Rep Steve King (Idiot-IA) Unemployment in America caused by 'a nation of slackers'

[WI_DEM]

King: The 80 million Americans that are of working age but are simply not in the workforce need to be put to work. We can't have a nation of slackers and then have me have to sit in the Judiciary Committee listening to them argue that there's work that Americans won't do, so we have to import people to do the work that Americans won't do, and borrow money to pay the welfare of people that won't work. That is a foolish thing for a nation to do. We've gotta get this country back to work and get those people out of the slacker rolls and onto the employed rolls.

www.dailykos.com

Tell me this guy isn't vulnerable next year?

King with Bachmann:

[Stargleamer]

1. they start with a calloused, hostile attitude toward the poor. . .

and then they adopt a belief system to justify such an attitude. The greed, hostility and resentment are there first, it's easy to find a belief system such as Ayn Rand's to justify it. I think David Hume noted that one can find rational reasons for justifying just about anything one want to have justified, and John Kenneth Galbraith noted that conservatism is a philosophy of always trying to justify greed. Conscience gets thrown out the window.

Or, alternatively, those like King don't really believe the nonsense they espouse, but cynically hope to persuade other gullible Americans, who typically don't have the time to think things through, of its merits.

[COLGATE4]

4. Most of them already have the belief system ingrained, at least

those who are rabid Evangelicals - being poor, as per the Protestant Ethic is by definition being unfavored by God, so the Poor really have it coming to them, just as the Rich are rich because obviously God favors them.

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Note to evangelicals:

"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven" -- Jesus

That is all.

[COLGATE4]

2. And what about the workhouses? Are there no workhouses???

(With apologies to Charles Dickens)

[Cerridwen]

3. Yes, and they would be called the Idle Rich. n/t

[Kalidurga]

8. His district loves him at least for now....

I hope that the people in his district wake up to how unstable this guy is and get rid of him. But, I don't have a lot of hope for that he won big in 2010.

[Cerridwen]

10. Damn. Sorry to hear that. Which sounds weird if they love him.

Good for them. Awful for everyone else.

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. Yeah, I 'slacked' my way through college, multiple bar-level certifications and a masters degree.

Fuck you, Steve King.

[GoCubsGo]

9. I "slacked" my way through temp jobs for the last 4 summers...

...that this pompous slimeball wouldn't last five minutes in. And, they were entry-level jobs, despite the fact that I have 20+ years of experience and a Masters degree. I'd love to take that fucker out into the swamp where I spent those summers, and leave him there in the muck with the cottomouths, briars, poison ivy, and biting insects. "Fuck you" doesn't even begin to cover it.

[OHdem10]

7. Why the Democratic Party has not gotten out there and made

the point over and over until it stuck, I will never
know.

We are in this mess because of Conservative Economic Fundamentalism
put in motion by Reagan and the Republicans and GWB and Republicans
drove the last nail in the coffin. Free Market Fundamentalism
and Tax Cuts ---Deregulation and Tax Cuts gave Business so much
Freedom that the Banksters went on a gambling binge and the
Government has been denied funding by constant and massive
tax cuts. The American People were thrown under the bus
as Trade Policy after Trade Policy gutted America;s ability
to build things here and sell them else where. No they sent
Americas jobs out of the country.

So far we have permitted the Republicans paint their version
of what went wrong. Thus we will continue to do the same old
things and stupidly think we will get something different.

We must convince the American People the policies of the
last 30 years are wrongheaded and wrong for the country.
Or see ya, in RW Land--not such a pleasant future.

[jwirr]

14. This area has a small but active Democratic Party. They have been

trying but this is a red area in a red state. My guess it that many Democrats did not vote in 2010 and that the rethugs got their voters out. Our biggest home in that area is to convince them of the danger to the big 3. That is the one issue that is of importance to every area of this country.

[tsuki]

11. Recently I have been spending a lot of time on blogs that

blog about disaster capitalism. I learned how uninformed I really was. And how much of the information could be transferred to the political realm.

Steve King is a perfect disaster capitalists' tool. He sees no value in anything but profit and wealth. He is absolutely convinced that his man-made belief system that the only thing of value in our economy is profit and wealth. The poor have no value. The working class has no value. Manufacturing has no value. Only the profits from these enterprises have value. And no lie is too large, or theft is too small. if the outcome is more profit.

He believes in the free market system if it is:

free of regulation
has no product controls for safety
no environmental regulations
no taxation of wealth
no criminal prosecution for wrong doing

Steve King is a corrupt person, not because of outside influences, but from a lack of any internal moral system of beliefs. And he is absolutely convinced that the problem with America is the poor and working classes.

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. It's time to go on the attack against these stupid bastards.

Lazy and slacker is what I would call someone who gets a job from their daddy's Country Club connections.

[jwirr]

13. "of work age but simply not in the work force". You mean like my

daughter who has been disabled since birth? You mean like the kid down the road who had an accident at work and is not paralyzed? You mean like the man laid off by one of Iowa's packing plants so they can hire illegals? You mean the waitress who was laid off because the customers have quit spending because they do not have money to go out to eat anymore? You mean that owner of that small business that went broke because it does not have customers anymore? You mean the farmer who is losing his farm because of the drought?

This man is a pure idiot and if he represents NE Iowa then how much dumber are the voters in that area?

[KillCapitalism]

15. So he wants to put 80 million people in the workforce?

Uhh yeah, is he just gonna wave his magic wand and *poof* 80 million jobs will materialize in an economy that can barely create 8 jobs right now.

[marmar]

16. Republican election victories are caused by 'a nation of idiots.'

nt

[glinda]

17. They must mean "themselves" because they are rich freeloaders.