Let them get jobs in cake factories!

Perino Confirms White House Won’t Extend Jobless Benefits, Says People Should Just Find A Job

During today’s press briefing, White House press secretary Dana Perino suggested the Bush administration would oppose any effort to extend jobless benefits — a stance the White House has taken before. She explained their position by saying, “we want people to be able to return to the workplace as soon as possible.” The suggestion was that extending benefits somehow prevents people from returning to work.

She concluded by saying that “the best way to help” the economy and unemployed people is for unemployed people to simply “get back to work.”

Well that's good. Get off your asses lazy workers and go find jobs. Extending you benefits will only keep you from finding work and the only thing keeping you from working is your own blinkered incompetence, not some economic collapse thingy dingy. At least Perino didn't tell them to eat cake or Irish babies or find a magic lamp and wish themselves jobs. Still, maybe it would seem, I don't know, a touch in tune with the needs of the peasants if you could knock a few crusts of bread onto the floor while you and Wall Street go back for seconds at the extra fancy $700 billion buffet you're currently eating at.

Shit, I forgot. Giving workers benefits and safety nets for unemployment is socialism. Nay, communism. Doing it for the financial sector is capitalism. The free market. Ah well. They would have told you to eat cake, but cake is kind of expensive and you don't deserve frosted treats when you can't find work. So....let them eat stale saltine crackers! You poor wretches, find jobs already. Bush is tired of putting up with your unemployed shenanigans.