Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV): Is the government creating ‘hobos’ with unemployment benefit extensions?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Dean Heller: Is the government creating ‘hobos’ with benefit extensions?

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/feb/23/heller-government-creating-hobos/



By Lisa Mascaro

Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 | 3:11 p.m.

Washington — Republican Rep. Dean Heller wonders if the government creating a new generation of “hobos.”

Heller told a weekend crowd at the Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner in Elko that Washington’s efforts to continue extending unemployment benefits for jobless Americans may be creating a dependent class, unable to get back to work, according to the Elko Daily Free Press.

“Is the government now creating hobos?” Heller asked.

From the Elko paper:

Heller said the current economic downturn and policies may bring back the hobos of the Great Depression, people who wandered the country taking odd jobs.

He said a study found that people who are out of work longer than two years have only a 50 percent chance of getting back into the workforce.

“I believe there should be a federal safety net,” Heller said, but he questioned the wisdom of extending unemployment benefits yet again to a total of 24 months, which Congress is doing.

[truebrit71]

1. I have an idea...let's make this fucker unemployed this fall...

..and see what he thinks then...

[HughBeaumont]

2. Uh, NO shitstain . . . *YOUR PARTY* created "hobos" . . . what is this, 1954?

Aiding and abetting war criminals and corporate armed robbers does that to an economy.

Oh, and incidentally, human chin, you ARE the government.

[Lindsay]

3. Just in case you thought

they couldn't get any dumber....

[cutlassmama]

4. or any lower

[Missy Vixen]

5. OMG.

If the constituents who elected this SOB do not have some kind of recall effort going by sundown today, they deserve whatever they get.

People this stupid should not be allowed to serve in elected office.

:mad:

[fascisthunter]

6. the asshole sociopath would rather see them all die

may he be jobless and homeless one day, he deserves it.

[Bitwit1234]

7. Those unemployed would gladly accept his salary.

Then he could file for unemployment.

[WI_DEM]

8. I wonder if this clown has ever had a real job?

[customerserviceguy]

9. Well, he does seem to be hobophobic...

:spank: Sorry, couldn't resist!

[Hello_Kitty]

10. KISS MY HOBO ASS YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!

:grr: