Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by bosaco

Top be honest, when I hear your people make excuses and I see illegals sneaking into the country and outperforming your people I assume you don't have any real clue.

My people?

Originally Posted by Kevin

Tom Delay made that assertion. I did not. I simply stated that welfare has to end at some point.

Kevin, I was responding to your statement in this thread -- "There are jobs out there and if that fails, there's entrepreneurship" -- admittedly through the filter of other comments you have made in the past, like

Originally Posted by Kevin

And as far as being unemployed, I don't see how it isn't the worker's fault? Or that it should be up to the employed to subsidize the unemployed. Poor savings/spending habits, choosing to work in a doomed industry, etc. These are all personal choices or at the very least, they are gambles that turned out poorly. That's part of life in a non planned economy.

If you're now saying that this statement doesn't represent your opinion, great.

I don't think simplistic or real thinking is happening right now in Washington. At least nothing that is focused on cost/utility as it should be (unless the desired outcome is political capital).

No thinking at all, huh.