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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: KLP who wrote (338946)12/17/2009 4:37:25 PM
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I was in the sauna after my workout at the gym today and overheard a conversation. An older lady and man were talking about unemployment benefits. The lady's boyfriend had just found a job in insurance after pretty much maxing out the time you could be on unemployment. During that time they took vacations to Alaska, Puerto Vallarta and Dallas. The man said he had 17 weeks of benefits left and was working part-time currently.

I always thought it was myth that people would stay on unemployment as long as possible to max out benefits, but was definitely wrong. People are milking the system to their maximum benefit. Congress continually extending benefits is only keeping unemployment artificially high.
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