Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be
 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_489050.html

Seriously?

We can't just keep treating the federal government as if they have unlimited funds. I agree that eventually the benefits have to dry up. The dole is a temporary measure, not a way of life. There are jobs out there and if that fails, there's entrepreneurship.

*Yawn*

Welcome back, Max. Can't wait to read some more of your stimulating posts.

No, the government doesn't have limited funds, but neither does most of America. Owning a small business costs money, and if it isn't up front, it's in the taxes that small businesses have to pay.

You can start mowing lawns for <$1,000. People manage to come here from Mexico or elsewhere with zero startup capital and run those sorts of businesses. During the immigration debates we were all talking about those jobs Americans simply won't do.

Maybe some folks need to adjust their expectations/entitlement mentalities?

Well, around here, those kinds of businesses are going out of business too. I needed to find a locksmith to have a unique key made a few months ago. I used a 2009 phone book in September '09 and kept driving from listing to listing because the majority of them were simply vanished. Strip malls are emptying out. You have to have customers who can afford your service or business to stay in business. Ugh, it's totally depressing.

I agree a little, but I wouldn't just say it's the democrats or the "other word" you used. There's a lot of the lazy, trailer trash hillbillies, who take advantage of the welfare system, too.

Yep. I agree.

Max, I agree with most of the things you post, but you have to look at the whole picture. You're just saying it's African Americans, but try taking a trip to Walmart. That's like the convention center for lazy, trailer park people. I mean, I give some credit to the drug dealers. At least they understand how business works, but the hillbilles are so freaking stupid they can't even operate a self check out station. And they smell, too. It's not just based on one race of people. It works both ways.

I was going to comment, but this thread is going in a whole 'nother direction.

I like you more now. :)

Go ahead and comment. I hate dumb rednecks. I don't like the ghetto drug dealers either, but I'll bet you can take a drug dealer who lives in the ghetto, and put him or her at the top of a major corporation and he or she would be successful, and that's because numbers are numbers, you either get it or you don't. But the trailer trash wouldn't have a freaking clue. They're too dumb to even spell GED. Idiots!

Why am I picturing Stringer Bell right now...

Who or what's that?

eta: forget I asked. I just googled it.

I hate the way that the welfare system is missed used in this country. I was talking to somebody a few years who still remembered when it first came out. Back then it was called Relief. It's purpose was to give you something to live off of until you could get on your feet. That is what it is designed for, not for people to life off of it indefinitely.