Republicans Calls People On Long-Term Unemployment as Hobos

[discocrisco01]

Republican Mike Heller is a mean man. From the Las Vegas Sun

Washington — Republican Rep. Dean Heller is emerging as Nevada’s newest frank-talking politician — one in a line of elected officials who speak their mind, political correctness be damned.

Consider his remarks last weekend at the Elko Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner when he wondered aloud if extending unemployment benefits is keeping people from finding work.

“Is the government now creating hobos?” Heller said, according to the Elko Daily Free Press.

Nevada, mind you, is a state with a 13 percent jobless rate.

It was not the first time that the congressman’s impolitic remarks pingponged around the blogosphere.

and there is more

"It’s a common view in Republican circles that the longer unemployed people receive unemployment checks, the longer they stay out of work.

“Benefits subsidize unemployment,” wrote James Sherk in a January memo for the conservative Heritage Foundation. “They reduce the need to search for new work and to make difficult choices — such as moving or switching industries — to begin a new job.”

Unemployment insurance provides for up to two years of benefits.

Maurice Emsellem, co-director of policy at the National Employment Law Project, said although it is true that studies show people remain out of work up to two weeks longer while on unemployment checks, that extra time helps them secure a better job — one with insurance, for example — rather than settle for the first thing that comes along."

At the end of the day, these guys state that you cannot find a job became a capitalist yourself. Start your own business. Become dependent on yourself and not others.

What happens if you have no funds and the banks do not provide investment capital to start a business? What happends if you cannot get the funding? Than, I am going to state that if subject condition exists than a social safety net is required. He should be made to answer this charge.

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[tonysam]

1. His name is DEAN Heller

He's another dumb shit Nevada Republican, along with John Ensign and Jim Gibbons.

These dumb asses offer the same horseshit--move or start businesses--which are worthless pieces of advice when people have few funds to move or start businesses. The GOP LOVES high unemployment because these desperate people will take any piece of shit out there.

But this recession--depression--is much different than previously. People just simply can't find work.

[undeterred]

2. Let them eat cake.

[KingFlorez]

3. As if starting a business now is easy

The banks aren't about to give any credit to any regular person, let alone at fair rate.

[tonysam]

4. If nobody is buying anything,

then what's the point of starting one's own business?

[CTyankee]

6. You are exactly right. My husband is a former city employee who was laid off.

He has had to literally create his own next job thru stimulus funding based on his knowledge of certain housing issues. But not everybody has that advantage. It's great to have an incentive to be creative. But I think most people would rather be gainfully (and creatively) employed than not employed.

In this economy, I'm sure even people with skills such as plumbing, painting and carpentry are hurting. A lot of folks are DIY nowadays. For a lot of people, they might as well be buggy whip makers...

[KingFlorez]

9. Right, that's the other downside

A person would end up losing money instead of making it.

[lib2DaBone]

5. .the Politicians have all the money they need..

.. the Corporations have all the money they need...

...the Bankers have all the money they need...

Thus.. every thing is A-OK!

What don't you get?

[Walk away]

7. I just spoke to a friend of mine today who has been on unemployment for a year.

She is desperate and about to lose her home. The bank has been holding off for almost a year and taking partial payments but without a job they won't hold out any longer. Unemployment doesn't come close to paying a mortgage around here and the job market sucks. It doesn't matter how smart or talented you are, if you are fifty or over there in no job for you.

She has being interviewing and retraining herself for twelve months. I have to admire her for being so committed to it when she gets shot down constantly.

So fuck every republican. I hope it happens to them...I hope they lose their businesses and jobs and houses and learn what empathy is.

[malletgirl02]

8. Tone of the article

Did anyone notice the tone of the article, is it just me or is it almost praising this asshole?

[prolesunited]

10. People are unemployed

because there are no f'n jobs.

Even teaching, city and state jobs -- which never made you rich but were something you could count on -- are in very short supply.

I wish these people were subjected to the reality we live every day.

Family values party, my ass. Their policies are uprooting families and ripping them apart.

[Beartracks]

11. Pulling oneself up by bootstraps requires... boots.

:wtf: is wrong with some people?

[leeroysphitz]

12. I would never call people as hobos. n/t