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To: SilentZ who wrote (586536)	9/20/2010 5:04:12 PM
From: Jim McMannis	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575154

Who funds your job?

To: SilentZ who wrote (586536)	9/20/2010 6:16:10 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575154

Z, > It's not funding continuous unemployment. Yes it is. You're keeping people out of the labor market, and your discouraging entrepreneurship. They won't feel the need to take lower-paying jobs (for instance) or start their own businesses because they can just live off the government teat. Basically you're just creating dependency. The money gets spent, but only at the rate at which you've artificially induced said dependency. Tenchusatsu

To: SilentZ who wrote (586536)	9/21/2010 9:20:59 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575154

It's not funding continuous unemployment. There can be something of a case to be made that unemployment benefits keep people from working when unemployment rates are very low. But not now. They address these issues in absolute terms. 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, people who have fallen on hard times as a result of this economy and who can't find employment. What would one do with them? Have them live on the streets? The problem with populist arguments is that it cynically feeds at the edges of popular resentment but ignores the true essence of the issues. Al