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Title: Ben Stein: Most Unemployed Have 'Poor Work Habits, Poor Personalities.'
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MediaMatters
URL Source: http://mediamatters.org/strupp/201007200052
Published: Jul 20, 2010
Author: MediaMatters
Post Date: 2010-07-20 17:29:04 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 1218
Comments: 3
Ben Stein, writing at American Spectator, claims to know why many of the unemployed are without work, stating they did not realistically look at the job market and economy and "lived in a dream world." In the piece titled 'The End of Wishful Thinking,' Stein declares: 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. But he then notes that people close to him, whom he presumably does not believe have poor personalities or work habits, have also been struck by the recent unemployment wave: ... it has hit the people closest to me the hardest. Until now, I never had a friend who was truly in financial extremis from a recession. When recessions happened, they happened to people in Ohio or Illinois or Michigan. Now, they have hit hard in California and in the law field where so many of my friends work and in Washington, D.C. (yes, even in D.C.) where I am from. I never had a friend lose his house until this recession and now I am sad to say I have many pals who have either lost their homes or are in process of losing their homes. Doesn't that sort of negate his other claim? Unless he is close to people who don't want to work or have poor personalities.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Republicans are at the same time arguing that Obama isn't creating enough jobs and that those who can't find work are lazy because there are plenty of jobs. They are apparently too stupid to notice the contradiction in those arguments.
I just hope "they" keep on talking, indeed. {{{chuckle}}}
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
Liberals are just plain stupid. Not only can they not find employment, they are unable to create it. Sneakypete, have you ever been married? Said things you later regretted?
Being a Republicans means you get to choose your own reality
#2. To: go65 (#1)
#3. To: go65 (#1)
They are apparently too stupid to notice the contradiction in those arguments.
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