Keith Olbermann SLAMS The GOP For Failing To Extend Jobless Benefits, Special Comment

OLBERMANN:
First, as promised, a Special Comment on jobless benefits.
A year ago, a heartless Missouri State Representative named Cynthia Davis lashed out against school summer breakfast programs. She didn't understand the point. Why should the government keep kids from having breakfast at home with their folks? This woman was so disconnected from privation and want and poverty that it had not occurred to her that not every child has enough food to eat. She added this insulting, demeaning postscript for the hungry children of Missouri: "tip, if you work for McDonald's, they will feed you for free during your break."
As of this month, with their members in the Senate killing a temporary emergency extension of benefits to the jobless, Cynthia Davis's blinkered, belligerent, bestial attitude might as well be the official platform of the Republican party. George Will, rapidly becoming the spokesman for the year 1931, said yesterday that the Republican senators, quoting, "believe that when you subsidize something, you'll get more of it. And we're subsidizing unemployment. That is the long-term unemployment, those unemployed more than six months. Is at an all-time high. And they do not think it's stimulative, because what stimulates is the consumer and savers' sense of permanent income. Everyone knows that unemployment benefits are not permanent income."
So the 1,400,000 Americans who will have lost their unemployment benefits by the end of this week are better off because George Will and the Republicans believe this will get them off their duffs and into those job openings that the Republicans spend the rest of the time reminding everybody don't exist, and that's all Obama's fault.
Hungry kids were eating breakfasts at schools in Missouri because the government wanted to break up their families, not because their families did not have enough money to properly feed them. And the unemployed are unemployed because there are jobless benefits, not because the last administration crashed the economy for the benefit of Wall Street. And their kids will now be eating breakfasts at schools in Missouri because—
And the people that believe these sadistic fantasies, you would consider voting for them?

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[KCCLARK103]

Keith Olbermann is a dweeb

[SissyLou1]

Go away! Oh, wait, he got PUT AWAY...

[label1877]

@jabberwolf Thank you...I agree. Keith is a douche bag.

[jabberwolf]

Keith - youre wrong .... again.

Again, I cant even go back through ANYTHING he has said that has been correct.

Anyone, anyone, I'm not kidding.

I want to find at least 1 thing Keith has been accurate it, but I cannot!

[nickmax123]

i cant believe how people say glenn beck makes up conspiracy theories, when this guy said that bush caused the crash to help wall street!!!!!

[potent454]

Is it the parents responsibility to feed their children or the states? If we give Welfare why can't the parents use those benefits to provide breakfast. Conservatives are right if you are handing away free money for a behavior you will get more of it.

[JervMann]

What a Jackass!!!

[Pyrofreak321]

@Roonskii i wasn't aware that i didn't. damn.

[pansch1138]

@Roonskii

Why? Look at the state we are in now with your liberal friends running the show.

[RedSoxWSAgain]

@Zips4Life the right also hates obama 100X more than they ever hated clinton.