DeLay: People are unemployed because they want to be

[kpete]

DeLay: People are unemployed because they want to be

By David Edwards and Gavin Dahl
Sunday, March 7th, 2010 -- 12:50 pm

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"There is an argument to be made that these extensions, the unemployment benefits, keep people from going and finding jobs," he told CNN's Candy Crowley Sunday.

"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," he argued.

"People are unemployed because they want to be? " asked Crowley.
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"Well, it is the truth. And people in the real world know it," said DeLay.

more:
http://rawstory.com/2010/03/delay-unemployment-benefits/

[Odin2005]

1. Oh, FUCK YOU, Tom!

[Zoeisright]

2. Delay is a fucking piece of dog shit.

I hate repukes more every day.

[deminks]

3. Why is this thug not in jail?

Instead, the MEdia gives him air time for his hate.

[eleny]

4. And you're out of Congress because you're a felon

[undeterred]

5. A lot of people think this.

But its only true for a few people. It isn't that much money, and you have to pay taxes on it.

If someone thinks they are financially secure and has a working spouse they may not be as urgent about getting a job. I know someone whose brother was laid off and all he did was sit around on his ass and collect unemployment for a year. He was expecting his company to take him back when things got better, which they didn't. He was expecting his wife not to lose her job, but she did.

Having the big gap on your resume does not look good, and it makes it harder to find a job that pays as well as the one you lost.

So, there are a few people who do this, but its foolish. On the other hand, there are people who keep on trying to get another job for a couple of years after being laid off and they just can't find one.

[Cleita]

6. Isn't he unemployed? Does that mean he wants to be?

Where is he working these days when he's not making TeeVee appearances? Apparently, he free lances giving speeches and other venues like "Dancing with the Stars". Apparently, there isn't even a cultish RW think tank who has offered him a job. He does have a website: http://www.tomdelay.com/meet-tom/

As for Candy Crowley, she should be unemployed too for being a crappy journalist.

[tabatha]

7. Does he really think people will fall for that nonsense?

People are asking companies to lay them off?

Bat shit crazy.

[endless october]

8. what a fucking asshole.

i looked for a job for nine months, and i sure didn't "want" to be unemployed.

i was very lucky to find something recently. i hope everyone else does, as well. stay strong, and don't let shitheads like this get you down.

[DiverDave]

9. I hate being able to SAVE

some money, I love that I cant get my kids things they want.
My wife has been looking for work for over a year.
So, yeah, I just love that my wife is unemployed.
So, I gotta call that asshole an asshole.

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

10. we can't all be on dancing with the stares

this man should be in prison

[Ardent15]

11. Thomas Frank: "DeLay is a Scoundrel"

That's putting it very, very lightly.

[laughingliberal]

12. And Duhlay is a scumbag because he wants to be. nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. So many heavy objects falling at full speed every day. Yet they never hit the right targets. nt

[On the Road]

14. This Would Have Been a More Reasonable Position in 1999

Now, he just sounds like Henry Ford during the Great Depression.

[laylah]

15. WHY is this asshole

still walking the streets? :mad:

[dysfunctional press]

16. he is going to regret saying that, if he ever plans to run for potus, as has been suggested.

[fascisthunter]

17. Delay should be dragged out of his comfy abode by a crowd of homeless people

tarred and feathered

[saracat]

18. So Delay was kicked out of congress because he 'wanted' to be as well?

Guess thats why he was a felon!

[Catshrink]

19. People get cancer because they want to be sick.

Makes as much sense.

[Lint Head]

20. Delay is a criminal cause he wants to be.

[marmar]

21. "people in the real world know it"

And what real world would that be, Mr. Moat Monster?



Why does this toad still get a forum on "legitimate" media operations like CNN?

[trusty elf]

22. Loathsome creature

scurry back under the rock from whence you came!