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  • Delay is one of the biggest scumbags ever to hold office. I laughed my ass off the day he got caught up in his own pile of feces. I hope he has to go back to his old job---bug exterminator.

  • delay is a piece of shit...american scum, he makes trash look bad, fucking dirtbag, conservative idiocy at it's best....just think he represents america...this fuck'n loser...only in america...

  • even with this being said... Republicans win the House. We have a lot of stupid Americans in this country.

  • Even after watching this insect on my computer I have this need to take a shower to cleanse myself of this filth. Does this man Delay realize how sleazy, how greasy and how dirty he is and how he corrupts anyone within 10,000 miles of his filth?

  • Tom Delay's probably not laughing so hard now.

  • A stool sample at best.

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  • Tom Delay is a criminal and he belongs in jail!

  • People in the real world at apparently not also unemployed. Wow....

  • I don't mind Delay's past partying & drinking. 12 martinis a night? That is amazing. I do mind his born again Christian bullshit. I do mind that he has not been tried for CRIMINAL violations of state campaign finance laws. TX & LA are known for this shit, especially judges running for election. I do mind that he is a birther. I do mind his adultery & then his support for Clinton's impeachment. I do mind that he owns Bichon Frise faggoty ass dogs. Get a real dog, one that belongs in badass Texas.

  • lol love it

  • daleys a small fry compared to bigger crooks in washington. what daly did is nothing compared to the sleazy deals being made washinton all the time

  • Both parties suck so bad. There are a handful of honest politicians.

  • Tom Delay should be in prison several times over.

    Thanks a lot CNN for giving this scum of the earth a platform to speak.

  • I'm guessing that Tom saw the Seinfeld episode when George makes up a phony latex company and gives Jerry's number to get unemployment extensions. Yeah, and he's talking about reality? Nice try asshole.

  • Unemployment benefits typically go right back into the economy in the form of paying rents or mortgages, bills, buying food, etc.; so that's another reason the government isn't to keen on cutting it off just yet.

    There's a ripple effect.

  • Tom Delay is gay...

    ...he was on Dancing with the stars

  • Total double plus.

  • I'm unemployed, got laid off, and I'm trying to find a job, because right now I don't have health insurance. (COBRA is too expensive for me, even with the govt. reduction)

    Not only are there 6 applicants for every job opening, but in my field of work it would be considered lucky to find one opening!

    Not to mention UI can barely cover the monthly expenses, and that's only because I don't have a family to support.

  • @k0d14k1 Same here, man. Same here. it's ridiculous nowadays.

  • Tom Delay is still free? Why is this slimy, sleazeball crook not in jail? How long does it take for justice to be served on these scum bag politicians? His buddy Jack Abramoff is doing time, and yet this slimy mutt is allowed to walk to free. Lock him up now and throw away the key. Slimy bastard!

  • No Tom, Democrats can't get anything done because most of them actually care about doing it right. As in bi-partisanship, but ALL of the Republicans in senate, as of now, are fat cunts! I sure as hell would like to be employed you jerk! And I don't even take unemployment!

    FUCK YOU TOM DELAY!

  • Go get in your air conditioned chauffeur driven limo and go suk a few more lobbyists off disk-weed.

  • Hey Tommy,

    Ever dig dirt with pick & shovel, or mix concrete by hand all day?

    Have you ever worked with concrete blocks all day throwing them around for the masons, do you now what a weigh lite is Tommy, 90lbs each. Ever sit and replace a a roof in 90 heat all Tommy? Do you or have you ever really worked Tommy? I think the congress should be fired, and the senate kicked out on the lazy asses./ I wouldn't let you run a cool aid stand ok! You don't have a clue what Americans do EVERYDAY!

  • It's kinda funny when White people mention arrogance.Just alone having a black president in the White House is arrogant by itself.I hear the republicans say that alot.That is a Southern racist thing.I'm from the South and I know.

  • another vile right winger.

    the list is getting looooong.

  • F!@k Tom Delay, Seriously, I've been out of work and looking for a job since the day after I got laid off. I've made it a point to apply for 5-20 jobs a week since then. The problem finding a job is that everyone else is unemployed too and your vying for a job against 30-40 other people. Thankfully I keep getting interviews so my spirits are still high, but God damn this son of a bitch. He has no f@#$ing clue what americans are going through.

  • Why would anyone invite this crook to come on TV at all. He is a criminal who stole taxpayers money and was forced to resign.

    He's a creep.....

  • what a fucking prick! who's the lazy one? the people spending hours of lives job searching and struggling just be able to feed their families or the rich bastard that gets paid to opose anything the president wants passed?

  • There is a rage in this country...

    Yeah, and who are the fucking Pinheads who are keeping that rage near the point of boiling over ? Beck, Rush, Ann Coulter, etc... oh, and I almost forgot, Dick and Liz Cheney and Palin... That's what they really want, soe they can say, "See we told you all, what would happen if Obama gets elected. Now beg us to come back and save you all... This is the GOP wish.

    Tom Delay is a fuckhead...

  • @TheTruth006 well not everybody is lazy like your mother a lot of people are independent i like have a job but really cant find one, you need to report your mother because she is lazy and giving people who is unemployment benefit a bad name

  • People want to get unemployed?

    It is like saying people who are ill actually want to be ill so that they could enjoy a day off with salary.

  • That guy is a genius, a brilliant politician. Too bad hes a goddamn douchebag hypocrit.

  • "the real world"... I wanna smack that guy.

  • Tom Delay is a typical closet queen fake conservative hypocrite.

  • Gee, Tom, thanks for reminding us how glad we are that you're irrelevant and no longer able to fuck this country up anymore, you disgraced piece of shit. You're over. Go sell some bug spray moron.

  • The title of this video could have been shortened to: "Tom Delay's Laughable"

  • The interviewer doesn't have a clue

  • Crowley has a clue alright, but she's part of the corporate media that rolled over and played dead while Delay was carrying out his crimes instead of doing her damn job. I'm still not convinced that Delay didn't pay her and some of the other media turds off just to keep quiet. Either way, I have nothing but contempt for that fat pig.

  • DeLay probably does think they're lazy, he thinks

    "Why can't they run for Congress and make crooked deals with shady people then get a pay day?"

    By the way, had it not been for unemployment my dad would've been homeless 25 years ago.

    What human resource officer will hire someone who looks like they've been living on the street?

  • DeLay is pretty much scum of the earth.  Politicians like him are why America is in decline.

  • Not according to practically ever reputable economist, including the conservative Wall Street Journal, and the non partisan Congressional Budget Office, who all say the stimulus saved somewhere around 1.6 million jobs. That's 1,600,000 jobs. That's 1.6 million people who didn't have to go on unemployment, didn't have to lose their health insurance, didn't default on their mortgages etc.

  • I don't understand how people can be tricked into voting for someone like Tom Delay who just turns and stabs them in the back.

  • I like to put it this way. I'm not rich enough to be a Conservative.

  • neither am i, nor am i white enough.

    or old enough.

    nor bigoted or Christofascist enough.

    **sigh**

  • @IFloridaMotocrossI I put it this way, I'm not ignorant enough, not apathetic enough, and not insensitive enough to be a Conservative.

  • @IFloridaMotocrossI It has nothing to do with money,,,or religeon dumbell

  • People are unemployed because they want to be, its the truth and people in the real world know it? No, people are unemployed because of a bad economy brought on by Delay's policies, he is lying and everybody outside of Washington D.C. knows it.

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  • He is projecting his own feelings onto everybody else.

  • Come on americans, dont fall for the same trick we germans did: The elites tell the story of the lazy unemployed to play employed against unemployed workers. This way politics can cut unemployment benfits, increase the desperation of job applicants and shut them of. As a result competition between applicants increases and thus wages decrease.

    Its a scheme played by politicians, the elites and corporate media.

    Unemployd workers are workers too. Dont let the elites devide you!

  • @13otany13ay very good comment. The exact same thing happened in France - and Sarkozy used this trick a lot to get elected.

  • I remember him saying as he left office:

    "when you think of me, think of Jesus"

    ...what a sleaze!!

  • Rage in this country was conceived during the bush administration

  • That fuckin Son of a Bitch....Fuckin Retard that tom delay

  • Unemployment benefits are regulated, so not many people can get away with that....

    If you want to argue that unemployment isn't regulated enough, that would be a great provision in the jobs bill. More bureaucratic jobs for the regulation and fact checking of unemployment extensions, applications, etc.

    It will create jobs, and increase fiscal responsibility by weeding out those who do milk the system.

  • nice!

  • Isn't Tom Delay supposed to be in jail or something?

  • One would think.

  • Better to die free on my feet than to serve Obama on my knees

  • This is what kids are doing now, when they get caught lying about their wrong doing they say; "Mom, Dad, it's O.k........... I'm a Republican"

    LOL

  • How easy would politics be if you could just lie about everything, and no one calls you on it?

    the GOP has it really good.

  • Just one of Tom Delay's infamous quotes: "I AM the federal government." Tom DeLay, to the owner of Ruth's Chris Steak House, after being told to put out his cigar because of federal government regulations banning smoking in the building, May 14, 2003

    Is he an asshole or what ? !

  • All conservatives fall into one if not all of the following categories-- Felons, Liars, Religious Kooks, Inferiors, Malcontents, Anti-Patriots, Pedophiles, Cross Dressers, Public Masturbaters, Arsonist, Peeping Toms, Illiterates Closeted Homosexuals and General Losers

  • Hey what's wrong with cross dressing? Anyway you are far too optimistic. I'd say nearly everyone can be put into one of those categories :)

  • Rebupics are all snakes...

  • why is it I hear Conservatives always say the words "the truth" it's all over the comments on YT, when you make an arguement "You don't want to hear the truth" just keep an eye out you'll see it pop up here and there.

  • How cute his little flag pin.

  • I'm with Cenk on the vast majority of issues but the second thing Delay said actually did have some truth to it. I've seen it many times when a person receives aid then does not try to get a job. It's sad but it is true- not of the entire 10% unemployed but a solid chunk of it.

  • I worked the same job for 10 years, got laid off and now I can't even get a job at riteaid.

  • don't worry, just hang it there, you'll find something.

  • As much of hypocrite that Tom Delay is, there is no denying the fact that he got the job done and got his Republican colleagues in line. He was wonderful in getting what he wanted and he would stab and walk all over you. That's something the Democrats never had an never will and enforcer that can get people in line.

  • your response to tom delay's insensitivity toward unemployed folks and down-right ignorance was refreshing! keep up the good work!

  • I guess Tom Delay's "real world" only exists in his head.

    Well, maybe he and Jim Bunning have a collective brain.

  • Nah, it's not in his head. It's up his ass.

  • "There a study"? If the 'Study' isn't sited, it's BS! I can commission a 'study' to reveal that bananas taste like oranges!

    There are 6 active job seekers for every 1 job opening (not including those that have given up, or retired early)! over 14 MILLION jobs were lost, and have yet to be replaced by other industries!

    Hey Deley, F•ck your 'study', 1st grade math will do just fine!

    side note: The $300 billion a year in goods we import from China could pay 9 million Americans $35K per year!

  • right on!!

    Cenk, being a Turk, knows the American "real world"???

    actually, there are many people that enjoy milking the system

    do they represent the majority??, likely not

  • Thankyou Cenk for expressing my anger.

  • Tom Delay, criminal. member of the family, a group that pushes religion above all. also guilty of taking bribes, and is involved in a ton of bad shit. He's a peice of shit.

  • Well nobody wants to work, but there's other things to take into account here.

  • All unemployed are like George Costanza, this is what I'm taking from him.... Anybody else???

  • Tom was a great proponent of Democratic lobbyist unemployment. In fact, he insisted on it. And he never minded taking those Republican lobbyist perks. But he did give us the perkiest mugshot ever seen.

  • Like it or not, DeLay got stuff done, and the democrats could really use somebody like him...

  • @chrisknows

    yeah.. bad shit. no, dems need someone who could get good shit done.

  • There are some people that are unelmpled because they are lazy its like a vacation for them.

    But they need to understand that some people have kids a house and other things that still need to be taken care of while they look for a job.

  • Democrats make their decisions in back rooms? They caved to everything the Republitards wanted on healthcare and it still went nowhere. in- between infinite Repub fillibusters.

  • What the fuck does he know about the real world?!? My sister has a college degree. After getting layed off from our local newspaper she was unemployed for nearly a year because some places wouldn't hire her because she was overqualified, whatever that means. My best friend, a married father of 3, lost his job in August and has found nothing! He's depressed and feels bad because he HAS to, not GETS to, be on unemployment. What an asshole!

  • I know EXACTLY what that means. Even while I was IN college getting my BS in computer science, CompUSA would not hire me. I have a great work history, and obviously I was qualified for the job, but the guy thought he would have to pay me too much.

    It's an odd thing to think that a college degree can keep someone from finding a quick job to make it by in a pinch, but it's true.

  • Welcome to the race to the bottom.

  • @doctender77

    I love Delay's argument that the unemployed have it too good. That $400 a month or whatever is just opulent and lavish!

    Good luck to your sister and friend on finding jobs!

  • I would have asked him "Define 'real world' please."

  • I lost my job in July 09, and was making about 1000 dollars a week. I have a wife and 2 kids. I didn't even file for UE until October because all I wanted to do was work and make what I was making or at least close. I receive 430 dollars a week. So am I supposed to go flip burgers for minimum wage, which wouldn't even net 430 a week or keep searching as I do. You think I wouldn't prefer 1000 a week again...I would take less than 1000, but still I should be paid more than the 430???

  • Exactly. The Repugs want you to go and work part time for $100 a week and live on the street eating dirt. So they can keep there money that there grandpa earned.

  • Thanks for your reply because it truly hurts being unemployed and its really depressing. Arguments like these where they think all people should just go sweep streets make me feel like a freeloader, but I'm really not. Thanks again.

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  • When i see stuff like this I shit my pants. I am freaked out by the elite freak bag republican mind . This is like good against evil. The Republic vs the Empire !

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  • Tom is a fucking bum. I would say less than 1% of those unemployed milk the system. Look at the ages of those unemployed, most are too old to be single and therefore probably have families. Nobody with a family can afford to live off of UE money. You get just a fraction of your original pay and in most cases even that number wasn't enough.

    In addition, these pple who are getting UE used to be employed thus they PAID TAXES, so why wouldn't they deserve the help? Repubs are just rich bitches

  • @dfrutled... I think Tom Delay has been watching to much Seinfeld, and he assumes every person on unemployment is like George Costanza.... My rational on this makes more sense than his...

  • what a lying sack of shit this bastard is !!

  • I think you're missing the point. He's a dick. Yes, that's true. But even jerks occassionally speak the truth.

    Maybe we SHOULD ask why the Dem's couldn't pass anything with 60 votes. You see him as a bully, because he bullied Dems. I think he's talking about him not bullying Repubs, and he's saying Pelosi tries to bully Dems.

    He got stuff done. Pelosi doesn't. Maybe if we want things done, we should listen to what he's saying (while taking it with a grain of salt).

  • What Tom said isn't hard to believe AT ALL!!!

    People with unemployment generally don't try to find a job until about two or three weeks before their unemployment runs out... why is that an outrageous statement... IT ISN'T... it's proly WORSE than that.

    The thing is during this free time, I would imagine that peopple take are of things they couldn't take care of as efficiently with a job.

    ALONE, the statement he made isn't outrageous at all, and it's most likely VERY true.

  • @upplsuckimcool16 You can't get unemployment if you're not looking for a job. Have to show evidence for it every week (or 2 weeks). And unemployment maxes out at like 450 dollars a week, 'maxes out' at 450 a week. Lower income people who had lower income jobs before unemployment get even less.

  • @upplsuckimcool16... Your argument is just as bad as his, not citing any studies done, but just saying "Oh but there have studies been done that say this!!!". If you say that you must know what study it is, who did it, and why. If you haven't you should keep your mouth in check otherwise smart people who think rationally will call you out. It's no different than speaking erroneously about anything, its just an assumption back up by circumstance.

  • Bull! I had log about 600 hours of searching before I got a job. I had no time to do anything else but look for work. Most folks that have to loo for work have to put in 1000 hours of searching before they find something. I bet you don't work and never have. Until you have to look for work to keep for having to starve to death zip it.

  • Yes there is a "rage" Delay. You fucking liar. If you aren't looking for work you get cut off of unemployment. Unemployment is shit compared to a real job.

  • sadly, he'll get re-elected if he runs again because people are that STUPID

  • I am so sick of hearing this BULLSHIT!!! The gang of six was half Republican and they helped to write the health care bill. They are such cry baby liars. The Democrats have bend over backwards to include Republican ideas.

    I am so sick of The Republican Party.

  • yeah, & the 'real' world farmed our jobs into other countries to make a bigger profit.

  • A "rage in the country"? Yeah, because Obama's turned into a worthless Republican, rather than the Democrat he ran as. Does Delay think that means I'll vote GOP as a result? What narrow thinking.

  • Tom Delay complaining about Democrat bullying? What a hoot! Another politician who has no memory before last election day.

  • So I was unemployed for 3 months and it was a total nightmare. I had to job hunt form the time I got up in the morning many times before dawn till I went to sleep after midnight just to generate any sort of leads for interviews. Where dose Delay get it in his thick skull that you can just be able to find a good job in a week or so.?

  • @dartnet

    3 months, lucky bugger, i have been looking for a job for near 3 years.

    Asshats like this guy make me wanna slap them silly.

  • Cry some more, Tom DeLay. You old liar.

  • By the way, did this guy get his last name from his his brain works?

  • Of course his last point was silly as shit. I mean, in a welfare state (Americans, read that as communist state) like Norway or Sweden you actually get a pretty decent amount of money when you're unemployed, up to 80% of your previous income. And, if you subtract the cost of transportation and most often expensive food when you work from your original salary, you get close to 80% anyway. So in Norway and Sweden, yeah, it could be a problem. In America? Nope.

  • What a f*cking liar. Noone I know hasn't been looking for a job since they got canned. 400 dollars a week just doesn't cut it, even if they were lazy. People are DESPERATE for work

  • alot of people go on unemployment and work under the table

  • in the real world... tom delay would be in prison.

  • Rage makes stupid. And only fools do not capitalize on it. And only the insane would allow anyone other than themselves to capitalize it. So the dems should stop turning the other cheek (or the 9000th cheek) and start recruiting some of that civic anger and make sure that the republicans don't make use of it.

    Frustration and anger of the populace should be seen as a resource. You must deprive your opponent of it, but it would not be wise to cultivate it (unless you want a revolution).

  • So you're saying two wrongs make a right? We should recruit a Glenn Beck type to spew propaganda and get people worked up into a frenzy? And this is going to have productive results for the country?

  • I am saying that the opposition is doing it, and the only way to counter is to do the same. So there should be some method of directing popular discontent at the other faction. But the tricky part is not to cultivate further discontent. Removing discontent is possible, but very difficult.

    So the most effective course of action is to turn the opposition into an "other," which your side can oppose. But if the atmosphere allows it, one should try and simply lessen discontent, but that is hard.

  • And it is not only the message, but the messenger.

    Limbaugh and Beck give the message "they're the opposition, hate them." Much like TYT does.

    The difference is, Beck and Limbaugh tell you to hate the opposition because they're the opposition (and put in a few million lies, like the death panels). TYT tells us that they (reps and neocons) are the opposition because they hate us. And thus far I have not noticed deliberate falsehoods from this show.

  • If Limbaugh, beck and TYT would do segments on Finland I'd guess it'd go something along these lines:

    TYT: Finland is a peaceful scandinavian state with a highly developed social welfare program.

    Beck: Finland is a socialist welfare state that aided and abbeted the Soviets during the cold war.

    Limbaugh: Finland is a welfare state, where the government handles everything in peoples' lives.

  • Delay was the guy that made them have their meeting in the basement?

    What a twat!!

  • Tom Delay easily embodies everything that could ever be wrong with congress. He then turns around and runs on a folksy good ol' boy and gets elected by a bunch of sniveling dumbasses.

  • Tom Delay is a piece of shit. His involvement in the lobbying indusry K Street project filled Republicans in higher positions in various firms. He loves corporate power, and has litltle regard for human rights and civil liberties.

    Must I remind anyone of his piss poor handling of the Terri Schiavo case which goes far beyond hypocrisy.

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  • He only looks at things from the employers side where high unemployment is good for business. Lots of exploitable labour competing for a small number of jobs. This is probably true of most leaders and politicians.

  • Tom Delay has been trying to raise his profile for a while now he has been attempting to make himself relevant lately after a long absence from the lime light look out I bet he is going to make a run for the white house in 2012. I dont have any proof of this but I see him on TV now and making statements in the press so he can start rebuilding his image this is not a guy we need back in politics at any level.

  • HAD OWNERSHIP ON IT?! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! HOW MANY FUCKING REPUBLICAN PLANS ARE IN THE HEALTH CARE BILL?! Shut. The. Fuck. Up... GOD it's embarrassing to be an American sometimes.

  • Republicans: beyond hypocrisy, beneath contempt.

  • lol, well I guess you're not talking about the christian god then, because apparently his son spent most of his time helping the poor...so what god are you invoking?

  • Vorpalbite: when you lose your job again during the next few years of recession, remind me not to help you when you're on the streets.

    Give yourself a pat on the back, humanitarian.

  • THANK YOU FOR BRINING UP THIS POINT

    You are absolutly correct

    I dont want to help others - You must not impose your idea of help upon me

    Its called taking responcability for myself

  • You really don't have much sense of community, do you? You pride yourself in individualism so much that you forget to help others. All you care is about the money in your pocket, very little else. It's very difficult for you to get out of this mind set. 47 million people do not have health care and continues to grow because workers struggle with higher health costs, copayments and bullshit like this.

    You take pride in your idiocy. Well done, Jesus would be proud of you.

  • vorp: You don't to help anyone? Fine. You might need some help on the spelling. It's one thing to have a typo in which I am guilty of. But to mispell several words in a few short sentences tells me more of your unsung idiocy.

  • @bobbytiger: If your going to try to put up an argument, please don't make it too obvious that your biased.

  • republicans=nazis democrats=soup nazis

  • Delay's a worthless piece of shit. But then again all RepubliCUNTs are worthless pieces of shit.

    What a bunch of maroons.

  • in the real world people get fired and dont get bribed buy corporate America to fuck the "little people" The politicians make me sick.

  • Tom Delay, project much?

  • he put his face out there on CNN, and lied about what his time in politics was so his ex-party can gain power. He's still in politics. You lost the election, get over it, stop hating on democracy, and stop watching a semi-sane news network you sore loosing cunt. Get the fuck out of america if you don't like democracy, move to somalia.

  • My goodness gracious @unassumption,

    what an angry little person you are.

    If you can't talk without a garbage mouth,

    I'm going to have to hunt you down,

    and wash your potty-mouth out with soap.

  • Hey, I know you conservative types hate free speech and wish you could do away with the Constitution, but Cenk and unassumption still have every right to say anything they want to you.

  • @bobbytiger

    Oooh, internet tough guy, huh?

  • @bobbytiger

    My 5 year old presents better arguments and zero ad hominem when debating.

    Are you not in the least bit embarrassed with the juvenile name calling?

    Or is your argument so weak that you need to throw childish words into your posts to somehow bolster your points of view?

    Come on Bobby time to use big boy words.

  • @bobbytiger So because Delay is a private citizen he's off bounds? You conservatives always have excuses as to why you can't be criticized.

  • Palin is technically a private citizen or in politics now, but we discuss her...

  • HAHAHA, the Clinton News Network. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO clever. Did you think of that one all by yourself? Or are you borrowing from Rushie Rush?

  • @bobbytiger: More lame rancid bile-spew from a sub-pathetic wingnut troll.

    Are your parents siblings?

  • Candy Crowley and CNN let these people away with stuff ...hardly pressing them on what they say and just giving them a forum for their BS.... The media has done a poor job in this country

    If that was an average citizen interviewing him ...Tom Delay would get an ear full !!

  • I think Delay is playing the "helpless victim" card, like so many Republicans are right now.

    I'm kind of unbalanced when it comes to unemployment. I live in a highly unemployed area. There are a lot of people who have lost their jobs, and are ashamed that they've had to reduce themselves to unemployment or public aid.

    On the other hand - I've seen people on unemployment, fit as a fiddle, capable of going out to find work - and they see it as more of a vacation then a responsibility.

  • Obviously not everyone who is unemployed wants to be and I don't think Delay was trying to say that they are but I personally know of people who stay on unemployment because they get more money through unemployment than they would if they were working at a job they previously had. It's not as rare as you make it seem Cenk.

  • I was layed of for 8 months a few years ago. There is no way you get more money being unemployed than you did when you were employed. The state knows what you were making and you get less than half of that. I made in 2 weeks what I was making in a week.

  • That may be what is supposed to happen but I guarantee you that my second cousin's husband (no idea what that would be to me) here in SC is getting paid more to sit around the house and hunt every day than he was when he was working. Is it enough for them to live off of solely? I don't know because his wife works while he does nothing. It does happen and I've seen it for myself.

  • that's still not a lot of money to live off of!

  • That's why there are time restrictions on how long one can collect unemployment. More to the point, if you are unhappy about how some people abuse the system and you happen to know someone that it doing just that, DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT PERSON! Arguing to deny benefits to everyone is a coward's way of avoiding confrontation. If we all knew a mooch and spoke up directly to that person, there would be a whole lot less mooching. That's called community action,organization, and responsibility.

  • Many people have spoken to him; just as many people speak out about others abusing the system. The true cowardice is the individuals who sit on their butts instead of getting a job and those who avidly support them. There are people who need help but there are also many people who feel like they are too good for available jobs and people who are simply lazy.