{"id":31480,"date":"2012-11-25T15:49:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T22:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/25\/coddling-the-slackers.html"},"modified":"2012-11-25T15:49:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T22:49:59","slug":"coddling-the-slackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/25\/coddling-the-slackers.html","title":{"rendered":"Coddling the Slackers"},"content":{"rendered":"

See! Instead of accepting any of those copious, well-paying jobs out there, 2.3 million Americans simply sucked at Uncle Sam's teat and frittered away our hard-earned tax dollars. \u00a0Don't they know there were fruit rotting on the tree in Georgia, waiting for some unemployed aerospace workers and assembly line mechanics to man up and pick them for subsistence wages? \u00a0But no, they'd rather sponge off the "Makers" as they're "Stay Out of Poverty Free" card! \u00a0Shame!<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Zachary Cook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Look at that – a decent unemployment system kept 2.3 million Americans from going into poverty. Another one of those "gifts" that Mitt Romney is talking about, I guess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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See! Instead of accepting any of those copious, well-paying jobs out there, 2.3 million Americans simply sucked at Uncle Sam's teat and frittered away our hard-earned tax dollars. \u00a0Don't they know there were fruit rotting on the tree in Georgia, waiting for some unemployed aerospace workers and assembly line mechanics to man up and pick … Continue reading “Coddling the Slackers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8481,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/01\/shocking_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":31480,"position":0},"title":"Shocking","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Nov-05 12:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Those evil blog-reading workers are hurting US productivity! 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