I bet you guys already knew that, though, huh?
Ryan Grim:
Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Republican whip, argued that unemployment benefits dissuade people from job-hunting "because people are being paid even though they're not working."
Unemployment insurance "doesn't create new jobs. In fact, if anything, continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work," Kyl said during debate over whether unemployment insurance and other benefits that expired amid GOP objections Sunday should be extended.
Senator Kyl, quite disrespectfully, you are a fucking idiot.
Do you have any clue what it's like to be out of work? To be unemployed? To be just this side of homeless? No, of course you don't. Your dad was a politician as well, wasn't he? You were born with a freaking bronze-plated spoon in your mouth.
So you say stupid shit like this ... :
"I'm sure most of them would like work and probably have tried to seek it, but you can't argue that it's a job enhancer. If anything, as I said, it's a disincentive. And the same thing with the COBRA extension and the other extensions here," said Kyl.
... and then probably wonder why your constituents don't get you.
You're a crooked bastard, man. How DARE you tell American citizens that, oh I'm sorry, you can't have any money for food? Or for your utilities? Screw your phone! That's just not happening. Heat? Eff you! That's a goddamned luxury, and you should learn to live without, because this is all your fault for being unemployed!
Why would you do that, right? You used to be a lobbyist, didn't you? You could give a crap about regular, working-class people.
Over the years Sen. Kyl has relied on law and lobby firms – Kyl is a former lobbyist himself – and ideological organizations, the Club for Growth in particular, for big dollar donation events. During the last cycle, Kyl was aided by a fly-in visit from President Bush where Viad Corp. employees showered the Senator with over $30,000 in contributions. Viad Corp. teamed up with the law/lobby firm Snell & Wilmer, which employs no less than 4 former Kyl employees, to sponsor another event that brought in the big bucks for Kyl.
That's a total shock, I know. "Jon Kyl is a dick" = "water is wet" for the majority of people reading this article. Lobbyist, senator from Arizona, whatever.
What's more is that, not surprisingly, Senator Kyl is a huge friend to banks and to Wall Street. In fact:
Senator Obstruction, Jon Kyl, is behind the Senate opposition to the bankruptcy mortgage "cramdown" provision approved by the House earlier this year but tabled in the Senate, which is being revived in the House. House Democrats eye 'cramdown' measure for regulatory reform bill - TheHill.com and in the Senate by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL). Senator Obstruction is also cutting deals with the banks that had to be bailed out by U.S. taxpayers with TARP funds to block any banking regulatory reforms that would prevent it from happening again.
The dude has (along with that perpetual eyesore, Lindsey Graham [R-Sarah Connor) even sullied SCOTUS, on at least one occasion.
In February 2006, Kyl and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) cited a conversation regarding the Detainee Treatment Act in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court. The conversation, however, had never actually taken place. Rather, it was inserted into the official Congressional Record after the debate had concluded. In July 2006, the Supreme Court noted the unspoken conversation in it’s decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. Justice John Paul Stevens remarked, "Those statements appear to have been inserted in the Congressional Record after the Senate debate." On July 6, 2006, Kyl defended his actions, arguing that legislators frequently insert material into the record following a debate.
Even that complete tool Max Baucus couldn't stand up for Jon Kyl today, what with his ranting and raving about how people with very little money want to earn, ya know, a little more money. Not to pay for a pool at their Hollywood mansion, mind you, but just to feed their kids. From the Grim article:
"The Senator from Arizona argues that unemployment insurance is a disincentive to jobs. Nothing could be further from the truth. I don't know anybody who's out of work and is receiving some unemployment insurance believes that that payment is sufficient not to find a job. The payments are so much lower than any salary or wage would be, it's just ridiculous. I might add, there are five unemployed Americans today for every job opening in the economy," said Baucus, chairman of the Finance Committee. "People are looking for work. They're not unemployed because of choice."
I never thought I'd say this, but thank you! Max Baucus! Also, what's wrong with you? I'm not used to standing up for you. I may have to take my own temperature.
Anyway, Senator Kyl is still an old, white, conservative idiot. Same shit, different day.
Back to Grim and Kyl:
"What I said is true and if my colleague could find a source that says it's not true, then please show me. But providing unemployment benefits does not create jobs," he said, though Baucus had already directed him to the CBO analysis.
Oh yay, you stupid fucking asshole. Can I set up a tent in your beautiful Arizona backyard or what?
Also, would you mind if I verbally abused you for awhile?!