If that Kentucky Senate seat swings blue in November, the man that will have likely made that possible will be...Rand Paul: the gift that keeps on giving. When asked about his feelings on Senate Republicans blocking $120 million in aid to the unemployed, Dr. Paul had some pointed advice for the 10+ million Americans that are currently unemployed (keeping in mind that for every 5 unemployed Americans currently there is only 1 job to compete for):
"Accept a wage that's less than [you] had at [your] previous job" and "get back to work." Straight from the horse's mouth...
What's amazing about this and other similarly-worded statements from those on the far-right (now the mainstream Republican Party) is how it really reveals what they think of the unemployed: they despise them. Righties think that the unemployed really, really want to just sit around and accept government handouts for the rest of their lives. And they don't bother to differentiate between the real deadbeats that do exist in our society that leech off of our welfare system and the OVERWHELMING majority of job seekers just looking to get their dignity back and earn an honest, respectable wage for honest, respectable work: if you're unemployed, you must be a lazy deadbeat societal leech. The American right as done everything in their power to demonize the long-term unemployed regardless of the reason that they're unemployed. Can't find a job? Tough shit, starve! You probably did it to yourself anyways.
And why? Well, you can't have a system that is completely and utterly dominated by corporations (read: fascism) without creating a permanent underclass that is hopelessly dependent on those who horded all the wealth for themselves: decimate the middle class and drive once-prosperous citizens en masse into wage slavery. Is this the future the right wants for America?
