Posted on 01/14/2012 3:35:08 PM PST by John Semmens
The “improving” unemployment statistics being touted by the Obama Administration have been helped along by the nearly one million people who have left the workforce. The ballyhooed 8.5% unemployment rate would’ve been 9.1% if these people weren’t so discouraged that they’ve given up on the idea of ever finding a job.
“While I would never expect the Republicans to admit this, the fact is that Democratic policies are enabling a growing segment of our society to join the ranks of the leisure class,” boasted Democratic Nation Committee Chairperson, Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (Fla). “It’s not as if everyone who has a job wants to work. I mean, having to eke out a living is an unpleasant chore for most people. Liberating a substantial number from this necessity is a major achievement of the Obama Administration.”
“Of course, the downside of not having a job is not having the wage that goes with it,” Wasserman-Schultz continued. “We’ve helped offset this with repeated extensions of unemployment compensation. If we can just eliminate the eligibility restrictions and make access to this compensation a permanent right we’ll be one step closer to the utopian dream where no one is forced to endure wage slavery just to put food on the table.”
A key task between now and November, according to Wasserman-Schultz, will be to try to convince enough additional out-of-work individuals to cease looking for jobs. “If we can get just another 6 million, or so, to drop out of the workforce we can get the unemployment statistic down below 5%,” she projected. “With numbers like that the President’s reelection and a Democratic majority in Congress would be assured.”
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A phrase that I’ve heard more than once in the past year from more than one person....
“I just hope my disability goes through before my unemployment runs out”
...on the backs of the hard working, bipartisan heroes described in the following. [Little irony and sarcasm there.]
The Fragmenting of the New Class Elites, or, Downward Mobility
http://volokh.com/2011/10/31/the-fragmenting-of-the-new-class-elites-or-downward-mobility/
social theory of the New Class
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/130648/
HA! almost got me
Never underestimate the number of folks going virtual Galt these days.
HA! almost got me
I have been on unemployment for almost a year now.
$450 a week I get. That is exactly how much it costs me to live. $950 a month rent, the rest is food, gas, vodka and cigarettes.
I am putting together a mind bending website that will just blow you away with data from wikipedia. All of Wikipedia. I have taught myself JavaScript, which was extremely difficult, because I am a database guy. I am actually creating an alternative “visual” Wikipedia. I work 10 hours a day on it. I have never worked so hard in my life. It will be out with version 1.0 in a month. You will here about it, it is so unique and innovative.
I am having the time of my life and I have never been more productive and creative.
Time is more important than money and I thank G*d everyday for this opportunity of a lifetime to pursue my dream.
Thank you my fellow citizens for this wonderful gift!
Of course, I paid into the unemployment system all of my life. So am I just getting that all back?
It’s shocking that Obama’s AP, even, hasn’t switched from using “unemployed” to using “members of the leisure class”.
I guess they’re waiting until closer to November...
What about health insurance? Just curious..
“HA! almost got me”
It really is becoming more and more difficult to tell that this stuff is satire, isn’t it?
>>What about health insurance? Just curious..<<
Never been sick a day in my life.
And if I break a leg, I have enough friends around, we will figure out how to set it and put a cast on it ourselves.
If I get cancer, I can die without the help of a doctor.
Hell, when they diagnosed Steve Jobs with cancer, he ignored his doctors and it eventually killed him. And he was the smartest guy in the world, dont cha know.
Everybody dies, it is just a matter of timing.
And because I am 100% sure that I will spend eternity in a wondrous paradise with Jesus Christ, all I am concerned about is achieving the least painless death as possible. And I dont need a prescription to get my hands on those types of drugs. I know doctors and nurses that will help.
I live in no fear!
Quit SCREWIN’ with my head!
Fear is one thing. Severe pain is another.
This is amusing but it gets at a real issue. I know people who think like this. They have absolutely no shame in sitting on their arses for a year or two and not even looking for work. I have one or two in my family. Collect whatever check they can get. Their eyes light up when someone tells them a way to get another $200 per month out of the government. These are adults too. Its no wonder this country is swirling down the crapper. We are a nation of layabouts looking for — no, demanding — a free ride on the backs of the productive.
I dont need a doctor to get my hands on diacetylmorphine. And it dosent take a rocket scientist to dose or administer it.
Be brave!
Keep some cash in reserve. A routine emergency room visit might cost 10K. To be safe, I'd have 20K.
>> A routine emergency room visit might cost 10K. <<
Fear monger! lol
And satire like this IS easy to fall for when you have people thinking like this in real life.
To what do you attribute that, the unemployment benefit, vodka, or cigarettes? ;-)
-PJ
Isn’t $450 the same amount you could only get 20 years ago?
I mazed out once for 3 months when I was 28 and thought it was incredible- my rent was only $200 at the time
It was WAY TOO TEMPTING to stay on it for the full yea but I loved my job too much
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