John Boehner: Unemployed Americans Are A Bunch Of Lazy Moochers Who Don't Think They Have To Work

[Cali_Democrat]

John Boehner Says Unemployed People ‘Just Sit Around,’ Don’t Think They Have To Work
BY IGOR VOLSKY

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) seemed to echo Mitt Romney’s infamous claim that 47 percent of Americans are “takers” who suck up government benefits during a speech at a conservative Washington D.C. think tank on Thursday. Addressing the American Enterprise Institute, Boehner suggested that President Barack Obama’s economy has lulled many unemployed people into a sense of dependence on government.

“This idea that has been born, maybe out of the economy over the last couple years, that you know, I really don’t have to work. I don’t really want to do this. I think I’d rather just sit around. This is a very sick idea for our country,” he said.

“If you wanted something you worked for it,” Boehner said, adding, “Trust me, I did it all.”

But the unemployed aren’t jobless because they’re lazy or receive government benefits. Most face huge obstacles to finding good paying jobs in a slow economic recovery.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/09/19/3569632/boehner-unemployed-work/

[liberal N proud]

1. Speaking of lazy moocher...

Doing nothing on our dime.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. I hope he says that again and again and again

real loud, from now to the mid term elections.
And his cronies say it loud with him.

He is doing more for the Dem vote than the Dems are.

DO be sure to share what he said with every one you know.

[yeoman6987]

26. He did not use the words in the title if the article

He did seem to blame the President for unemployment though. Very typical of them.

[Kingofalldems]

49. He said it in so many words.

Nice try.

[SummerSnow]

68. ....

#Boehnerhatestheunemployed


Rethugs don't hide how they feel about the working class do they?

[Scarsdale]

21. Joke

Boozy Johnny seems to forget that WE pay his wages, healthcare and pension costs, while he vacations. He may have "done it all" long ago, but then he hit the jackpot and got on the government teat. That is when he quit doing anything.

[elehhhhna]

27. we pay him over 175K plus etc. for a part time job

Naranjon needs to stfu

[Helen Borg]

43. Poor guy looks overworked :)

[redruddyred]

79. overdrinked, if that's a word.

such is the gossip.

[Release The Hounds]

56. A Warning Please!

[Amonester]

2. Psychological projection from oRangeman...

Surprise surprise!

[sakabatou]

3. Boehner's describing the Republican Congress?

[joeybee12]

4. You drank it all, you mean...

And you well, boinked them all, as you drank and cheated on your wife, you sh*tstain.

[gordianot]

5. Your average lazy moocher works more than Boner.

[Triana]

6. He should stop projecting his issues onto the unemployed.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. Well he would know from lazy mochers....however in this particular case he is WRONG!

These lazy moocher in congress ARE the problem and are unwilling to be part of the solution wrt the unemployed and they know it!

SUCK IT Boehner!

[Jamaal510]

9. Hey, Orange Man,

1. It has been Republican policies (such as blocking a higher minimum wage and jobs bills) that have been keeping people more dependent on government assistance.

2. When you said “if you wanted something you worked for it. Trust me, I did it all.", that is another big fat lie. You guys (House Republicans) work less than half of the year, and have gotten paid 6 figures annually mostly to block important pieces of legislation. The only thing you are good for is projecting. You project your traits (as moochers) onto others.

[Johonny]

10. Upward mobility in America is at an all time low but ignore that and enjoy my strawman argument

[Dirty Socialist]

11. Boehner Loves America

Boehner Hates Americans.

[muntrv]

12. Lazy moochers? Like the teabagger Congress?

[Enthusiast]

13. Fuck John Boehner.

[GoCubsGo]

45. Nope.

Let him go fuck himself.

[AZ Progressive]

14. Yes, tell em Do Nothing Congress!

What a fuckin bunch of hypocrites.

[City Lights]

15. Wonder if he posts at Discussionist.

Lots of people over there say almost the exact same thing.

[Heather MC]

16. Does this AssHat not realize all the jobs got shipped to China?

[craigmatic]

17. The way he said that was fucked up but at the same time I know there are people who do abuse the

system. Then there are the working poor who actually have less than the people on welfare. Personally I think our party should do more for the under employed and working poor. It's the right thing to do and it's good politics because people in poverty don't turn out to vote in as high a rate.

[SorellaLaBefana]

18. More Red States than Blue get more from the govt tit than they contribute

[madokie]

19. Hey peckerhead

why didn't YOU MOOCHING mo'fo's pass a jobs bill? You ignorant bastid, thinking we can't remember why we have so many un and under employed. F* off dude

[Mc Mike]

20. ... Then his Congress adjourns until after the Nov. elections.

[alarimer]

22. Like Congress?

Last time I checked, Boehner doesn't work very much either and still gets paid a small fortune.

[TNNurse]

23. Does he think he is working now?

Maybe he thinks being elected is a form of retirement. Most of us believe he is actually taking money for doing nothing. OK, maybe he is just working to destroy other people who actually work.

If your focus is voting against things that help other Americans, I believe that you are not a good American or even human being.

[sammy750]

24. Work Boehner, How do U know work.

Boehner hasn't done any work since 2010 and being speaker. It almost full time vacation for House members. They are getting paid by the tax payers for no work. All should be impreached for not following the Constitution.

[jmowreader]

71. You can't impeach a congressman

[marble falls]

25. Great footage for his opposition!

[Initech]

28. Congressional Republicans are lazy moochers who don't think they have to do any real work!

Guess it takes one tp know one, right Boehner?

[treestar]

29. If the unemployment rate is high

How can this be so? They don't even listen to themselves.

[czarjak]

30. This from the guy that

Stood on the floor of the House of Representatives and passed out $25,000.00 tobacco lobbyist checks. Pig at the tax payer trough, still. Who says crime doesn't pay? For damn sure not Johnny.

[LiberalAndProud]

31. Cry me a river (again).

[center][font size="4"]John Boehner’s Theory of the Leisure Class[/font][/center]
But what really gets me here is the fact that people like Boehner are so obviously disconnected from the lived experience of ordinary workers. I mean, I live a pretty rarefied existence, with job security and a nice income and a generally upscale social set — but even so I know a fair number of people who have spent months or years in desperate search of jobs that still aren’t there. How cut off (or oblivious) can someone be who thinks that it’s just because they don’t want to work?

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/john-boehners-theory-of-the-leisure-class/

[Phlem]

32. Always and forever an Asshole.

the the R's will always behave this way.

[valerief]

33. Lazy moochers who don't think they have to work. Isn't he talking about Congress? nt

[B Calm]

63. My thoughts too!

[Plucketeer]

34. "John Boehner Says GOP Congresscritters ‘Just Sit Around,’ Don’t Think They Have To Work"

S'what happens when you sit snockered, in front of a mirror.

[Helen Borg]

35. He's employed by us, but...

For sure he he is not working....

[Phlem]

42. Exactly.

There's a lot of people I know personally that don't get that.

[yuiyoshida]

36. I AM SURE he says this while standing there

holding a bottle of scotch, Bourbon or Jack Daniels.. what ever the drink of the day is, for him.

[Rex]

37. And yet off he goes on his 12 vacation!

GOPers are such disgusting creatures.

[oldandhappy]

38. ah yes, moochers

Moochers = congress taking five weeks off and coming back and then taking 8 weeks off. Moochers.

[heaven05]

39. I am so very sick

of the stereotypes(implied, this time)from these RW thugs/pigs. This country is overrun and FULL of pigs. Period. Nazis, fascists, all types of state sanctioned murderous racist pigs overrunning amerikkka, again. These pigs better hope the black and white poor never come together. OOOOPS, MLK was killed for calling for the poor to come together.

[ThoughtCriminal]

40. Funny how there are more unemployed when the GOP is in control

and unemployment drops when Democrats are elected. Republicans must be bad for the national work ethic.

[tavernier]

41. Well, he should know.

He hasn't worked in years.

[father founding]

44. Alcohol Fog

He confused the unemployed with Repuglican Congressmen.

[GoCubsGo]

46. May you wind up in the shoes of those you condemn, Mr. Boehner.

Fuck you, asshole.

[turbinetree]

47. COSTS

This hypocrite just got off of a 6 week vacation, and now he and his hypocrite crew are taking off another 5 weeks.
So 11x7 makes 77 DAYS. NICE huh?
This piece of work is taking from you and me in this society and the Ohioan's out of $220000.00 dollars a year as a government speaker for the DO NOTHING CONGRESS.
Now for the 77 days just in the last two months that works out to be 18,333.00 per month for 30 days.
So, Ohio when you go to the election booth that your sec of state is trying to disenfranchise you from voting in how does it really feel to know that this hypocrite makes this money while you the poor and middle class make on average between 15000 and 85000 per year divided by 2020 hours per year at full time 40 hours per week that works out to $7.45 Per Hour @ (15000 per year) /$42.00 Per Hour @ (85000 per year).
Think its fair?

[Zambero]

48. Was the good Speaker referring to members of Congress?

Oh I guess he wasn't referring to Congress after all. Instead he was referring to people who are willing to perform an honest day's work for far less than Boehner and his cohorts get for doing next to nothing. Except perhaps striving to keep unemployment levels as high as possible and shifting the blame elsewhere, then labeling jobless as "lazy bums".

[BlueMTexpat]

50. This from the leader of the biggest bunch of "employed"

lazy moochers who haven't worked more than a couple weeks ... and all on our dime.

[Submariner]

51. Says the lazy wanker who quit Navy boot camp after six weeks

This non-hacker couldn't handle serving in the military so he wimped out saying his back hurt.

Probably less than 0.1 percent of wimps who bail out of the military do it in the first few weeks.

It's funny how his hurting back does not affect his golf game, which includes a lot of back twisting. What a whiny little wimp he is.

[davidthegnome]

52. Huh...

I think Mr. Boehner should carefully examine that (bullshit) theory. First of all, how much does he think a single unemployed person can get through government benefits? I can tell you, it's not a whole hell of a lot. It's not as much as it should be, either, for people who are desperate and need help. He did it all? Well, he's not doing it now. How hard does he actually "work" for that salary he earns? What is it, two hundred thousand? How many days a year is he actually working? Does it even amount to 40 hours a week?

Rich man makes ridiculous amounts of money for not doing very much... while a poor person receiving state or federal assistance is filling out several applications every week, eventually working for minimum wage, attempting to earn a higher education and being crushed by debt... hmm. Perhaps even being forced to file bankruptcy due to medical debt.

You know what, I think I'd rather sit around. I think I'd rather have Boehner's job than mine, my 32 hours a week at 8.50 an hour keeps me moving all weekend, on my feet, running my ass off to earn that money. I'd happily do HIS job for MY pay and he can do my job for his. We'll see who's more exhausted at the end of the week. Fucking prick.

I don't give a shit what you did, Mr. Boehner. I don't care if you once swept a floor or actually know how to use a mop. What I care about, is that you're a rich, pretentious nitwit with a sense of entitlement. That you seem to think that doing a piss poor job in a really important position somehow gives you the credibility to mock and insult people who are desperately looking for any kind of job at all.

No credibility, no honor, no tact, no common sense, no humility. I don't think Mr. Boehner realizes just how dramatically he fails as a human being.

[nruthie]

53. He would know...

He and his horde of ignorant cronies don't seem to have a problem with mooching. Their work consists of doing no work and sticking out their palms to the highest bidder.

[Arkansas Granny]

54. I would imagine that there are very few people who aspire to spend their lives

at the standard of living afforded by living on government benefits.

[EEO]

55. Most red states take in more money from the federal government than they pay in...

And I don't expect some asshole like Boehner to understand the hardships of people who don't get funded by the rich who taint our political system. I am in and out of regular employment due to health issues, and this asshole would end programs designed to help people like me out (and his unfortunate constituents) because he does not give a shit what trickle down economics does to anyone but the rich. Trickle down economics was debunked decades ago... leave it to poor, ignorant Republicans to support a party that calls the people making all the money "job creators" and blaming "big government" and regulation for not having a job or a well paying job.

[lpbk2713]

57. Boner's one of the biggest deadbeats you'll find anywhere.

He's a rethuglican Congressman.

If he was any less productive he'd be backing up.

[ailsagirl]

70. Think of all the money those morons wasted

by trying to undercut PBO at every turn. What, exactly, are they being paid for?

And they've accomplished nothing. What a disgusting bunch of IDIOTS

[Man from Pickens]

58. I wonder how well Boehner would do in the private sector

he certainly hasn't been there a while

If he was kicked out of office, and wasn't allowed to become an influence peddler, what job could he possibly get? Does he have any actual productive skill?

[SmittynMo]

62. I would love to see the day this happens.

His only option would be to retire early. On the other hand, with all his recognition, I'm sure there's at least 1 far right employer that would love to have him. If for nothing else, just to see him cry.

[Man from Pickens]

67. Banks will probably hire him

for all practical purposes, he's already on their payroll

[blkmusclmachine]

59. 1% to America's workers: "We make money the new fashioned way. We steal it."

[SmittynMo]

60. Trust me, I did it all?

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I have learned over the years, when someone says "trust me", they really mean the opposite. Needless to say, I trust Boner about as far as I can throw my house.

I have been unemployed for over a year now, without any UE benefits. Even after sending thousands of applications to get 1 or 2 interviews, I still have not landed a job. I am a qualified person in the IT field. The REAL problem is I'm 59. After many stories I've read and heard, no one wants a 59 year old in IT. I've also heard that after 40, is when this starts to become an issue.

Am I lazy? NOT!!! So, how dare this SOB say such a thing. We need to vote his ass out of office and all his cronies. I've about had enough of these far right, holier than thou, assh*le republicans.

[Chemisse]

61. Is he taking about 47% of those on Capital Hill?

If so, I agree with him!

[FailureToCommunicate]

64. “Trust me, I did it all.” Here is Boehner working hard at...

working up a big thirst.

[mb999]

65. Where are the jobs?

The Job Creators™ cut down or shipped millions of union jobs overseas. Most of what is left are temporary or minimum wage jobs with no benefits, and those are competitive now. Welcome to the end result of Reaganomics Boehner.

[NastyRiffraff]

66. It worked so well for Mitt Romney

Please proceed, Mr Boehner. The Republican Party needs you just as you are. Really.

[moondust]

69. Maybe the moochers should be required to wear some identification?

Example:

[47of74]

72. Fuck you Mr. Speaker

In fact, double fuck you.

Piece of shit.

[Major Hogwash]

73. We will have a different Speaker in the House of Representatives in January.

Boehner may be re-elected to his seat, but he will not be the Speaker next year.

[Pakid]

74. Hope he remembered to include himself

and all the Republican members of both the House and Senate in that list along with all the lazy worthless rich Republican donors

[father founding]

75. smack.smack

Kissing ass is work ?

[ReRe]

76. I just hope his constitutnts...

... and all the unemployed and under-employed Ohioans hear about his saying this. Asshole.

[Historic NY]

77. Most John are looking for a job that pay 174k plus...

for part time work of a bout 100 or so days a year.

[hfojvt]

78. some of them are

can we admit that?

Most people really ARE lazy, and they like free money.

I, myself, am counting down the days until I can retire. 4 years, 5 months and 22 days until hfojvt is a free man.

And I may shave a year off of that too, depending on the numbers.

[VA_Jill]

80. When was the last time

John Bøner did any work, meaningful or not?

[marias23]

81. Do lotto winners ad the like have to work?

Does he think these people have to work: people living off inheritances or life insurance, divorce settlements, lotto, gambling,etc.