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To: combjelly who wrote (462351)	3/9/2009 3:41:34 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) of 1577928

>>> Ah, claiming victory and going home. Not surprised. On this subject, I am claiming victory. You are clearly trying to obfuscate the fact that you are wrong about the central issue, i.e., that unemployment benefits provide an incentive for people to stay home and watch TV rather than get off their asses and look for jobs. Not ALL of them, but some. And that's stupid for a country to send that kind of message to its unemployed. We can argue about the extent to which this phenomenon occurs. But to argue that it doesn't is beyond stupid. It obviously does. I personally know of examples where it is occurring RIGHT NOW. And these people have no difficulty admitting it. The solution is simple. Instead of funding unemployment benefits, the unemployment tax funds should be used to pay for temporary government jobs. If you want the benefit, you get off your ass and go to work. That separates the truly needy from the truly lazy. If the state cannot give you a job within 10 days, then you get unemployment benefits until they do. There is no reason for government to be paying people not to work.

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