Win Ben Stein's Wingnut Disdain

Ben Stein on the unemployed:

The people who have been laid off and cannot find work are generally people with poor work habits and poor personalities. I say “generally” because there are exceptions. But in general, as I survey the ranks of those who are unemployed, I see people who have overbearing and unpleasant personalities and/or who do not know how to do a day’s work. They are people who create either little utility or negative utility on the job. Again, there are powerful exceptions and I know some, but when employers are looking to lay off, they lay off the least productive or the most negative. To assure that a worker is not one of them, he should learn how to work and how to get along — not always easy. 

Yeah, the 15 million unemployed and the only 3 million jobs for them?  That's all because the unemployed are lazy.  All the Laffer Curve idiocy in the world doesn't change the fact there's 12 million more unemployed than there are jobs right now and that Republicans think the deficit is more important than putting people to work.  Those are facts, period.

Of course, Wingnuts don't deal in facts.  They deal in turning Americans against one another.