To the millions of unemployed free-marketeers out there.

[whyverne]

Have you noticed that the stores are full? There doesn't appear to be any shortages of anything. They say we have a glut of oil. We have millions of empty houses.

So it's time to go look in the mirror.

Say "Society does not owe me a living". And "Government cannot create jobs".

Then admit that the Free Market obviously does not need you. Feel better?

"How does it feel, to be on your own..."

[JCMach1]

1. Way too deep for our Freeper friends...

but I feel ya...

[rfranklin]

2. It was Fannie and Freddie that caused the problem...

and ACORN that stole the election.

[Lerkfish]

3. not all the unemployed are teabaggers

your lack of compassion is duly noted.

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Pull yourselves up by your own Swiss bank accounts." - Rush DraftDodger Limbaugh (R)

"Your real American, making $40 million a year in corporate propaganda payola like me, knows that what we really need is MORE TAX CUTS FOR RICH REPUBLICON TEABAGGERS. Smirk."

- Rush DraftDodger Limbaugh (R)

[stray cat]

5. To all the unemployed you mean - unemployment doesn't distinguish based on voter registrations

[baldguy]

6. But those that consistently vote Republican brought it upon themselves.

And it's a damn shame that they have to drag the rest of us down with them.

[William Z. Foster]

12. if that were only true

Life would be so much simpler and easier to understand. We have a generation of Democrats who have rolled over for the "free market" proponents. Blaming the arsonists is easy. But we cannot ignore the fact that those who claim to be fire fighters have not been responding to the urgent calls, and have too often been setting fires themselves. Now the whole town is on fire, and I for one am all through listening to the excuses of the fire fighters who have mightily failed in their duties and who are still talking about reaching accommodations with the arsonists.

[KillCapitalism]

7. Misplaced blame.

They like to blame themselves & not the system. They've bought the propaganda hook, line, and sinker that says "If you're unemployed, you're a loser, it's not the economy or greedy employers."

[JoeyT]

11. From what I can tell they refuse to blame themselves

or the system. They blame it on conspiracies, the government, and immigrants.
Should the economy ever manage to right itself and jobs begin to be created again, look for some to come forward and talk about how addictive getting money from the government was and how much harder that made it to yank their bootstraps.

[KillCapitalism]

8. Misplaced blame.

They like to blame themselves & not the system. They've bought the propaganda hook, line, and sinker that says "If you're unemployed, you're a loser, it's not the economy or greedy employers."

[Odin2005]

9. This is why Capitalism must ultimatly fail.

A glut of everything and nobody with enough money to buy it.

[formercia]

10. I guess 'just in time' doesn't work either.

It takes a long time to turn off the spigot.

[Statistical]

13. Well that is a failure on distribution of wealth not necessarily capitalism.

US GDP has increased almost 50% in last decade.

http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=ny_gdp_mktp_cd&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=graph+of+US+GDP

So a massive amount of wealth is being produced in the US. The problem is the playing field has been made even more uneven so rather than all that productivity gains being shared (20% to poor, 60% to middle class, 30% to wealthy, 10% to insanely rich) it has been all one sided. (-10% to poor, 0% to middle class, 20% to wealthy, 80% to insanely rich).

Progressive taxation is important for two reasons:
1) places burden on those who have benefited the most
2) puts less emphasis for a company to give insane compensation to the 0.00000000001%.

I mean who cares if you increase a guys compensation from $10 million to $100 million if that increase is taxed at 80%. It simply means the company volunteered to give another $60 million to the govt in taxes (indirectly through CEO income tax).

[marmar]

14. Awesome......

nt