Tom Corbett Says The Unemployed Just 'Sit There'

[Joanne98]

The Republican candidate for governor in Pennsylvania says that extended unemployment benefits discourage the jobless from looking for work.

"The jobs are there, but if we keep extending unemployment, people are just going to sit there," Pennsylvania attorney general Tom Corbett told radio reporter Scott Detrow last week. "I've literally had construction companies tell me, 'I can't get people to come back to work until -- they say, 'We'll come back when unemployment runs out.'"

This week Corbett said he "didn't mean it to be insensitive."

Corbett joins the ranks of GOP candidates Rand Paul in Kentucky and Sharon Angle in Nevada, not to mention several members of Congress -- including Democrats -- who suspect the jobless of preferring not to work.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/13/tom-corbett-says-the-unem_n_644379.html

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

1. Didn't mean it to be, but is insensitive. Douchebag.

[DCBob]

2. This is now becoming one of their key talkng points..

I guess they think it plays well to the ignorant masses.

[valerief]

3. Another talking turd. Blech. nt

[tinkerbell41]

4. Sorry for the foul language...

Tom Corbett can go fuck himself. I am in construction. I waited 21 mos to go back to work. There are no jobs!! My Union Hall has 2400 "guys" on the book right now. Got laid off in Aug 2008. I expect to work maybe another month and then I will go to the bottom of the list and wait another 21 mos. I am a single mother with a college student, a mortgage etc... I would have done anything to go back to work instead of becoming agrophobic, having panic attacks, and basically losing my mind from the stress.

[ensemble]

5. except that....

the jobs are not there. Fact.

[frylock]

6. 9.1% unemployment rate in the state of pennsylvania..

who does this shit play to?!!

[rurallib]

7. Why doesn't one of these geniuses open a placement service?

They would make some real money.
Apparently there are jobs and workers. All he would have to do is match them up.
Almost like one of those dating services.

[provis99]

8. Corbett to peasants: "Let them eat cake."

Thanks, Corbett: you're a real sensitive human being, aren't you?

[applegrove]

9. The GOP will not go a week without trying to isolate the unemployed from the rest of us.

Slicing and dicing as always.

[wisteria]

10. No, they go and apply for jobs with hundreds of others and get turned away

because their are hundreds of applicants for just one job. And, many are beginning to think they will never find decent employment.

[DavidDvorkin]

11. Oh, fuck you, Corbett

Fuck you with a spiked baseball bat.

Yeah, we just sit around enjoying our funemployment while people beg us to accept jobs.

Shithead.

[scarface2004]

12. you lie!

i call bullsh&t on that!

[Octafish]

13. Like our politicians?

There is a difference, though: The unemployed are much quieter.

[gauguin57]

14. Thank goodness his Dem. opponent, Dan Onorato, jumped on this right away.

http://kdka.com/politics/Onorato.Corbett.unemployment.2.1802758.html

[wizstars]

15. Every unemployed person in his state ought to call him....

...and ask him to find them a job! Then go to work for his opponent's campaign!


Another Repug as5hole! EFF 'im!

[BridgeTheGap]

16. Walk a mile in OUR shoes or STFU! n.t