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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (9413)	9/13/2009 3:26:05 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

This is the debacle with the current system of unemployment compensation. I don't have a problem with unemployment compensation. For one, it's a kind of paid insurance. For another, it's temporary. I agree with you that two years is too long. There isn't the SLIGHTEST motivation to get this guy off the unemployment dole. I have some personal experience with unemployment compensation, my father. When I was a kid we lived off it as often as not because he worked as a construction laborer, which was seasonal and cyclical. He also was the last to be called up by the shop steward because he wouldn't steal his share off the job. He was a humble man, too humble for his capabilities, not at all lazy. When he worked it was because experienced builders asked for him by name. Had he not had unemployment compensation to fall back on, he would probably have made more of himself. He would have had to. Unemployment facilitated his reticence to improve his situation.