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- This week, a worried America watched your show. This month, Midwestern families who%u2019ve lived responsibly and prudently for generations had to bail out people from New York (700 Billion, enslaving their children to debt to other countries) who were stupid and greedy, or else %u2018we%u2019d lose our jobs%u2019.
So, on the edge of a %u2018Depression%u2019 (according to CBS News), you%u2019ve got the gall to kick people when they%u2019re down, if they lost a job and are terrified by what CBS News tells them.
Andy, we%u2019d all love our jobs if we had security making big bucks talking about the pencils in our drawer, like you.
Your comments were nothing more than the thinly disguised %u2018jobs Americans won%u2019t do%u2019 cheap labor propaganda , an intellectually lazy mantra among the elite who got us into this mess in the first place.
If you ever wondered why people believed that internet hoax about you a few years back, it%u2019s because people have, from time to time, seen this side of you. Only there was nothing in that hoax, that was worse than what you said last night. There%u2019s no excuse for people making up things other people say %u2013 but in your case, they really don%u2019t need to. - Reply to this comment
- Mr. Rooney,
"Not wanting to do the jobs that are available"? Have you been laid off from your job recently? What kind of job do you think you can find, and at your age? Let''s face it, finding a job when you are a senior is not easy, not matter what jobs you think are available. I have worked as a secretary for 38 years and was laid off five months ago. Most of the jobs available are jobs that I am NOT QUALIFIED to do. Here is a list of jobs available in my area: sign painter, laborer, technician, carpet installer... Not only cannot I not do the job, I am not qualified. Every open position in my field has over 300 applicants. If I am lucky to get an interview, I am not the chosen candidate. Maybe because of my age (I am in my 50''s) and maybe not, but I didn''t have a problem finding a job when I was younger. I don''t have anyway of proving it is age discrimination. Mr. Rooney, I would like to see you go out and find a job somewhere else doing what you are qualified to do and able to do. If you aren''t out there looking for a job in these times, I don''t believe you are qualified to be making such comments. - Reply to this comment
- You all should read what is written, he didn''t say people didn''t want to work, he said that people don''t want to do the jobs that are available. I was a mechanic I don''t want a job washing windows for one half the pay. If I was starving I would wash the windows though.
VOTE FOR NO INCUMBENTS! - Reply to this comment
- Mr. Rooney -- Among those 10 million unemployed Americans you so cavalierly said don''t want to work are the thousands of newspaper employees whose jobs have evaporated since the first of this year (estimates range from about 6,000 to 12,000-plus, which would be more than 20 percent of the industry). Who has jobs now for all these displaced journalists, "60 Minutes"?
By the way, papers are shrinking their news holes too, which means they are buying less newsprint. That job at the paper mill you remember so fondly soon may be gone too. - Reply to this comment
- Speak for yourself McGurk. Your life is centered around work at a job that you love. I should also take a moment to point out that there is a big difference between briefly working a physical labor job 40 years or more ago while you were in college and spending the last 40 years or more a job that requires physical labor. The idea that you are at a party and "work" all the time by thinking "gee, I could use that" is not impressive.
Those of us who think our lives are anchored by our families really do work to eat and keep a roof over our heads. Its not the main reason for our existence. Those of us who haven''t had our jobs shipped overseas really are tired, overworked, and stressed out. Those whose jobs have been shipped overseas during the last 15 years or more are also tired from constantly struggling to stay employed and stressed out.
I usually enjoy your spot on 60 Minutes but tonight''s segment was more like salt to the wound. - Reply to this comment
- I made an error--
I just wrote that I pay $400 a month in childcare. I meant $400 a week. That is $1600 a month. That will cancel out what I would make at that job. What do you suggest Andy? No one will watch my kids for free! My unemployment is about to run out. I need to take what is offered. I am also looking for a night job but have not been able to find one either. This is not the 1930''s or 40''s. Things are more expensive. We live in So. Calif. where rents, gas everything is more expensive! If you have it all figured out you TELL ME!!! If you can make those comments than I am sure you can tell everyone in trouble financially or those who lost their homes & savings to theives what to do. How about those on fixed income who lost a 3rd or more of their retirement? It''s easy to spill those comments from your ivory tower making at least six figures. I respect how you made it, but don''t put down those of us still struggling to make it. I think you should meet with some o us who are unemployed. I also believe that you owe us an apology on air!!! - Reply to this comment
- I made an error--
I just wrote that I pay $400 a month in childcare. I meant $400 a week. That is $1600 a month. That will cancel out what I would make at that job. What do you suggest Andy? No one will watch my kids for free! My unemployment is about to run out. I need to take what is offered. I am also looking for a night job but have not been able to find one either. This is not the 1930''s or 40''s. Things are more expensive. We live in So. Calif. where rents, gas everything is more expensive! If you have it all figured out you TELL ME!!! If you can make those comments than I am sure you can tell everyone in trouble financially or those who lost their homes & savings to theives what to do. How about those on fixed income who lost a 3rd or more of their retirement? It''s easy to spill those comments from your ivory tower making at least six figures. I respect how you made it, but don''t put down those of us still struggling to make it. I think you should meet with some o us who are unemployed. I also believe that you owe us an apology on air!!! - Reply to this comment
- I made an error--
I just wrote that I pay $400 a month in childcare. I meant $400 a week. That is $1600 a month. That will cancel out what I would make at that job. What do you suggest Andy? No one will watch my kids for free! My unemployment is about to run out. I need to take what is offered. I am also looking for a night job but have not been able to find one either. This is not the 1930''s or 40''s. Things are more expensive. We live in So. Calif. where rents, gas everything is more expensive! If you have it all figured out you TELL ME!!! If you can make those comments than I am sure you can tell everyone in trouble financially or those who lost their homes & savings to theives what to do. How about those on fixed income who lost a 3rd or more of their retirement? It''s easy to spill those comments from your ivory tower making at least six figures. I respect how you made it, but don''t put down those of us still struggling to make it. I think you should meet with some o us who are unemployed. I also believe that you owe us an apology on air!!! - Reply to this comment
- Mr. Rooney,
I have enjoyed your commentaries for years. However,it seems that you went out of your way to offend people tonight. I am 48 years old and been out of work for 14 months. I was a General Manager of a bookstore and I earned $35,000 a year doing so. I have sent out 100''s of resumes with no replies. I have a 2nd interview tomorrow with Goodwill as an Asst. Mgr. for $10 an hr. That will hardly cover the cost of my families'' childcare which will be $400 a month for 2 kids. My wife makes $12 an hour. We have had to go to food banks. DON"T TELL US WE DON"T WANT TO WORK! Please be more informed before you rip the unemployed!!!!! - Reply to this comment
- Time for that last 10 minutes of the most important show on T.V. to be given to someone who has more to talk about than himself. Andy, you are an old shoe, as you know. A year ago, what you spoke of tonight might have been received without thought but right now, the public needs to know that the world out there understands that the want ads in the local newspapers are a quarter of what they were 20 years ago. Foreclosures cover several pages in the classified. And Andy is basically telling us we are a nation of whiners who are "psycholgically unemployed." I recall working in a rancher''s office and when a white man wanted to apply for work, the reason given by the rancher for not hiring him was "he wouldn''t fit in with the Mexican workers." The white guy would have been blackballed by the immigrants. Andy, time for you to retire old buddy.
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