"Limbaugh: Jobless must suffer"

[Bleyseng]

"According to Rush, the unemployed would go back to work if their unemployment benefits weren't so posh"

"Where did all this come from? Limbaugh’s warning Mitt Romney that he won’t be able to win the election on jobs by continuing to point out the high unemployment rate. And not because Romney’s personal record is one of slashing and burning jobs wherever he went. No, Limbaugh thinks that unemployment is still high because those unemployed folks are being coddled with food stamps and unemployment checks.

His evidence for this? Stories that retail sales are down because unemployment checks are running out, record numbers depending on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits (SNAP, formerly food stamps), and the fact that the unemployed still have cars.

This is a variation, of course, on the age-old theme of right-wing populists like Limbaugh, who make their own (astronomically large) salaries by convincing their listeners that they’re paying taxes solely to keep poor people in big-screen TVs and Cadillacs. In the ’90s it was the “welfare queen,” now it’s the long-term unemployed, coasting by on their benefits, perfectly happy never to work again. And of course, happy to vote for Barack Obama, the man who, in Limbaugh’s twisted storyline, both wrecked their jobs and then gave them handouts so they could stay unemployed.

God, the ring wing are so out of touch with the American people is not even funny anymore!

[SlowLane]

Well, I can certainly see how Rush could be considered a component of a fuel delivery system. Most likely the shovel ...

[Hippie]

Some hungry fellow should eat the fat sonovabitch.

[JLT]

Well, I can certainly see how Rush could be considered a component of a fuel delivery system. Most likely the shovel ...

Maybe. Or maybe it's some sort of new hot-air propulsion system, using hot volatile gases generated by closed-circuit bloviation.

Just the same, maybe it's time to move this thread to "Free Speech."

[Amskeptic]

Well, I can certainly see how Rush could be considered a component of a fuel delivery system. Most likely the shovel ...

Maybe. Or maybe it's some sort of new hot-air propulsion system, using hot volatile gases generated by closed-circuit bloviation.

Just the same, maybe it's time to move this thread to "Free Speech."

Rush Limbaugh: Fool Delivery . . .

[Bleyseng]

yuck, yuck....

[Spezialist]

Austerity measures until morale improves.

[Hippie]

Right-on.
The floggings will continue until morale improves.

[ruckman101]

I always liked Howard Stern's assessment of Rush, a big pumpkin. Come to think of it, I think that's the only thing I have ever liked Howard Stern for.


neal

[Spezialist]

I don't care that he's fat, I care that people actually listen to him and think he's credible.
That is truly a black eye for America in a world community.
But as a side note;
Keith Oberman gets fired again? From current TV.
And a Bill Moyers program edited out "Wall Street" from a recent interview about occupy wall street.
I quit caring even about Bill after all these years, after that.
The memory hole is getting bigger gentleman.

[ruckman101]

What? Suppress information?

I do agree the big pumpkin is a black eye for the US in the world community. Depressing how many others there are from top to bottom.

Speaking of memory holes ... ... ... uhm.



neal

[Amskeptic]

And a Bill Moyers program edited out "Wall Street" from a recent interview about occupy wall street.
I quit caring even about Bill after all these years, after that.
The memory hole is getting bigger gentleman.

Tell us more . . . I missed that and respect Bill Moyers. What was his motivation/rationale?
Colin