Let Them Eat Want Ads — that is what Greg Sargent has named the GOPers who cluelessly think that the reason why people are unemployed is because they get too many unemployment benefits.
Rollins was at a campaign event in Rehoboth, when she took the opportunity to remind people of how far out of touch one can be when one is accustomed to seeing the world from your porch at Rose Hall. When she was asked by a potential constituent if she would support proposed extensions to unemployment benefits:
“Truthfully I probably, lets see 99 weeks is almost two years. A few weeks shy of two years, 52, 52, 104. Probably at week 80 I would have made sure that everybody got a notice that week 99 was coming and the benefits were going to be done. Um… someone who hasn’t worked in two years, pretty hard to get energized to go back to look for a job. I know that this is a bad market and this is a bad time but you just cannot keep paying people, cannot keep taxing us to pay people to do nothing because they will continue to do nothing for a very long time and I feel we are entitled to a little more than that. Against it.”
You can hear the tape of this answer from Rollins herself here (not-embeddable, I think).
So listen up Delawareans — Michelle Rollins thinks that the reason you are unemployed for almost two years is that you are happy collecting a government check. Not that her party crashed the economy and there are way fewer houses and buildings being constructed; or that manufacturing and retail jobs have disappeared because people are still cautious about buying things. Know that her agenda if elected would be to make sure that the working families hit hard by the repub-engineered recession would be thrown an anchor.
But people who married their money couldn’t possibly grasp the plain idea that no jobs is the reason why so many don’t have jobs. And nor do they know anything about being unemployed, either. Looking for work IS a full time job.