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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (586654)9/21/2010 10:07:20 AM
From: i-node1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 1575428
 
There are people out there who are probably just content to live off the unemployment $$, but that's not a case for abandoning the majority of folks

You don't even begin to understand the issue. It isn't about people abusing the system (which is another problem).

It is about the public policy implications of paying people not to work, which encourages the wrong kind of behavior. On any given day the number of people who are abusing the payments may be small; but as a matter of public policy it is untenable to pay people not to work.

Nobody I know of has a problem with providing 13 weeks of unemployment benefits. Maybe even 26 weeks in a severe economic downturn, to the extent it can be funded out of existing programs.

We are now providing 99 weeks (TWO YEARS), and [surprise] they want more. Of course they want more. Because unemployment is a way of life.
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