but not so much as one on TV.

More like the corporate bigwigs enjoy watching the masses duke it out for the crumbs, and seeing how low in bidding a person will go.

Ever see the "Metalocalypse" cartoon on the Cartoon Network? There was an episode where they were getting new recruits for working at the band's headquarters ... at the orientation for potential employees, they were instructed to pair off and fight to the death, with the victor getting the job ...

I see that being not too far from possible in the not too distant future ...

The current impasse between the House and Senate on extending the payroll tax cut and extended unemployment benefits is partly about differing views of unemployment. House Republicans want to show the unemployed some tough love to get them off the couch and back to work. They really didn’t want to extend unemployment benefits at all on the theory that preventing the unemployed from starvation dulled the motivation to find a job. Other like Mark Schmitt have pointed out that there are four job applicants per opening so motivation alone–even life or death–might not suffice to boost employment. Now the GOP has decided that the problem is that the unemployed are druggies or high school drop-outs (read, it’s their own damn fault) and have insisted that states be allowed to test UI recipients for drugs and require those without a high school diploma to get a GED. They also insist that extended unemployment be cut from 99 weeks to 79 weeks and that high income people be prevented from claiming UI benefits. That is, they want to make it more like a welfare program and less like insurance, presumably in hopes of diminishing its support.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/leonardburman/2011/12/20/blaming-the-victim-are-the-unemployed-just-lazy-or-defective/

We've had stories of thousands of people who go to job fairs or businesses that advertise for help for just a few jobs. It's an employer's market now, which is exactly what the GOP business model has always been about.

Americans haven't rioted over not getting jobs, because that won't get one hired later. I think the Democratic record of small business growth and job creation stands for itself. Naturally, M$M won't cover that, oh no.

Another factor not taken into account except in Teabagger homilies is the effect of long-term unemployment on health and the ability to change careers due to injury and age, being able to keep one's home, or getting education to possibly, not probably, get out of the trap that one falls into.

The M$M don't cover the level of disruption this causes to people's lives, making them less likely to be able to vote. We should have birthright voter registration so that it follows them like the social security numbers babies get then. Then no matter where a person was forced to move with job dislocation or other events, they would be able to vote against these no-good GOP who are determined that they will have no voice in the major issues of their lives. IMHO.