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To: KLP who wrote (338946)	12/17/2009 4:37:25 PM
From: FJB	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

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.

To: KLP who wrote (338946)	12/17/2009 7:54:29 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

spent the money that was to fund those promises This is a predictable result for any promise that the government pretends to fund. I'm not an attorney, but I can't understand why this isn't a criminal act and why the perpetrators aren't held accountable for it. They keep doing it over and over again. I once managed at the field level a few million bucks that was set aside from timber receipts to perform the reforestation and other work required under the Knudsen-Vandenburg act. We called those funds K-V funds. The K-V fund was a trust fund, and the amount in the fund was supposed to be balanced dollar for dollar with needs. I balanced the K-V funds collected for my projects every year. The regulations required that I release funds I didn't need. These surplus funds were gobbled up by other units that didn't keep their trust funds in balance, or returned to the treasury never to be seen again. Sometimes the funds were raided to fund firefighting work when the FF fund ran dry during bad fire years. Raiding the K-V fund was really against the rules, but when you're fighting fire you have to get money someplace, and that was the fastest way to get it. Congress theoretically replaced the 'borrowed' funds.