Fox's Varney On Furloughed Federal Employees: "I Want To Punish These People"

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Fox Business host Stuart Varney believes that the ongoing government shutdown, while presenting no real threat to the economy, offers an opportunity to "punish" federal workers for "living on our backs."

On the October 2 edition of AM 560's The Big John & Amy Show, co-hosts John Howell and Amy Jacobson interviewed Fox Business' Stuart Varney and asked him about the government shutdown and its effect on workers and the economy. Varney stated, incorrectly, that the shutdown was not having an impact on financial markets or the greater economy before launching into a tirade against federal employees. When asked if federal employees deserved to be recompensed for lost wages during the shutdown, Varney had this to say:

HOWELL: Do you think that federal workers, when this ends, are deserving of their back pay or not?

VARNEY: That is a loaded question isn't it? You want my opinion? This is President Obama's shutdown. He is responsible for shutting this thing down; he's taken an entirely political decision here. No, I don't think they should get their back pay, frankly, I really don't. I'm sick and tired of a massive, bloated federal bureaucracy living on our backs, and taking money out of us, a lot more money than most of us earn in the private sector, then getting a furlough, and then getting their money back at the end of it. Sorry, I'm not for that. I want to punish these people. Sorry to say that, but that's what I want to do.

After co-host Amy Jacobson responded that "it's not the federal employees' fault" and that she hates to see them victimized by a political fight, Varney complained that in "the big picture" he is "getting screwed" by government workers who are "living large"

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/03/foxs-varney-on-furloughed-federal-employees-i-w/196261

Despicable person

[louis-t]

1. Repugs gotta punish people.

Cuz, God talks to them, y'know, and .........BENGHAZI.

[joeybee12]

2. How ironic...I really want to punish these people too...

By those people, though, I mean anyone associated with FUX Noise.

[pscot]

3. Varney has a net worth in excess of $10 million

so there probably aren't a lot of federal workers earning more than he is.
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/dl/stuart-varney-net-worth/

[Blaukraut]

4. Fuck Varney and his 7 houses!

http://robbreport.com/Travel/The-Robb-Reader-Stuart-Varney

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And you have property elsewhere.
I’ve got single-family homes in California and in Naples and Orlando, Florida. Our primary home is in Bergen County, New Jersey. We’ve also got a family farm in New Zealand and a very nice house in Adelaide, Australia, which is near the wine country where my son works. When I travel now, I’m far more interested in Australia and New Zealand, and that’s not just because I’ve got family there. I’m especially intrigued by Western Australia, which is a gigantic area rich with natural resources and totally empty of people. I think of it as one of the last frontiers anywhere. I’m intrigued by wide-open spaces, an absence of people, and a sort of get-up-and-go frontier mentality. - See more at: http://robbreport.com/Travel/The-Robb-Reader-Stuart-Varney#sthash.iSNqf5Wn.dpuf

Unlike him, Fed employees actually contribute something to society other than hot air and a giant carbon footprint!

[Roland99]

8. Holy Crap...what a revealing quote this is >>>>>

"intrigued by Western Australia, which is a gigantic area rich with natural resources and totally empty of people"


He just wants to rape the land of its resources so he can make more money. He's probably already setting the stage.

[RavensChick]

10. This sick fuck

has 7 houses and he's got the nerve to say Federal employees are living large??

Not all of us! I'm a federal employee and damn proud of it! Even though I'm at a GS-6 level (which barely covers my monthly expenses), I haven't had a promotion since 2009, had my pay frozen since 2010, and I've been working at USDA for 10 years, 4 months, and almost 3 weeks. So, for him to say we're living large is BULLSHIT!

And yes, we contribute time, patience, quality customer service, professionalism, and a LOT of humility every.single.day we're on the job. So he can take his 7 houses and ram it!!!

That is all.

[abelenkpe]

16. Wow. Nt

[winter is coming]

5. Government workers "live large"?

Not only is it bullshit, that's pretty rich coming from a talking head.

[demwing]

6. If Varney truly believes this, he's a mean idiot

but if he's saying it merely to increase FOX's ratings, well then he's just fucking EVIL - a man without a soul, selfish to the core, and willing to sell off anything and anyone, including whatever value system he might privately adhere to, just to enrich his financial standing.

Some people would leave the world a better place if they just had a heart attack and dropped dead on the spot.

[wickerwoman]

7. I hope Fox gets an absolute avalanche of emails and calls

from Pentagon and Treasury employees. Many federal employees are republicans and I'd guess a fair few of them watch Fox. Regardless, part of civil servants' job description is to be non-partisan which of course Stuart Varney knows because wasn't he one of the lead pitchfork holders when the IRS was "targetting" tea party organisations?

And frankly, Stuart, if you think the taxes are too high here, you're welcome to fuck off back to England any time you like.

[alsame]

9. Can we deport this

vile asshole?

[RavensChick]

12. I can start the paperwork.

Of course, with these pricks, money talks and bullshit walks.

[wickerwoman]

14. Too bad INS is furloughed.

[Ratty]

11. And yet I can picture it

Right wing Republican federal workers will listen to this and think, he's not talking about me. He means those *other* freeloaders.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Says the man with seven homes and a ten million net worth

[abelenkpe]

15. So ugly

Why do we give such I'll informed mean people air time? It's shameful.

[kydo]

17. I think this scrooge is confusing federal employees with

Independent contractors and those big contractors like Halliburton. Those are the people that have been living off the backs of tax payers for decades. Of course rummy slimmed the military down when he was sec of def under that letter for an appointed prez. But when he slimmed it down all he did was take money the defense spent by using lots of their own to do the jobs and out sourced it to his cronies.

[Drahthaardogs]

18. This needs to go viral. Too many Feds LOVE them some Fox News.

I need a nice little concise video I can post everywhere please.