Yesterday, speaking to the wingnuts at the so-called “Family Research Council,” a Southern Poverty Law Center-certified hate group, GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann had this to say about the unemployed (in addition to her usual gay bashing and crazy-eyed fear of “socialism”):
“Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can, and should, do for themselves. That revives the principle of a national work ethic that we have sadly forgotten. That means an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay. Self-reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.”
I wonder if the god she worships — presumably the same god who is commanding her to run for President — gave her a divine dispensation to ignore the whole “feed the hungry” thing.
She keeps doing this to “the least of these” and come judgement day she’ll have to answer for a lot.
actually, the Bible verse she is referring to talks about people who are UNWILLING to work, not people who are out of work. (2 Thess 3:10 i checked it out online.) she seems to be assuming everybody who is unemployed would not accept work if it was offered them.
now, i doubt Bachmann has much capacity for logic and reason, but these Republicans seem to be working with two contradictory notions:
1. rich people are job creators. we owe them thanks because they create jobs, and we cannot so we are dependent on them.
2. if you don’t have a job (something that, by 1. you are powerless to create if you are not rich) it is your fault
then again, is there any Republican presidential candidate who understands the Law of the Excluded Middle? i doubt it.
And their kids shouldn’t eat either, I guess.
Bachmann also equates gays with barbarians…which confuses Conan. http://brettcottrell.blogspot.com/2011/07/bachman-equates-gays-with.html
My understanding is that this means people who will not work as opposed to those who cannot work or who cannot find a job. I would love to see this b***h put into the circumstances of the people she wishes to do this to. I am sure there would be whining a-plenty. Obviously this woman has never suffered the misery of poverty or of unemployment.
It’s getting more and more obvious that her “dumbass” dial goes all the way to 11.
The Bachmann family is too busy fleecing the public to support their Big Government farm and robbing clients with their bogus “ex-gay” therapy to ever be poor and desperate. Of course, they do not understand.
Even her line about ‘an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay’ is b******t. People in this country (who are fortunate enough to have a job/jobs) work more hours per week than just about any other country in the industrialized world, yet salaries have been stagnant for at least the past 25-30 years. On the other hand the wealthiest Americans don’t work any harder than the average person (if at all), yet have manipulated the system so that all the wealth flows into their pockets. Their wealth is made on the sweat and toil of others or exists on paper only and is not based on any real goods or services provided.
I’m no fan of Michelle, but what she said was “will not work” which indicates someone who “chooses” not to work not one who can’t find work, but keeps trying. I agree with her on this one. If you choose not to work, but are fully capable of working, why in hell should the rest of us have to feed and support you? Don’t we all know enough people who milk the system already?
Well, it seems that for every person milking the system, there are 10 who desperately need a job and can’t find one. I’m not sure how Bachmann would determine who was milking and who was unlucky. It would be quite sad to be pegged as “choosing not to work” and starving to death because some government bureaucrat wrongfully classified your job search.
Talk about the epitome of death panels.
Wow, what a heartless b***h. Why does she and everyone like her assume that those who are dependent on entitlements don’t want to work? Why is there always the assumption anyone on entitlements is gaming the system? This is heartless and only continues to stereotype those less fortunate and in dire circumstances. I guess she has no quam about seeing dead people in the streets and pot bellied starving kids on the side of the road as in the great depression era while the “fat cats” and rich drive by in their expensive cars. That is where we are headed if we listen to idiots like Bachman
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses??”. :P