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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Everybody out of work is eating, they got big screen tv,
Probably have a car, probably have a cell phone that they're using. Uh and they got a place to live. I mean out of work is not poverty. It is true that the unemployed at eating for 99+ weeks and they're watching big screen TV or some kind of TV."
Who said it?
burnodo
(2,017 posts)Just Saying
(1,799 posts)burnodo
(2,017 posts)trying to extend the mystery
Tikki
(14,557 posts)Tikki
Just Saying
(1,799 posts)Repugs are low, but this is especially low.
Neoma
(10,039 posts)Just Saying
(1,799 posts)That may even be beneath him.
Then again I'm it sure anything is beneath Bill-O
Neoma
(10,039 posts)It just sounds like some idiot on Fox News would say.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)This creepozoid is the defacto head of the GOP now. Everyone is afraid to tell him he's so full of shit that the whites of his eyes are brown!
Just Saying
(1,799 posts)You got it!
Just saw him on Al Sharpton's show (well, on video from Fox, of course) spewing.
Is it worse how much contempt he has for the poor or how completely clueless he is to the reality of being poor? Truly a sick man! And you're right, the right wingers listen more to this disgusting, racist, sexist piece of shit than they do anyone they've elected.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)Just Saying
(1,799 posts)And they'd be mimicking Rush.
I actually heard one of them say "Rush is crazy, but he's usually right."
tridim
(45,358 posts)That one made me laugh!
olddots
(10,237 posts)burnodo
(2,017 posts)Far more powerful than Rinse
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)moondust
(19,988 posts)Yes, Rush, the unemployed need to stop eating so that you don't have to pay taxes.
Just Saying
(1,799 posts)"A festering boil on the ass of humanity".
I love how he criticizes people for having a TV! A car! Food!
think
(11,641 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)living high on the hog without a job etc..
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Probably do have a car because they can't get to the grocery store or the doctor's office without one, and it probably only runs part of the time, they can't afford insurance, and they put $5 of gas in it at a time when desperate.
They probably have a place to love with a leaky roof they can't afford to fix or some other major maintenance issue they can't afford to deal with. Does he expect poor people to live on the street? Because a lot of them do that as well.
Yes people eat. You have to be literally starving to death to be considered poor?
And TVs cost almost nothing. In fact it isn't hard to get a hand-me-down for free.
Just Saying
(1,799 posts)Of being unemployed or underemployed while he's totally clueless and enjoys continuing the GOP talking point of us vs. them, takers vs. makers and the 47%.
Rush and people who follow him think the poor deserve their lot. Instead of being grateful for their own good fortune, they blame others for not having the same.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)We have a 9-year-old car a relative gave us. We have one TV that's 11 years old.
Yeah, buddy, it's the high life.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts).....restaurant for 10 years. Sometimes he has to go to his parents for food. He has broken molars that give him a great deal of pain; he can't afford the dentists bill.
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)NewThinkingChance40
(289 posts)just how far of touch many of these people are. What if you had a great job, nice stuff, then lost your job due to something out of your control? You are apparently supposed to sell everything you own and start all over...
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)Now we would like to find a job so we don't have to sell the TV to buy a burger.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Work for $3 an hour and stuff. Work as servants. Like the good old days.