Krugman Rips Apart Republican House Speaker

[Dana7360]

Krugman is a national treasure I tell you.

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.

Discuss...

boehner has a lot of nerve saying the unemployed are lazy.

How many days has the House of Reps been working this year? Isn't it around less than 100 days?

This has got to be the most laziest congress in history. They don't even bother to show up and do the people's work.

They spend days whining about isis and it's going to kill us all but when they have a chance to do something about it, they leave town and don't work.

These people are being paid nearly 200 thousand dollars a year to work less than one third of the year.

Republicans have to be the most laziest people in our nation. They want the money but don't want to do the work.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Krugman is a national treasure I tell you.

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.

Discuss...

boehner has a lot of nerve saying the unemployed are lazy.

How many days has the House of Reps been working this year? Isn't it around less than 100 days?

This has got to be the most laziest congress in history. They don't even bother to show up and do the people's work.

They spend days whining about isis and it's going to kill us all but when they have a chance to do something about it, they leave town and don't work.

These people are being paid nearly 200 thousand dollars a year to work less than one third of the year.

Republicans have to be the most laziest people in our nation. They want the money but don't want to do the work.

your whole thing is about CONGRESS until your last sentence.....then all of a sudden Democrats are not a part of it.....hey Dana?.....have the Democrats worked more days than the Republicans?.....are they a part of the group you are talking about above?.....geezus....talk about being a fucking Hack......

 

[Dot Com]

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[TakeAStepBack]

Krugman...

People still listen to him?

 

[Dot Com]

ummm.....yes. Anything to say about Boehner's (R) zany comment?

 

[TakeAStepBack]

I don't give a shit about Boehner's comment, dullard. Just like I thought no one with any intelligence would continue to listen to "Deathstar" Krugman. I could still be right about that.

 

[BullKurtz]

Krugman has done more than any other human (if you consider queer Jew communists human) to destroy the New York Times. For that I salute his smelly ruined ass.

 

[Dot Com]

anything to add on-topic there son?

 

[LoneLaugher]

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.

Here's your chance! What's the correct path?

 

[Dana7360]

Krugman is a national treasure I tell you.

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.

Discuss...

boehner has a lot of nerve saying the unemployed are lazy.

How many days has the House of Reps been working this year? Isn't it around less than 100 days?

This has got to be the most laziest congress in history. They don't even bother to show up and do the people's work.

They spend days whining about isis and it's going to kill us all but when they have a chance to do something about it, they leave town and don't work.

These people are being paid nearly 200 thousand dollars a year to work less than one third of the year.

Republicans have to be the most laziest people in our nation. They want the money but don't want to do the work.

your whole thing is about CONGRESS until your last sentence.....then all of a sudden Democrats are not a part of it.....hey Dana?.....have the Democrats worked more days than the Republicans?.....are they a part of the group you are talking about above?.....geezus....talk about being a fucking Hack......

The democrats work as many days as the republicans but the democrats aren't the ones who set the days to work. That's boehner's job.

I will say this, when Nancy Pelosi became speaker of the house, she increased the work days. They worked around 140 days a year. When boehner became speaker he decreased it down to under 120 days a year and they're probably not even working that many days.

 

[Oldstyle]

Krugman is a national treasure I tell you.

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.

Discuss...

Paul Krugman? The name sounds familiar...but I just can't quite place it. Wasn't he the liberal economist who championed Keynesian economic policy back before that theory cratered under the stewardship of Larry Summers? Is that the guy you're speaking of?

 

[Harry Dresden]

All thread bumps appreciated Even by persons who I have on ignore

why are you so scared of me Dottie?....i cant hurt you.....are you really as much of a pussy as the talk around here says you are?.....

 

[MaxGrit]

Krugman?

Yeah everyone should pay heed to that lefty loon.

Doubt he has the know how to do anything but bloviate on Salon.

Salon?? Gotta take anything coming out of that rag to the bank. LMAO

yep Salon is a troll site

 

[JoeB131]

here's a bit of perspective I'll add as a guy who has a side job writing resumes and helping people find jobs.

The underlying problem is that if you have been unemployed for a period of time, employers don't want to touch you. They'll happily filch another company's employees, but won't touch someone who hasn't been working for a while.

So extending unemployment benefits, while compassionate, is not solving the problem. We need something to soak up the excess unemployed. Something like FDR's WPA or NRA or CCC.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Proves that the Repubs endorse the "let 'em die" meme like @rdean mentioned.

It's more a matter of failed rightwing dogma, the fallacy of 'disincentives,' in this case unemployment compensation.


It also illustrates the ignorance of most conservatives, in many cases willful, where job searches are a condition of on-going eligibility for UCB, one just can't 'sit around' and 'do nothing.'

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

here's a bit of perspective I'll add as a guy who has a side job writing resumes and helping people find jobs.

The underlying problem is that if you have been unemployed for a period of time, employers don't want to touch you. They'll happily filch another company's employees, but won't touch someone who hasn't been working for a while.

So extending unemployment benefits, while compassionate, is not solving the problem. We need something to soak up the excess unemployed. Something like FDR's WPA or NRA or CCC.

These programs do exist, such as TANF, WIA, SNAP E&T, and TAA – the problem is funding for these programs is spotty and inconsistent, eligibility requirements keep changing because they're administered by regional workforce boards, and they're poorly advertised to job seekers.

 

[Dot Com]

Boehner (R) is just delivering to his constituents what they thrive upon fear & hate.

 

[Wildman]

'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.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
most on the left do all the lying, obfuscating, dodging, lying, equivocate, waffle, lying, tergiversate, did i mention lying ?

and.., they all hate America and our Military Heros

 

[Oldstyle]

here's a bit of perspective I'll add as a guy who has a side job writing resumes and helping people find jobs.

The underlying problem is that if you have been unemployed for a period of time, employers don't want to touch you. They'll happily filch another company's employees, but won't touch someone who hasn't been working for a while.

So extending unemployment benefits, while compassionate, is not solving the problem. We need something to soak up the excess unemployed. Something like FDR's WPA or NRA or CCC.

The "underlying problem" is you Progressives don't have a fucking clue how to create jobs or stimulate the economy! Here's a bit of "perspective" for you, Joey...those unemployed people wouldn't BE unemployed if we had a President who grasped basic economic concepts. Barack Obama has overseen the worst recovery from a recession SINCE FDR and he's just been going through the motions since his "stimulus" failed four YEARS ago!

 

[JoeB131]

The "underlying problem" is you Progressives don't have a fucking clue how to create jobs or stimulate the economy! Here's a bit of "perspective" for you, Joey...those unemployed people wouldn't BE unemployed if we had a President who grasped basic economic concepts. Barack Obama has overseen the worst recovery from a recession SINCE FDR and he's just been going through the motions since his "stimulus" failed four YEARS ago!

Well, if he got the stimulus that he asked for and not the one that was about a third tax cuts (which are always fucking useless) maybe that would have stimulated jobs.

Of course, when you sign free trade treaties that make it easy to send the jobs to third world shitholes, and then you wonder why no one has a job.

Oh, by the way. After 2008, your side doesn't get to argue it knows how to create jobs.