Rand Paul To Unemployed: Quit Whining And Get Back To Work (AUDIO)

This fool can't sympathize with anyone going through something he hasn't experienced himself. Typical conservative. He hasn't the first idea of what unemployed people do to find work, and has no interest in finding out if his first assumption is right.

Shut up and get back to work. I hope the Dems in Kentucky are thanking him for more ammunition.

Definitely out of touch, but also the result of a silverspoon in his mouth for his whole life.

Wonder if he understands that if some of these people take lower paying jobs, and loose the unemployment they have that we will see another wave of foreclosures?

Most people on unemployment have worked more than 99 weeks which is the maximum right now. So, let's say you've been working for 20 years straight at the same job or several different ones. Each week for 20 years the government takes out taxes for unemployment insurance. Now, because of Republican policies, as we saw during Bush's 8 years many of us were laid off. These same GOPer and a few idiot Blue Dogs think it's OK to cut you off because the jobs haven't come back? I say the bastards should do the responsible thing and extend Unemployment Benefits at least another 6 months! It's my money, not some hand out!

He knows what it feels like to be piled on...yup

Rand Paul is a breath of fresh air in American politics! When will Rand cut loose once and for all from the GOP homogenization machine that is trying to prevent him from speaking the truth to the American public about the great issues of the day? At last a new political voice summoning America to face up to the hard choices facing us in today's world. Rand knows that there comes a time when real Americans have to stand on their own two feet and stop putting their hand out endlessly for government handouts.

The GOP is all about "tough love", well, minus the love part anyway.

says the doctor son of a congressman

Earth to Paul---THERE ARE NO F---ING JOBS--high paying---low paying---no paying---NO F---ING JOBS.

Dems should threaten to cut Rand Paul's bread and butter and see how he handles that.

it may be one of the tough love things that has to happen

You and your family may go homeless, but only because we love you.

When did the American Nightmare replace the American Dream? Why braindead Dems can't attack these folks as destroyers of the American middle class is beyond me

The arrogance of this man to just presume that the 15 million unemployed people are not taking jobs as they come available. As if taking a handout is not one of the hardest and most depressing acts in most people lives, especially when you've been working for your entire life and have a family to support.

Forgetting the fact that far too many of the job losses are not to do the natural employment cycle but are instead due to the reckless and deliberate acts of irresponsible banks and financiers, it is incredibly INEFFICIENT for highly skilled people to work for minimum wages instead of high value added professions that they are qualified for. As many people have pointed out, most employers are not going to hire some former VP of marketing to flip burgers.

And, how does Mr. Paul think these people are going to pay their mortgages on minimum wages? Because that's all we need right now, more mortgage defaults.

What makes Mr. Paul think the unemployed are turning down jobs waiting for better offers with more paid, doesn't he know unemployment only pays a part of your former pay. I don't know of any jobs going unfilled because the American worker is living high off of unemployment. I hope the voters of KY let him stay in the job that he has now.

Mr. McMorris-Santoro:

It's not $120 billion in jobless benefit extensions. It's a $120 jobs package that includes "...tax credit extensions, jobless benefits, and aid to cash-strapped states for Medicaid", to quote Fox News.

Yes, because the option is that there IS a job to get. Moron.

Idiot. My father has maxed out his unemployment benefits after the entire department of which he was the head was closed. He HAS taken any job he could to get to help make ends meet: he's sold cars, tended bar, installed garage doors, mowed lawns, etc. But there's tons of people competing for every menial job, and it's hard to get hired as an overqualified man in your fifties.

Then, a new auto plant opened in his area, promising jobs in exchange for tax breaks, but, instead of using local companies to design and build the plant (his field of expertise), they trucked in cheap immigrant labor and hired a European firm for the design. They then promised they'd hire the main work force from the area, so he swallowed his pride and went back to community college (keep in mind that he has a college degree and professional certification) to learn machine tooling. But that promise isn't panning out either.

The bottom line is this: instead of blaming the participants, it's time to start looking at the problems in the system that have gotten us to where we are. We need a modernized "new deal" for this century.

Hmmm.... and employees accepting less money for the same work... who does that benefit, again?

The unemployed should form a phony board to certify themselves in their desired professions.

It may be true that unemployment benefits last for a shorter time period in Europe, but it is also true that nobody loses their health care when they lose their job either. We'd probably be amazed at the flowering of small, independent businesses if we just took care of people's health care needs whether they have a job or not. Why is that not a right? Do we tell the unemployed that their kids can't go to school now because they have no job, or that the police won't come to their house to investigate a burglary or the fire department won't put out a fire, because they don't have a job?

It would be much easier I think to tell people to find a job, any job, if they had some of the basics covered, as they do in Europe. It is true though that you can make unemployment too generous. There are folks in Europe who would just as soon stay unemployed, as the benefits are quite generous on the dole.

"As bad as it sounds, ultimately we do have to sometimes accept a wage that's less than we had at our previous job in order to get back to work..."

Really? Genius! Wish I'd thought of that. Oh, wait, I did.

What an asshole.

I'm not a Rand Paul supporter nor a TPer, but I do have a question for everyone bashing him and this latest statement:

What is the answer then?

Clearly, there is simply not enough work to employ everyone that needs it at the income level they need. Sure, this is of our own doing over many years, but it seems that to say he's "out of touch" oversimplifies what we can actually do under the circumstances.

How long can the country support everyone while they wait for a job that pays what they need? Can we just keep borrowing while jobs keep disappearing? We can't seem to replace them at the rate they are being lost so it seems to be a losing battle.

Even the smartest progressive solutions need money we don't really have, but can't afford not to spend.

Everyone can keep bashing him, but he seems to have at least one of the pragmatic points of view. We'll have to make the best choice we have available according to our own circumstances.

I'm just a guy, but it seems to me there are not really a lot of good choices at the moment.

So if he lost all his Medicare and Medicaid money, would he then, perhaps understand what would happen if he, as a "highly trained" professional suddenly lost a huge chunk of his income as a way to get the economy moving again?

What he seems to forget is business isn't hiring, PERIOD! Next he will say that if all those damn illegal's weren't here, all the Americans would do those low wage jobs. He seems to overlook the "very small fact" that even low wage jobs take training. Even burger joints have safety standards and regulations, I suppose he wants those to end as well, as they take away from the business!

One can only hope that voters in KY are listening to how he will put their jobs in jeopardy....for the good of the economy. One wonders what he pays his office staff and nurses - minimum wage?

the gift that keeps on giving.

"As bad as it sounds, ultimately we do have to sometimes accept a reimbursement that's less than we had previously in order to get the country back on track..."

Rand Paul's opening address at the annual convention of his own medical certification board. NOT!

Gee, Rand, I know it's the right thing to do, to take what's available rather than holding out for that job that pays as well as your old one. But, those unemployment benefits are just so generous. Who wouldn't want to just keep collecting unemployment checks forever?

Ya clueless a-hole.

"In what conceivable way is that controversial?"
True enough, really, Paul's answer to unemployment is for people not to be unemployed. The same hard-headed logic can fix the oil spill - the fix for that is for there not to be an oil spill. This is pretty basic, people.

Yeah, BP. Stop whining and pay for fucking up the Gulf. Jebus, these corporations are such fucking WHINERS!

Stop whining and GIVE BACK your payments from Medicare v& Medicaid, Dr. Paul!

And see your income drop by half.

Could you still pay your bills?

And this is the "libertarian" who endorses no changes to Medicare or Medicaid because doctors should be able to make a living. Hypocrit of the first order!

Dude knows whereof he speaks. Now that everyone knows he's certified by Randy's Cut-Rate Ophthalmology Certifyin' Board, he'll make even less when he returns to work after losing his Senate bid.

Locking in the Baby Boomers' votes, are you Randall? They're getting laid off after years of service at lots of companies. Good luck getting anything that pays the bills

That should make 420,344 people very unhappy(total population of KY is 4,041,769 with 10.4% unemployed)...hope they are all registered to vote.

Doesn't Rand remember what he said about illegal immigrants: "They take our jobs" and other malarkey? Of course not because Rand Paul is non compos mentis. He simply does not have a clue and he is running for public office. He and Bunning make a great pair...there is not even a half-wit between the two of them

When he opens his mouth, have the honey bucket ready 'cuz that's all that will pass thru his lips.)

I'll bet he has still got his good paying job and is not willing to take the pay cut that he expects me to take. No thanks, there is already a guy in the white house with his head in the clouds. Why would we want another one?
Maybe one day we'll get a guy that knows the awful reality of hunger with no next meal in sight. I aint holding my breath though.

Does RP take chickens and other livestock (or their parts) for payment...like before WWII? (His words.)

Said the man with the hair weaved into a thinning do.

Guys will leave their hair "messy looking" to make it harder to spot the obvious signs of this, and it works. People just notice his hair is a mess, not the incongruent nature of it as it is.

The presidential ticket that Repugnicans dare not speak - Paul/Paul 2012. Who is on top? It doesn't matter, because either way it would be the end of the Republican party as we know it.

My husband isn't too proud to take a lower paying job and would be grateful for the opportunity. However, no matter how many minimum wage jobs he applies for, no one is going to hire a man in his 60's when they can get a young person for the same amount.

A job is more than money; it's a measure of self worth and right now, my husband could really use some. Comments like Paul makes do not help the situation at all. Some of those who have jobs don't seem to think those without them are even human.