Screw the unemployed, says Tom DeLay - @corydig your party at work

According to Tom DeLay, an indicted felon, "[p]eople are unemployed because they want to be." That was the question asked by CNN's Candy Crowley yesterday, and DeLay unleashed the view that is common on the right and among Republicans generally (but that many are reluctant to voice publicly):

Well, it is the truth. and people in the real world know it. And they have friends and they know it. Sure, we ought to be helping people that are unemployed find a job, but we also have budget considerations that are incredibly important, especially now that Obama is spending monies that we don't have.

So, basically, screw 'em. The unemployed want to be unemployed, the poor want to be poor, we all get what we deserve, and that's just the way it is.

The way it is to smug, self-satisfied Republicans like DeLay, those without a trace of compassion. Digby:

I would guess that this is going to catch on among the dittoheads. The right is reasoning that they can appeal to a good number of the majority who are employed and make them question why they should subsidize all those losers who are not. It worked with health care.

rest at http://the-reaction.blogspot.com/2010/03/screw-unemployed-says-tom-delay.html