Friday, July 16, 2010

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE UNEMPLOYED

You can't fool us any longer. We are on to your sleazy game. You are on unemployment just to get the benefits for not working. The jobs are there, you just don't want them! You are a bunch of lazy, dependent good-for- nothings. Many of you will become hobos, because you don't want to work and unemployment payments only encourage your sloth. To pay you reprobates will only increase the deficit without any benefit. So, get off your ass and get a job!

And how do we know the above is true? Why the Republicans have told us so. From the Republican candidate for Senate in Nevada, the gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, and from Senator John Kyl of Arizona, just to name a few. And just so you know how important deficits are, John Kyl will set you straight. When asked about the effect on the deficit of the extension of the Bush tax cuts (which he favors), Kyl said that we shouldn't find another revenue source for the lost revenue. Deficits matter only when cutting spending, not when cutting revenue. This, by the way, is in line with the Grover Norquist philosophy: reduce the revenue for the government so that spending has to be curtailed, except for the Defense Department, of course. So gather your pitchforks and torches and demand we cut off spending for the unemployed while cutting taxes for the rich. I'm sure that's fair.

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