Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

[agzg]

This may get me flamed, but has anyone (especially those against welfare/unemployment benefits) thought about the fact that some wealthy white people prefer to KEEP some on welfare collecting welfare?

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by agzg

This may get me flamed, but has anyone (especially those against welfare/unemployment benefits) thought about the fact that some wealthy white people prefer to KEEP some on welfare collecting welfare?

Not literally, but I do believe that the upper class needs the underclass.

[Little32]

Originally Posted by agzg

This may get me flamed, but has anyone (especially those against welfare/unemployment benefits) thought about the fact that some wealthy white people prefer to KEEP some on welfare collecting welfare?

Right, let's not think for a minute that there is not an institutional, political, and social investment in keeping the status quo--welfare included. That get's to the complexity of the issues that MC references, which trite, politically expedient declarations don't even begin to take into consideration.

ETA: @ Sen I, exactly. Much as they like to complain and point fingers.