Juan Williams told Fox News' Megyn Kelly that extended unemployment benefits are harmful to peoples'

[a kennedy]

work ethic and basic values.....

The two were speaking about the fight over the extension of the benefits on Thursday's "America Live." Kelly told Williams that a man she knows is staying on unemployment because his jobless benefits bring him more money than a potential job.

"To me it's crazy because the longer that person is unemployed the more difficult it is then for them to get a job," Williams said. He continued:

"Because employers, potential employers, will look and see that gee, they've been out forever, it doesn't make sense. And I think that's partly playing in to this cycle. And at some point then it becomes a matter of you lose your work ethic, your values are impacted, you know, getting up, showing up, dressing well, all that good stuff. So I don't know that that's smart.


"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/02/juan-williams-unemployment-benefits_n_791251.html

[Demeter]

1. What about the WPA, then, Juan?

What a wanker.

[texshelters]

7. Uh oh, you are using the weapon of logic

Williams and his ilk are impervious to logic.

Anyone want to defend his firing now? Anyone?

Peace,
Tex Shelters
http://texshelters.wordpress.com

[Demeter]

32. Not Me

I wanted to contribute to NPR for the first time in a long, long while, to encourage them to keep spring cleaning...

[hlthe2b]

2. He's such a useful sociopathic sellout....

I'm sure Faux has searched high and low for his clone.

[TEXASYANKEE]

3. Megyn Kelly is an idiot.

And probably a liar, to boot. She said this friend of hers makes $400/week, and doesn't look for a job at Starbucks because he couldn't make "that kind" of money at Starbucks. Somehow I do not believe it. I think she's making it up.

[CTyankee]

8. They're ALL making sh*t up. Scarborough is doing it (he calls it "anecdotal" evidence

that people aren't laying bricks or some such nonsense because of Unemployment Insurance. "I have friends who tell me they can't hire people to do XYZ..."

[Angry Dragon]

10. Isn't he the guy that killed that woman in his office??

and skated because he made up a fake alibi and hired a corrupt ME??

[AndrewP]

11. Yep. Dead Intern Joe.

[11 Bravo]

12. If, Heaven forbid, Megyn Kelly were to have a close encounter with a frying pan ...

it might perhaps become clear to her that she is not employed as a result of her intellectual heft.

[Jim__]

4. Yea, and lack of extended unemployment benefits is harmful to people's eating habits. - n/t

[Stargazer99]

5. What is pathetic is that employment pays less than

unemployment....and people do not question that state of affairs...why employers pay less than unemployment. But, hell no, lets not question that! No wonder the haves do not want the peasants educated, they might revolt

[chelsea0011]

6. It's nice these two have jobs.

[texshelters]

9. Williams and the self made assholes don't understand facts

1. Unemployment payments boost the economy.

2. They save jobs, something we are in desparate need of.

3. They are short term investments in our nation.

Oh, and by the way, they are the human "Christian" thing to do.

I wish I could wave a wand and these people could be homeless for one week. Even then, they wouldn't learn any compassion.

Yeah, people want to be unemployed, sure. What jobs, where?

Peace,
Tex Shelters
http://texshelters.wordpress.com

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. Who Cares What That Tomming Fool Thinks Or Says

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[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. Who Cares What That Tomming Fool Thinks Or Says

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[KamaAina]

15. I assume he took Amtrak to get to Faux

can't have him flying these days, what with all them muzzies around and about. It might scare him, y'know. :sarcasm:

[ljm2002]

16. OMG what an ass!

Does he truly think that being cut off from unemployment benefits will make people find jobs quicker? On what planet? Given that there are few jobs to be had in the first place, what it really means is that more and more people will be forced out of their homes and into destitution.

I hope that Juan Williams loses his money, loses his job and ends up having to sleep on the streets. I am dead serious: let him experience that which he advocates for others.

[prolesunited]

19. Yep, the simple fact is that there are NOT enough new jobs

to absorb millions of people kicked off unemployment -- even if they did take minimum wage, which isn't even enough to support one adult. Why aren't the reporters asking where these people will find work? Ending unemployment doesn't end the problem.

[Yavin4]

17. So Begins the Grand Divergence Between the Propaganda and the Reality

Here's where the conservative memes will start to fray. Right wing propaganda bullshit is not in synch with reality.

[thecrow]

18. It's a shame we 99ers didn't all get a Faux Snooze job

the minute we were laid off.

I've been unemployed since 12/2008 and my employer would like to have me back at work
but he can't afford it yet. I am in a very niche job and it's all I've done for
the last 37 years. I bet others are in this same boat.

I would like nothing better than to get up, show up and "dress well" or....eat!
Stupid nasty man.

[yodermon]

20. When the economy re-tanks due to unemployment benefits running out

they will blame the Unemployed.

[Karenina]

21. Sick shit from a sick puppy. n/t

[steve2470]

22. He's an idiot and has zero empathy, **** him nt

[burnsei sensei]

23. Yeah right.

Quote:
The two were speaking about the fight over the extension of the benefits on Thursday's "America Live." Kelly told Williams that a man she knows is staying on unemployment because his jobless benefits bring him more money than a potential job.
end quote.

And I'll take that with Lot's Wife, thank you very much.

[Pacifist Patriot]

25. Indeed

The hypertension is killing me.

[Shandris]

28. Actually it's quite possible.

An individual with a decent salaried job, say...36k or so per year, could have a potential part-time job at McDonald's. Of course, then there is the cost of paying the babysitter for some, the deduction of time to actually look for a REAL job, the fact that finding 2 part-time jobs to actually make the equivalent of a real job is nigh impossible, and so forth. However, the only thing the repukes are going to see is OMG SHE PASSED UP A JOB FOR UNEMPLOYMENT SEE THIS IS WHAT WE WERE SAYING IT MADE HER LAZY!

You have to be careful when simply saying things like 'it doesnt happen', because they'll hit you with that shit EVERY TIME. Remember, this is the same group of people who think 'nuance' is for losers.

[Pacifist Patriot]

24. 99.99999% certain....

Kelly is lying through her teeth. I call total bullshit on that comment.

[guitar man]

26. Well then

If they want to play it that way, the first thing to do is make this practice illegal.

Job Seekers Screwed As Businesses Refuse To Hire The Unemployed


http://www.businessinsider.com/job-seekers-screwed-as-businesses-refuse-to-hire-the-unemployed-2009-6

And while we are on the subject of "work ethic and basic values", how about that Sarah Palin? Couldn't finish a term as governor of Alaska and hasn't done a lick of work since...that's a real good example she's setting there. :eyes:

My "work ethic" is just fine. I'm a working SOB, have been all my life. My "work ethic" is, pay me enough and I'll work my ass off, but don't expect to get something for nothing. It's high time that shit came to an end in this country. :grr:

[Lucinda]

27. That's because there ARE no good jobs.

These guys are sooooooo out of touch.

[NICO9000]

29. As Cee Lo Green sez...

"FUCK YOU AND FUCK HER TOO!!!"

I always thought Williams was a RW tool posing (badly) as a so-called moderate. Not a surprise at all that Fux scooped him up immediately.

[ProudDad]

30. Right, Juan

so starvation or suicide is the cure for unemployment when THERE ARE NO JOBS!!!

What a dipstick...

Even National Propaganda Radio dropped this idiot like a hot rock...only faux-noise would have him now...

[ProudDad]

31. I have mounted a campaign to REMOVE the term "lost a job" from

our vocabulary...

With EXTREMELY RARE exceptions, people's jobs are TAKEN FROM THEM by their employers...

The term "lost her/his job" is designed to blame the victim instead of the vampire capitalist who fucked the worker over by TAKING AWAY THEIR LIVELIHOOD...

Next lesson: Theft of the Commons...