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(Washington Post) Interesting Actual headline: "Why won't Obama give you a job?" Yeah, what's up with that?   (washingtonpost.com) divider line 84
More: Interesting, Obama, information technology, make work, Recovery Act, political risks, food stamps, Larry Summers, Sen. Jack Reed  
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SwiftFox [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 08:37:40 AM  
He's not socialist enough

 
FlashHarry [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 08:46:26 AM  
ooh! ooh! i know the answer to this one! "because he's not a farking socialist!"

 
Dancin_In_Anson [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 09:25:12 AM  

 
ChickenTits 2009-11-07 09:48:31 AM  
You know who else wouldn't give you a job?

 
HotWingConspiracy [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 09:52:09 AM  
Because we totally hosed the interview.

 
netcentric 2009-11-07 09:52:31 AM  
Will he give me a 'shout out' for not winning the Congressional Medal of honor ?

 
nugz4lunch 2009-11-07 09:53:24 AM  
Because I'm a lazy piece of sh*t?

 
Marla Singer's Laundry [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 09:54:07 AM  
Clearly he's history's greatest monster.

 
AngryDragon 2009-11-07 09:54:15 AM  
Because YOU haven't done your part!

www.reconnections.net

 
Splinshints [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 09:56:54 AM  
I don't know how to answer questions in fark headlines unless someone puts them in multiple choice format.

 
Vangor [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 09:58:47 AM  
Yo dawg, we heard you like stability in your economy so we put a job in your market so you can work while you hopefully provide health coverage for your entire family!

 
Farker Soze 2009-11-07 10:00:42 AM  
It's because I'm a registered sex offender, isn't it? I've served my time, why won't you stop punishing me???

 
InmanRoshi 2009-11-07 10:04:25 AM  
Behold, teh librulz media.

 
EmployeeOfTheMinute 2009-11-07 10:07:22 AM  
We gonna look after him, and he gonna look after us...
Right?

 
Emposter 2009-11-07 10:07:41 AM  
Farker Soze: It's because I'm a registered sex offender, isn't it? I've served my time, why won't you stop punishing me???

Why do you keep begging to be punished?

 
Lumi 2009-11-07 10:13:29 AM  
SwiftFox: He's not socialist enough

Intriguingly, that's exactly what the piece says.

Not only is Obama not socialist enough in that he should be paying people not to work, he ought to be socialist like the Germans.

And I'm not EVEN going to touch my wonder at why socialist European models of health insurance are evil but socialist European models of paying people not to work are amazing and to be copied.

The WSJ. Making my neck hurt with the vacillating and the whiplashing.

 
InmanRoshi 2009-11-07 10:16:44 AM  
Keep Gubment Out of My Unemployment Payments!!!!

 
Oakenshield 2009-11-07 10:17:14 AM  
I'm not in a demographic minority?

 
Cake Hunter [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 10:18:14 AM  
because despite my direct appeal on the House floor, apparently the position of Pizza Czar was already taken.

 
Crude 2009-11-07 10:18:28 AM  
Yeah. Umm. The article is from the Washington Post (not exactly a right wing newspaper), and they quote critics from the Left:

The administration is "scared of [any plans] seeming like old-fashioned make-work, but that's what it is: You're giving [people] jobs because they have nothing left to do," said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a left-leaning think thank. "Giving people a shot at a job has to be worth a little bad publicity . . . but as in a lot of areas, they proved more cautious."

But the politically blindly stupid Mods set the always accurate PITA thermometer at Fascist (which only further proves their own political stupidity since right wingers are not fascist).

The criticism is coming from the LEFT. You might want to read an article beyond the headline some time. Assuming you aren't too ignorant to do so (which I am assuming).

 
McManus_brothers [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 10:20:17 AM  
Seriously, WTF is this guy's problem?

 
maxx2112 2009-11-07 10:23:47 AM  
Yeah, my wife lost her job, and now all she does is lay about the house . . . give her a job now, you fark!

(Okay, she lost her job yesterday, and she always lays about the house . . . but still . . . Job! Now! You fark!)



/ got need for a layabout bank executive vice president?
// i know where you can one . . . cheap!

 
randomjsa 2009-11-07 10:37:49 AM  
Hey I'd work for Obama, why not? I disagree with the man on virtually every level but working in DC for awhile might be interesting.

Amusing Fact: If the President might be in your particular area the Secret Service will visit the local hospital and will hand pick each person that might have to be involved in any kind of examination. Naturally in the x-ray department they picked the old guy who had been working there and doing x-rays for 30+ years.

This was all long before I worked there, Clinton was president at the time.

 
mobile_home_refush 2009-11-07 10:39:02 AM  
cuz he is racist and he won't hire fat lazy white women who are uneducated and missing a front tooth!

 
Blathering Idjut 2009-11-07 10:40:02 AM  
Crude: But the politically blindly stupid Mods set the always accurate PITA thermometer at Fascist (which only further proves their own political stupidity since right wingers are not fascist).

They're not Fascist YET.

 
lelio 2009-11-07 10:43:25 AM  
Because you don't have a lobbying group behind you?

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 10:45:23 AM  
Hopey change..mmm mmm mmm.

 
Shrugging Atlas 2009-11-07 10:47:06 AM  
I dont' know. I even painted my resume on my car and he STILL hasn't hooked me up! WTF!

 
thatmanfromtexas 2009-11-07 10:52:31 AM  
maxx2112: Yeah, my wife lost her job, and now all she does is lay about the house . . . give her a job now, you fark!

(Okay, she lost her job yesterday, and she always lays about the house . . . but still . . . Job! Now! You fark!)

/ got need for a layabout bank executive vice president?
// i know where you can one . . . cheap!


The problem is you are not a Go-Getter... Get the wife a job.... take her to work... Go Get Her... :D

She's not alone though... from that right wing rag New York Times;

In all, more than one out of every six workers - 17.5 percent - were unemployed or underemployed in October. The previous recorded high was 17.1 percent, in December 1982.

This includes the officially unemployed, who have looked for work in the last four weeks. It also includes discouraged workers, who have looked in the past year, as well as millions of part-time workers who want to be working full time.


Link to NYTimes

 
hej 2009-11-07 10:53:23 AM  
Because he's only been in office 10 months.

 
The Angry Hand of God 2009-11-07 10:53:39 AM  
Because I'm not lazy and already have one?

 
BMulligan 2009-11-07 10:54:45 AM  
I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure Bush sabotaged me with a bad reference.

 
randomjsa 2009-11-07 10:55:47 AM  
Blathering Idjut: They're not Fascist YET.

Fascism is an antithesis of right.

 
I Invented Crack 2009-11-07 10:56:26 AM  
Because I'm Glenn Beck? I have some unresolved allegations about my actions in regards to a certain rape and murder in 1990?

 
DeadZone 2009-11-07 10:56:33 AM  
Well, how much did YOU give to his campaign? Hell, an ambassadorship is half a million, and that's for some crappy country.

 
hubiestubert [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 10:57:19 AM  
Dude, you want a job?

Earn it.

 
Opiate of the Lasses 2009-11-07 10:57:28 AM  
Why won't Obama stop leaving the cap off the toothpaste?

 
Aidan [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 10:58:08 AM  
So I'm lost. Is there some kind of Right-Wing Miss Manners for these situations? When do I pull myself up by my bootstraps, and when do I whine about Obama not handing me a job?

 
LewDux 2009-11-07 11:02:41 AM  
's

 
NeverDrunk23 2009-11-07 11:07:03 AM  
Opiate of the Lasses: Why won't Obama stop leaving the cap off the toothpaste?

He always leaves the toilet seat up.

BASTARD!!!

 
Shrugging Atlas 2009-11-07 11:14:54 AM  
Aidan: So I'm lost. Is there some kind of Right-Wing Miss Manners for these situations? When do I pull myself up by my bootstraps, and when do I whine about Obama not handing me a job?

I can't be certain, but I think pulling oneself up by their bootstraps may now be Socialist as well, as the end result would be helping the nation as a whole which is not OK during years a Democrat is in power.

Is there a Fark Independent available that can give us a ruling please?

 
save russian jews 2009-11-07 11:17:31 AM  
I've been asking him for WEEKS and he still has yet to give me a job!

/is Charles Guiteau
/not really

 
SusanIvanova [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 11:24:25 AM  
Crude: But the politically blindly stupid Mods set the always accurate PITA thermometer at Fascist (which only further proves their own political stupidity since right wingers are not fascist).

And left wingers are not commies. And those knees are really quite acceptable and you would, in fact, hit that.

 
Exodus2001 2009-11-07 11:27:06 AM  
President Palin would have drilled us out of this mess months ago. Obama is a failure.

 
Emposter 2009-11-07 11:31:25 AM  
Exodus2001: President Palin would have drilled us out of this mess months ago. Obama is a failure.

I for one support Palin's plan to exploit federal preserves in order to drill for bootstraps.

 
winterwhile 2009-11-07 11:31:34 AM  
unemployment at 10.2

no problem, Chairman Obama has o n l y been in office for 10 months

none of his policies actually well w o r k

no problem, Chairman Obama has o n l y been in office for 10 months

 
Emposter 2009-11-07 11:33:07 AM  
winterwhile: unemployment at 10.2

no problem, Chairman Obama has o n l y been in office for 10 months

none of his policies actually well w o r k

no problem, Chairman Obama has o n l y been in office for 10 months


Is something wrong with your keyboard, citizen?

 
winterwhile 2009-11-07 11:35:26 AM  
Arabs hate the USA

no problem, Chairman Obama has o n l y been in office for 10 months

Losing a war in Afgainstain

no problem, Chairman Obama has o n l y been in office for 10 months

Lost 2 big elections... in a big way

no problem, Chairman Obama has o n l y been in office for 10 months

 
winterwhile 2009-11-07 11:37:05 AM  
has a majority in congress, can't seem to get his health care bill passed

no problem, Chairman Obama has o n l y been in office for 10 months

spending levels at an all time high

no problem, Chairman Obama has o n l y been in office for 10 months

tea party's everywhere

no problem, Chairman Obama has o n l y been in office for 10 months

 
winterwhile 2009-11-07 11:39:26 AM  
Club Gitmo still open

no problem, Chairman Obama has o n l y been in office for 10 months

Can seem to lose that war Bush won in Iraq

no problem, Chairman Obama has o n l y been in office for 10 months

Iran about to get a Nuke

no problem, Chairman Obama has o n l y been in office for 10 months

 
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