Should those whose unemployment benefits are about to expire stop whining and pull themselves up by their?

Question

bootstraps?

Conservatives, what advice would you offer to someone who has been laid off and benefits are about to expire?

Answer 1

We have no bootstraps to pull on the free market has taken them away and sold them.

Answer 2

The Republican minority in the United States Senate is determined to impose severe fiscal austerity on the country, at a time when doing so is certain to create more drastic hardship and push the economy back into another deep recession.



http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/opinion/28krugman.html?ref=paulkrugman

Answer 3

get off the personal reponsibility bs. If anyone really believes that people who are unemployed are on some sort of permanent vacation, they need to stop sipping the kool aid. I was recently unemployed, and made HALF of my original pay. Do you think I and others enjoy sitting around not being able to feed our famillies?

Answer 4

UGH!! I hate people who say things like that!! Some people CANT do anything. There aren't any jobs right now.

Answer 5

What do you propose if there are no jobs?

Answer 6

Please don't show your ignorance. It appears that you believe only Liberals are unemployed.

Answer 7

I'm not a con, but I'd say "Get a job, bum."