Rand Paul's foot-in-mouth disease worsens

I can almost hear a collective "Screw you, Rand!" emerging from the beleaguered public.

During a campaign appearance on WVLK-AM in Lexington yesterday, Rand Paul - much-ridiculed GOP Senate candidate in Kentucky - demanded that unemployed Americans can just solve their plight by simply going back to work. He told long-besieged America to just accept jobs that are far shittier and pay far less than the ones they had.

Um, Rand, it doesn't work that way.

If you invest years of your life in a career, that should earn you a chance for advancement - not consign you to a worse job.

Besides, companies are now publicly declaring their refusal to even hire the unemployed. Hey Rand, why don't you tell these firms to straighten out their hiring practices?

I'm all for hard work. But I have a saying: A lousy job is better than no job, but no job is better than a shitty job. Rand Paul's America would be one where people (even college grads) are forced to accept bad, unsafe workplace conditions.

This proves how out of touch the candidate is. Someone on another website said this reminded them of a police lieutenant's remark during a pogrom against the homeless in San Luis Obispo, California. The cop said of the homeless, "Why don't they just buy a house like everyone else?" Everybody who heard this remark was floored at the lieutenant's ignorance.

Hey, here's an idea: Maybe all the unemployed can just create their own boards to certify themselves at something - sort of like some people we know, huh, Rand?

(Source: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/18/96187/rand-paul-to-jobless.html)