Lunchtime Must-Read: Reuters: U.S. House Speaker Boehner Bemoans Notion ‘I Don’t Have to Work’

Reuters: U.S. House Speaker Boehner bemoans notion ‘I don’t have to work’: “Boehner’s remarks were in response to a question…

…following a speech he delivered to the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute…. Boehner… lamented ‘this idea that has been born, maybe out of the economy over the last couple years, that you know, I really don’t have to work. I don’t really want to do this. I think I’d rather just sit around. This is a very sick idea for our country.’…. Boehner talked about his large family of 11 brothers and sisters, saying that as a youngster… ‘If you wanted something you worked for it’… adding, ‘Trust me, I did it all’…. [Paul] Ryan… spoke of a ‘tailspin of culture in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value of work’. Ryan later said his remarks were ‘inarticulate’…