Tom DeLay: Americans Are Unemployed Because They Prefer It
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has praised the actions of Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY), who held up a month-long extension of unemployment benefits with procedural tactics [http://www.shortnews.com/... reported].
Asked whether it was a bad idea to take a stand over unpaid spending in the case of unemployment as opposed to, for example, President Bush´s $720 billion prescription drug plan, DeLay said the PR was handled poorly.
DeLay said unemployment extensions are bad policy, especially "now that Obama is spending monies that we don´t have." He agreed with a reporter´s question that "People are unemployed because they want to be," saying, "Well, it´s the truth."
For most people who lost high paying jobs, you make more on unemployment then working at a lower paying job. They choose not to work, and get paid more money for it. Sad but true.
Stupid generalizations like that is why Im glad DeLay is unemployed, Id rather be working. In the last six months unemployment hasnt payed one dime into my 401k
... this notion of people staying on unemployment rather than looking for work. The last time I was on unemployment, I had to prove I was looking every week in order to keep getting checks.
That said, I did have a few marathon Grand Theft Auto: Vice City sessions too. It helped get my mind off the trauma of being laid off.
c´mon that headline and comment had nothing to do with what the interview was about. Bunning stood firm on that bill because it was loaded with pork attached to unemployment benefits. It makes no sense to go into MORE debt because it only loses MORE jobs. Try going back to civics 101.
sending out dozens of resumes a week and getting about two calls a month. Having to dumb down your resume because you feel that it would help you land a job is really good for your ego. Getting two callbacks in a month I sent out a hundred resumes makes me really happy. Having every dollar i get from unemployment spoken for before I even deposit the check is no big deal. Being a 34 year college graduate without a job is fun, I mean I can go out and drink every day, go on trips around the world, go on countless dates with the hottest woman as I please, oh wait it takes money to do those things, oh well it sure does sound like fun tho.
You all have got to be kidding me. Tom DeLay is absolutely correct on this on the generalization. Sure, not everyone prefers it, but in general most do.
Those who think one can´t pay bill being laid off. Are you kidding? Where I´m at people can make up to $545 a week on unemployment. If you can´t pay for bills you were living above your mental ability anyway.
I work, but by golly if I´m laid off, its a vacation and I can certainly pay all of my bills and still save money.
I find it hard to believe that any member of Congress would think that we unemployed workers WANT UI payments more than we want work! I have worked for close to 40 years and got layed off! Without a job and UI, I´d lose everthing! And this short extensions make no sense! Vote to extend UI...vote for jobs...and KILL THAT STUPID OBAMACARE CRAP!
One can tell the Employment Security Commission ONLINE that they sent in resumes to several business every week without proof. Are you kidding me? These folks don´t need to search to find a job to keep their unemployment benefits. They can log in once a week from the Bahamas and still get their money in the bank.
But it isn´t the unemployment itself. It is the way it is handled. Mostly it is handled this way cause most people are too stupid to understand that money generally doesn´t come from thin air.
Unemployment benefits are collected from employers. It is put in a fund, gains interest and can be used as a tool for investment - of course this is not documented. Most economists believe that it directly comes from the employee as most employers take it into consideration when hiring to determine the salary of the employee. That is, employers that have a bad unemployment scores pay more to unemployment insurance and therefore almost always offer lower salaries than others in the industry or provide lower job security.
Anyway, currently it´s a forced insurance which is similar to what the republicans want for government insurance.
Again, the problem is that each individual should have an account or at least have access to their invested portion - but they don´t. If it was, then the investment can be used as needed until dry. Or even better, it can be one large interest earning account that then is tracked by individual investment. For every penny that is invested, interest is earned on the whole, but each individual can then claim their portion invested plus their portion of interest earned. This is completely fair, but it is not as profitable as the insurance model which makes a lot of money for somebody but not those that truly contribute. Again, another capitalist system disguised as socialist benefit. In reality it is both: socialist to those that don´t want to work, and capitalist to those that want to use the money without having to compete in the market for the service (a government supported private monopoly)
Again, it´s what the final conclusion of the healthcare effort will be.
It is infuriating when people react to a headline whenost likely the editor didn´t even see the whiole interview. Tom DeLay was talking about a bigger issue and that comment was taken out of context. Clearly people who are on inemploent benefits are looking for jobs and it´s hard to find them right now. Try a new career, be creative. This is not the economy we had before and with Obama´s policies we may never see the ideal job again.
First time poster, but I have A LOT of experience with unemployed people. While I do agree some wish they were out there working and contributing, I do see a lot of people abusing it. Working under the table. Or.. the best, they work in more than one state and can collect in any, so they fly out in groups for the best state rates. I see it all the time.. One state even has a company that will get you leads and signatures stating you´ve been looking for work.. in order to extend out unemployment.
Again, no offense, but I´m at the end of the gravy train that is unemployment for most, and feel for those that have the real desire to work.
And what is my "agenda"... sounds like "pundit" talk. Can you use the word "cronies" too... that would be exciting.
What does my nic mean to you? If you wanna know, i´ll explain. But you may not understand ... as i won´t use "political" gibberish and may be "spouting" higher thinking beyond your capacity.
when i had no job(after working since i was 14), i was given a whole $19 per week from the government. At tax time my $19 was paid back to the government(I was 22 at the time).
I would like to see payroll tax accumulated and calculated by the government on a weekly basis, for instance if i am going to recieve a projected $10,000 in the form of a tax refund in say 6 months how about giving me some of may tax money now in the form of benefits so i don´t have to live out of my money box.
When there are jobs and people are not working and collecting dole instead then Tom Delay will have a leg to stand on.
But when his party had just finished sending the country into one of the worst spirals in history, then Tom Delay should be apologizing and explaining how it won´t happen again.
Tom Delay is a kunt and you know this is the Truth.
I´ve been unemployed for round 3 months now while at uni, and everyone who gives me shit about how easy it is to find a job, and how I´m just not looking hard enough, have all never been seriously unemployed. Looking for work is incredibly depressing, not that there is anything that can be done about it, it´s just the nature of the game.
There might be some people who like being unemployed, but i assure you, they are a minority.
but here in the UK there are a lot of people who are more than happy to cheat the benefits system, having more and more kids to get more money rather than going out and earning for themselves. Plenty of people are unemployed by choice here, they get a house paid for by the council, they don´t have to pay council tax, they sit around watching TV thinking that everyone else owes them a living when they can´t be bothered to get off their lazy arses and get a job. Many people in this country will complain about immigrants "coming over here and taking our jobs" but those who complain are often completely unqualified and unskilled yet still think they are too good to perform menial jobs like cleaning, shelf-stacking etc. If you are so bloody good, prove it, if not, let the foreigners come over here and do the jobs, someone has to do it!
Quite frankly, I don´t know why the government let them have it so easy. They get paid in cash - why not give them foodstamps instead? They are meant to be looking for a job, yet they make no attempt at doing anything of the sort - why aren´t their benefits reduced after a certain time period? If you see no point in getting a job or an education, then maybe you have it too easy - cut their benefits by a certain percentage every few months and see how many of them decide that working might actually be beneficial!
why not? after all obama wanted a redistrubution of wealth! that is what it is all about! obama wanted to create a walfare state and he has done so along with congress allowing industry to go abroad where over seas workers do what americans used to do. well, folks, here is teh change you voted for. a socialist walfare state, enjoy!
I´m wondering how quick he will want to go and find a job once he´s unemployed. Calling your constituents lazy ne´er-do-wells isn´t a really good way to get re-elected. Any bets on how long?
Of course he´s right though. If I had a source of income besides my business that didn´t require any work at all, damned straight I´d be taking advantage of it.
You can only get unemployment if you had a job and lost it. Sometimes you still can´t get unemployment, if your company can prove it was justified in firing you, or that you left by your own choice.
If you do get unemployment, you still have to prove to the unemployment office that you´re looking for work every week.
You can´t just decide, "You know, I´m sick of working, and I could probably make it on 60 percent of what I´m earning right now (that´s what unemployment pays). I´m just going to quit."
Nope -- if you quit, you don´t get unemployment. Sorry, them´s the rules.
I meant that he´s right that most Americans are lazy. I don´t know many people who would continue to go to work each day if it weren´t for the paycheck, so I guess you could say that the pay is the only reason that they´re there. They´re not working because they enjoy it.
