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I tell you. Highlighting John Boehner’s recent American Enterprise Institute speech blaming joblessness on people who would “rather sit around” than find work, Krugman notes that Boehner’s sneering condescension is emblematic of the GOP’s long-standing contempt for Americans out of work. That attitude – “impervious to logic and evidence,” Krugman writes — explains the right’s campaign to dismantle the social safety net.
But what’s particularly strange about Boehner and the right’s continued laziness meme, Krugman observes, is that “the blame-the-victim crowd has gotten everything it wanted: benefits, especially for the long-term unemployed, have been slashed or eliminated.” Boehner might have us believe that the jobless are welfare bums, but as Krugman points out, not only were they not bums in the first place, but there’s largely no welfare for them to collect, either.
Unemployment and food stamps are the biggest drivers of the Obama/Krugman economy
'But what’s particularly strange about Boehner and the right’s continued laziness meme, Krugman observes, is that “the blame-the-victim crowd has gotten everything it wanted: benefits, especially for the long-term unemployed, have been slashed or eliminated.”'
Most on the right are impervious to logic, evidence, and facts.
link?....Proves that the Repubs endorse the "let 'em die" meme like @rdean mentioned.
link?Repubs w/ life-long pensions like Boehner (R) gleefully kick people while they're down
Krugman is a national treasure
Paul Krugman dismantles Boehner 8217 s callous attack on the unemployed - Salon.com
Highlighting John Boehner’s recent American Enterprise Institute speech blaming joblessness on people who would “rather sit around” than find work, Krugman notes that Boehner’s sneering condescension is emblematic of the GOP’s long-standing contempt for Americans out of work. That attitude – “impervious to logic and evidence,” Krugman writes — explains the right’s campaign to dismantle the social safety net.
But what’s particularly strange about Boehner and the right’s continued laziness meme, Krugman observes, is that “the blame-the-victim crowd has gotten everything it wanted: benefits, especially for the long-term unemployed, have been slashed or eliminated.” Boehner might have us believe that the jobless are welfare bums, but as Krugman points out, not only were they not bums in the first place, but there’s largely no welfare for them to collect, either.
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thats what you get for thinking......Sometimes I think Krugman is too easy on the Republicans
Krugman is the loon who said 911 was good for the economy and we should gear up for a war against space invadersSometimes I think Krugman is too easy on the Republicans
Unemployment and food stamps are the biggest drivers of the Obama/Krugman economy
No, it's the only driver.
No one on the right likes Boehner either. He should feel sorry for people trying to find work in an Obama economy, instead he just ignores it and calls people lazy.
I wish a real conservative would climb out of the ooz and slime of the GOP and actually make a case against the economic/political direction of this country.
EXACTLY!!! Their plank is worn-out, all two parts of it lolUnemployment and food stamps are the biggest drivers of the Obama/Krugman economy
No, it's the only driver.
No one on the right likes Boehner either. He should feel sorry for people trying to find work in an Obama economy, instead he just ignores it and calls people lazy.
I wish a real conservative would climb out of the ooz and slime of the GOP and actually make a case against the economic/political direction of this country.
The problem is, if the GOP did that, they'd have to admit that the policies they support to make the rich richer have no benefit to the vast majority of Americans.
"Hey, look, those gay people are getting food stamps!!!!"
