How do you not know? People aren't going down there in droves, there's actually jobs available there.
Yes, and like I said, people actually have certain things they want from a job. Are you actually this much of an idiot that you think people should just choose any job that's around? There are plenty of contracting jobs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Guess people should just move to the Middle East because there are jobs there.
And don't give me some jive about ambitious 25 year old fiannce major Scott whose been unemployed since he graduated in 2009 and how he'd totally go down and clean up New Orleans if it weren't for the fact some evil Mexicans stole the job opportunities which is what you're inferring.
No one gave you any "jive", you imbecile. Why would a finance major go do work in something besides his career if he doesn't have to? What exactly do you do for a living? Are you employed? Sounds like you aren't. Tell you what, move out of Mom and Dad's and get some real life experience before you go around talking sh*t on people who actually make their own living.
But technically he is mooching if he's been collecting unemployment, something you conservatives were dead-set against extending and only allowed Obama to pass when he decided to stop railing against ending tax-cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
How do you know he's mooching? Once again, you are stereotyping. You're making up this scenario in which every white collar person who's unemployed is sitting on their a*ses collecting unemployment while being super picky about their next job. I doubt you even know any of these people, or if you do, it's small enough to count on one hand. In fact, in general you consistently talk out of your a*s. Shut up and get a job yourself, you loser. You don't even know how unemployment benefits work.
Without unemployment, unemployed Republicans AND Democrats would have to bite the bullet and start flipping burgers for $8/hr or in many states even less.
OR they would use their savings, borrow money from friends/relatives, move in to a cheaper living space, etc.... Yeah, figures you wouldn't think of that. You're a small-minded, sheltered douche.
Who knows, working in the kitchen or a dish room for a busy restaurant like an undocumented Brazilian might teach them something about the hard work they believe the working-class doesn't do...
Yup, white collar people are all just a bunch of stuck-up snobs who think the "working class" (which they apparently aren't and have never been a part of since they've never held a job) are just a bunch of slack bums....
If you're willing to concede these people do work hard for their menial wages, maybe you should pull your tongue out of the rich's ass for a minute and appreciate them more, no?
Who said I don't appreciate them? Yes, it's very evident you have this imbecilic notion that anyone who's not out there making sh*t pay while toiling in hard manual labor sticks their noses up at the lower class, blue collar world. There's where you make it evident you are a high-order idiot. I've done hard work, a*shole, but obviously you haven't, and obviously you don't make any money to be proud of. Besides, I don't see you picking up a shovel. Why don't you go do that, hypocrite.
I spent nearly a year working 55 hours a week and doing any odd jobs on the side as well, working at a pizza parlor and a bakery, some days I'd start 4 AM at the bakery and work the pizza parlor until 10. Why? Because I needed money and the job I thought I had lined up fell through because the company downsized in the wake of the financial crisis.
No one's going to cry because a d*ckhead like you had to actually work. Hey, why don't you go move to New Orleans and help out those "evil" Mexicans you like to bring up so often?
So I spent a year working while job searching and trying to expand my opportunities by getting an educator's license and even trying to get a managerial position in the bakery so I'd at least have salary and benefits for awhile.
Oh, so you mean you took on a low-skill/-qualifications job while you went to school? (clap clap) Congratulations, you are part of millions of college kids who do the same exact thing.
Point is I understand how much these jobs are spirit-crushing and suck, I got out as soon as I could.
No, I think the real point is you're just bitter you had to work a sh*t job while others didn't. I've been down the unemployment route and tried to get any job I could. However, never did I sit there and complain about others who weren't stuck in the same boat as me, nor did I make up the absurd stereotype that those who make a decent living or have qualifications for a high-end job were "p*ssies" because they didn't and wouldn't do what I had to do. You're just a crybaby who thinks he's had a hard life. Trust me, no one cares.
I balanced out doing what I had to do to find a better job with working so the idea that the unemployed can't at least get a job for a few hundred extra bucks in their pocket a week before allowing themselves to fall into debt with bills and such is beyond me.
This has been addressed numerous times already; you're just too stubborn to pull your head out of the sand -- or really, out of your a*s.
I never said anything of the sort.
Yeah, you did. You continually bring up a single party as doing such and such, or a single political group (i.e. liberals/progressives and conservatives). All the political problems in modern society are caused by both, so to bring up one or the other like you have been doing is pointless, and indicates you have fallen for the party myth.
I just disagree with your assertion that because Democrats voted to give Bush the ability to invade Iraq or supported the war, that LIBERALS all did.
I didn't say they ALL did. You were speaking in general times, and so was I. Obviously there was one liberal out there who voted against it....
30% of the country did not support the war in 2003 and I remember PLENTY of protests.
Irrelevant.
I won't ask you why trying to make environmental improvements, policies that actually once were bi-partisan concerns and much progress was made by Nixon and Bush Sr, is such a horrific idea because I'm sure I'll hear some stupid, anti-science argument.
Yeah, that's where your idiocy shines through: You think these things are "improvements". Either way, the point is they're considered liberal ambitions. I personally don't give two sh*ts if they fall under "liberal" or whatever, but you were claiming Obama's agenda contains very few "liberal" goals.
Gotta love the GOP "drill baby drill" screaming about the BP spill and how Obama didn't do enough yet they're the ones who pushed and succeeded in overturning his wimpy 6 month ban on deep sea drilling in the Gulf. America deserves what it gets.
Moron, the GOP has been trying to increase the areas where companies are allowed to drill to save money on paying for foreign oil. Like it or not, we need oil, so it makes no sense to keep going over to the Middle East for their oil when we have some here in the States. The reason for the BP spills are a completely separate issue. There causes had to do with safety shortcuts and big government over-regulation. On top of that, Obama and the Democrat-controlled house failed to help. So rather than put the blame on them, you claim it was the GOP's fault for wanting to increase domestic drilling allowances. Well done, ignoramus.
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Hammer_Smashed_Face
14 years ago
You're contradicting yourself by saying I don't have a job but I don't get unemployment, eh???
No, I'm not, because being unemployed is only one of the qualifications for receiving unemployment benefits. This is rather amusing since you have been discussing unemployment and I pointed out that you don't understand how it works. This just proves my point.
In fact your general outrage that I'm possibly accusing laid-off white collar workers, many of whom once railed against welfare for the poor, of being a bit whiny and lazy shows I must have hit a nerve.
Who are these white-collar workers who "railed against" welfare for the poor, and when did they stop doing this (as your comment implies)?
No, you're deluded if you think you "hit a nerve". You're one of those narcissistic idiots who thinks you're winning when you can't even stick coherently to a point and make a case.
You're actually more of a liberal than I am right now because I'm the one saying suck it up, work whatever job you can. Do you even know why you are Republican?
Once again, amusing, because before you claimed you didn't buy into the party myth, but once again you're trying to use it for an argument. I'm actually neither liberal nor Republican. My views do not conform to either party, which is why I did not register as a Democrat, Republican or in fact anything. Calling you an ignorant clown for stereotyping a bunch of people you don't know and for being narrow-minded, naive and even gullible doesn't make me anything in terms of political views or parties.
I'm paying taxes for your unemployment...
I have a job, and even when I was unemployed, I received no benefits, you jackass. Looks like you completely missed the mark as usual.
You are a p-ssy, get over it.
Look who's the one crying about how he had to work hard.
Irrelevant because you couldn't check your facts before making a sweeping assertion that the war in Iraq was supported across the board in 2003?
Irrelevant because it doesn't change the fact that the invasion was a bipartisan effort, meaning it was neither a liberal nor a conservative effort. Citing some poll of those against the war, especially when the figure in the poll doesn't even indicate how many of those against the war were liberal, has nothing to do with anything. It was completely pointless to bring it up and only further confirms you as a fool. Obama and his administration is just as much a bunch of war mongers as Bush and his administration.
You're just upset I called you out on your silly ass attempts to rewrite history. You might want to venture outside of reading Ann Coulter.
Re-write history? Makes no sense at all. Did you take your meds?
And, wrong, dipsh*t, I don't read Ann Coulter as I dislike the b*tch.
So what do you propose be done about the environmental problems?
Whatever I think should be done, it certainly doesn't affect the fact that the bullsh*t Obama is writing or trying to write into law isn't "improvements" except to Big Business.
So it is a real threat that is recognized by the Pentagon, by international organizations, by most developed countries' governments despite what Sarah Palin and the oil men say and no, praying to Jesus isnt going to help us, this is why we need adult thinking and not child-like thinking on serious issues like this.
That's rather silly logic: You're saying since certain environmental threats are recognized by a number of supposedly credible parties, that means that all this stuff Obama is and has pushed through Congress is helping the problem? Even if all these threats were legitimate, it's only the problem, and you're equating anything done in regards about it as helping to solve the problem. To illustrate this (give an example to make my point clear), it's like you saying it's an "improvement" to throw gasoline on a fire in your kitchen since the fire's a real threat to burning down your house.
The fact of the matter is Obama is a puppet, and much if not all of the stuff he pushes through in regards to "environmental improvements" benefits Big Busines, not so much the environment.
The oil we have here is only enough to last a decade or less and we will STILL have to through OPEC, Venezuela and other sources.
So we'll have 10 years worth of cheaper oi, and that's IF we use ONLY that.
Besides, if the GOP was so set against going to the Middle East...
I never said or even implied they were. Try again. The GOP, just like the Democrats, enjoy going to war in the Middle East and playing world police.
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14 years ago
Yes, seems you are deluded and are waving the white flag. No surprise there. Have fun being an ass the rest of your life.
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