It is part of the Conservative program to demonize and otherwise malign the unemployed. After all if you are suffering from unemployment, it is because you are stupid, lazy, evil, or have bad hygiene, right? It couldn't possibly have anything to do with the business community itself, now could it? And after all, as they love to point out, government doesn't create jobs, business does. The job creators reserve all the credit for every person they hire but not one atom of blame for any one they don't.

What I find amusing is the conservatives who are unemployed themselves, and sponging off their relatives. I wonder if taking a bath would help them? Maybe they can just blame their hard times on the Socialist Media Conspiracy.

And BTW, your comment in another post about the Right's fear of the Occupy movement is right on target. This fear and loathing is way out of proportion to the actual political effects of that movement, or how it might conceivably affect the public debate.

In my opinion, OWS will have even less influence on public discourse than the Tea Party did, (unless, of course, the pepper spraying continues). The constant, desperate, bitter and shrill campaign against OWS, including the recently revealed flurry of lobbyists memos on how to combat it, tells us much more about the targets of the movement than it does about the occupiers themselves. You're right, they ARE scared shitless.

Maybe they should just take a hot shower and go to bed.