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To: SilentZ who wrote (327857)	3/3/2007 1:36:16 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1575614

Country A's unemployment figures may be inflated because their unemployment benefits are too "beneficial". Kinda like FEMA giving away $2000 during Katrina, "yeah, I live in New Orleans"

To: SilentZ who wrote (327857)	3/3/2007 10:53:19 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1575614

"If unemployed people in Country B are much more likely to live on the street and starve than in Country A." This isn't true. Our dumpsters are veritable cornucopias! When I managed some university area apartments, the homeless guys that lived in the cane stand in the field next door used the eat in my stairwells. I caught them at it one night, as they were leaving all the trash there and I had to clean it up. I made a deal with them that if they'd police their own mess, I'd let them eat there. There was a Church's Fried Chicken across the street, and they'd grab the top garbage bags in the dumpster after closing. They knew that those bags had maybe half a dozen meals in them that had gone unsold - free eats for the homeless!