether it was bad strategy to make a budget stand on a $10 billion extension of unemployment (as opposed to, say, the Bush's $720 billion prescription drug package), Delay insisted that if the PR had been done right, Bunning would have been applauded. Helping the unemployed with federal assistance, he said, was unsound policy.

"You know," Delay said, "there is an argument to be made that these extensions, the unemployment benefits keeps people from going and finding jobs. In fact there are some studies that have been done that show people stay on unemployment compensation and they don't look for a job until two or three weeks before they know the benefits are going to run out.

Host Candy Crowley: Congressman, that's a hard sell, isn't it?

Delay: it's the truth.

Crowley: People are unemployed because they want to be?

Delay: well, it is the truth. and people in the real world know it. And they have friends and they know it. Sure, we ought to be helping people that are unemployed find a job, but we also have budget considerations that are incredibly important, especially now that Obama is spending monies that we don't have.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Why isn't that corrupt bastard in jail?

[AllentownJake]

15. Why is that the first question I ask myself when I hear his name. nt.

[Bitwit1234]

30. That is what I posted on another message.

He was indicted and should have gone to trial. How come he didn't. And besides who is he to give an opinion on anything.

[eShirl]

2. I'm surprised they don't use this kind of logic against health care reform

i.e. "People are sick or injured because they want to be."

[mrcheerful]

22. They do, people are ill because of the foods they ate, people weren't careful enough

in work or play, people smoked cigarettes and also people choose to not buy health insurance. Work place exposers and related illnesses and disease are choices of work one does, they choose the jobs they have so they know all of the hazards that the job has. See it is all about personal responsibility while not holding those employee's or insurance companies responsible for anything they force people to do. Get a job that causes joint or back injury? You knew doing that kind of work causes those injuries so it's your fault.

I have heard these same nit wits tell a person that was disabled from an auto accident at the age of 5 that he caused his own cripledness, the guy had ran out into the street while his father was beating him with a belt, according to the nit wits the 5 year old should have known better then run into the street without looking and besides the 5 year old should have taken the beating like a man. The father was innocent of anything that the child had happen to him, after all he was just being a good parent and the driver of the car wasn't at fault either, though he was driving at 45 mph in a residential area which state law states has a speed limit of 25 mph. Nope it was all the lack of responsibility of the 5 year old.

[DBoon]

37. exactly

I've heard people argue that subsidized healthcare is wrong because, "Why should I pay for someone else's unhealthy lifestyle".

There are many many people who believe you only get sick if you have done something wrong, or if you have a "bad attitude".

[FBaggins]

3. They only "disuade" people from looking for jobs...

...when there ARE jobs to be had.

[Berry Cool]

4. Two words for Tom DeLay:

FUCK. YOU.

Oh yeah, and you belong in prison, you motherfucker.

[Lint Head]

5. Delay is a criminal because he wants to be.

[Bitwit1234]

31. Correct correct correct

[Faygo Kid]

6. Reprehensible scumbag. They all are, he's just more obvious than others.

It's difficult to understand someone's "brain" being wired like that. They are everywhere, though.

And they get a free pass from the "mainstream" media.

[my2sense]

8. You would think the M$M

would distance themselves for criminals and the like. They don't even try to appear to have integrity anymore.

[annabanana]

32. CNN is no longer "MSM".. they are Fox in a better cut of suit.. . n/t

[Faygo Kid]

51. Well said.

Today I posted that the Washington Post is the print version of Fox News.

I think we are both right.

[midnight]

Does Tom still have a job?

[nebenaube]

7. Hey TOM ASSHOLE DELAY!

I have a job asshole... I have no customers and my current clients are broke!

[Ikonoklast]

9. He is lacking in intelligence, morals, knowledge, and a human soul.

And as far as backing up your asshole opinion with actual facts, no one calls him on it.

"Those that assert, must first prove."

Delay needs to bring forth any studies vetted by reliable, independent organizations that can show factual eveidence to support his untenable position that people "want to be unemployed".




Other than that, die screaming in a fire you piece of shit criminal pissant.

[tonysam]

24. You can't get UI if you quit, so of course these people didn't "want"

to be unemployed, and they didn't "choose" to be.

[GoCubsGo]

34. It amazes me that these fucksticks don't get that.

I would much rather be back at my old job than being subjected to jumping through hoops to get unemployment at a fraction of what I was making, having to look for a job, interviewing, worrying about paying my bills, seeing my hard-earned life savings disappear, and watching my health deteriorate from all the stress this is causing. I am sure it has already take 10 years off my life. Not to mention all the humiliation when everyone I know sees that I STILL don't have a job. Fuck Hot Tub Tommy and the horse he rode in on. It amazes me that somebody hasn't "gone postal" on him and these other assholes yet.

[tonysam]

40. I had my career stolen from me, and it's all but impossible

to get back on track with few years left before I can "officially" retire.

[GoCubsGo]

45. Me, too.

"Stolen"--yep. Excellent way of putting it. Ditto for that 10 years this has taken of life so far.

[Lil Missy]

10. Why isn't this weasel in jail yet??

[Wapsie B]

11. "Obama is spending monies that we don't have."

Where was he during *'s spending free for all? Thanks to the chimp and Cheney we're in hock up to our eyeballs.

[Dulcinea]

12. CNN should be embarrassed to have this asswipe on their network.

Who cares what he thinks? GO FUCK YOURSELF, DELAY.

[angrycarpenter]

13. What about us that were denied unemployment

and still cannot find a job? By his "logic" I should have a job by now just because I got off my ass and looked. Hateful negligent bastard.

[saltpoint]

14. A slot in Hell's very lowest rung shall for Tom DeLay be reserved.

[Arkana]

16. Hey, Tom Delay is still a useless cretin.

Why is anyone surprised by this?

Let him tell the 50-year-old steelworker in Pennsylvania that he's unemployed "because he chooses to be". Tom would be sucking food through a straw for weeks.

[global1]

17. Why Is He Even Still Being Addressed As Congressman?........nt

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

18. STFU Delay! I don't like being unemployed one bit

[Urban Prairie]

19. Delay has no "job"

He was a public servant, and his salary and benefits came from taxes paid by US citizens, including those now unemployed that he believes should get cut off.

Fucking hypocrite!!

:grr:

[Fire1]

20. See, it's people like this that give Ky. a bad name. Where do

they find these knuckle draggers??!!!

[DainBramaged]

21. Tom DeLay, asshat and criminal, fuck him and the floor he danced on.

[bamacrat]

23. What a piece of shit.

I would say that maybe 1 out of every 1,000,000 people is like that, maybe. And start looking for a job a few weeks before compensation runs out? Please I have been looking for a job for about six months and it is hard. The jobs I can do I am overqualified for, the careers I would like to enter into I don't have enough experience. There are a lot of us out there that are too overqualified for entry level jobs but don't have enough experience to get a mid-level job so we just have to wait and hope something happens. It sucks.

[neverforget]

25. These Republicans keep writing Democratic campaign commercials

I'm hoping to see some this fall.

[Warpy]

26. These elitist fucks are our best friends

because every time they say this garbage, they win us more voters who finally got their eyes opened to exactly what the Republicans are.

[TheWebHead]

27. if unemployment stays above 9% for nearly 2 more years

which probably isn't out of the question, should we continue to extend unemployment benefits beyond what we've done so far, which is up to 99 weeks? You could have people collecting benefits for nearly 4 years, never mind if there is a double dip recession.

[tonysam]

41. So should they just starve to death because there are no jobs?

What is your point?

[TK421]

43. What is the alternative? If there are no jobs, or until that situation improves

it would be disastrous if everyone collecting unemployment were not given aid. I've been unemployed since June of last year and I'll tell you what..there are ZERO jobs around here

I do understand what you're saying, just had to get that out of my system

[TheWebHead]

53. I guess the alternative is to do what we do...

when the unemployment rate was 5-6% and when people's benefit period ran out that was it. If unemployment is structurally above 8% during the medium term, then the conversation of either ending these extensions or laddering the benefit down has to begin soon. We already are offering the world's longest unemployment benefits at 99 weeks.

[rcrush]

49. So what do you do then?

[Leftist Agitator]

28. If I ever decide to commit suicide, I'm taking him with me.

Fucking bastard.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

29. NOW? that OBAMA? is spending monies we don't have????????

I have two words for Dancy Pants:


1)bush

2) FUCKYOUyouLYINGtunnelvisionedrepuke(emphasisonPUKE)POS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[prolesunited]

33. Fuck you, Delay!

I'm watching my life crumble -- you know the one I built up after paying for college on my own to get a degree (the first in my family!), working hard -- many years multiple jobs, paying taxes for decades and I can't find a fucking job and it sure isn't from a lack of trying.

In a tight job market, I am OLD, too experienced and expendable. I froze all winter, grow a garden and can produce, shop at thrift stores so I can fight to keep my house, hardly drive my car, etc. and it's all because I want to live like this?!?!?

Fuck you! No, I want a job. I want to have some money to cover the basics and maybe have a splurge or two. I want to have health insurance after having my COBRA run out.

Tell me what the fuck I did wrong? Did to deserve this? I pursued the American Dream and had achieved some measure of stability and then you and your fuckhead corporatist colleagues off-shored the U.S. economy, pulled the rug out from under us and left us stranded.

THEN, you have the fucking unmitigated audacity to actually fucking blame US -- the middle class victims of your decades of greed and corruption.

FUCK YOU a million times over

[GoCubsGo]

35. +1

You described my life and my feelings exactly. What planet do these fucking assholes live on????

[EC]

36. I for one hope a lot more repuge assholes come right out and

say this in public...it's a perfect reflection of their viewpoints...and everyone knows someone unemployed and knows they WANT a job...so they'll absolutely hate these guys...

[DBoon]

38. and the unemployment rate increased because of a sudden outbreak of laziness?

yeah right

[Initech]

39. Bullshit!!! People are unemployed because there's no fucking jobs to be found!

[tonysam]

42. DeLay needs a job making license plates. n/t

[TK421]

44. Suck me Tom n/t

[nashville_brook]

46. we can't all be on Dancing With The Stars.

[True_Blue]

47. The "Unemployment Divas"

Expect to see stories about an "Unemployment Diva" that collects unemployment, drives a Cadillac and wears diamonds.

[Pharlo]

50. No, you won't, because you just described former

congresspersons such as Tom Delay. They're the ONLY 'unemployed' individuals sucking enough from the public trough to get described as 'Unemployment Divas'.

[Guilded Lilly]

48. Freedom of speech and all that...

WHY does the media even give total jerks like this a platform? Yeah yeah, rhetorical question, we all know the basic drive of most in the media is ratings. Ratings = controversy. Controversy in this case is a dense moron who is really quite removed from the *real* world he claims to know.

Are there people who remain unemployed because they want to be unemployed? Of course. Even in the most prosperous ecomony there are people who make that choice. In THIS ecomony is that even close to the overall truth??? Delay, you are a dolt to even go there.

24/7 is a lot of time to fill with blathering.

As long as we pay attention to blathering idiots, they will blather their collective butts off.

So, taking my own advice, I will quit blathering about wretches like Tom Delay!

[opihimoimoi]

52. DeLuded and his GOPiac Friends gave us BUSH..for 8 years...and we should lissen to HIM? Not a chance