Despicable.

“It’s the same folks who say America is a the greatest country on Earth, that its people are exceptional and destined, who talk about how special we are as a people, invariably they are the first to turn on their neighbors and say “I don’t care if there’s not any jobs out there, go paint fences and collect aluminum cans. I’m not helping you. Get a job you lazy bastard.”

The deficit numbers are just an excuse to heap more misery upon the unemployed. That’s because a lot of people in Krugman’s first two categories believe everyone who is unemployed still must be lazy, or trying to scam the system, or trying to fleece them personally. It’s a depressingly cynical worldview, and in reality that’s just covering up for fears of something far more nasty: that everyone who’s still unemployed by this point is shall we say of a certain ethnic background.”

And what “ethnic background” would that be you racist assclown? Some of us have been unemployed long-term, I doubt you know the meaning of the word. Yes, unemployment is rough, and I’ve been long term unemployed. Yet I realized – as is fact – that extended long term unemployment does nothing except to extend long term unemployment.

I have worked with the unemployed and you can group them into three groups.

1. The unemployable – mental illness/drug, alcohol abuse.

2. The under trained – training helps fix that.

3. The lazy.

You would be amazed how in my experienced the last was a huge number. Nevertheless MOST people CAN be employed if they apply themselves. I didn’t have many skills that were marketable in a civilian world when I got out of the military 20 years ago. But I sought training, flipped hamburgers, sold ceiling fans, and whatever I had to do to get by. By the way unemployment benefits for veterans in 1989 was 13 weeks. I got by.

Krugman, like a lot of liberals, are quick to use the “R” label when referring to conservatives. But that’s only a reflection of their own tendencies and prejudices.

I could go on about Krugman’s dishonesty and character defects but Newsbusters does a nice job of exposing his idiocy.