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To: i-node who wrote (586664)	9/21/2010 10:52:27 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575173

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. Quantify degrees of severity ranging between transient to permanent state of national unemployment and how you would construct relief to people who've become destitute as a result? Would you abandon them after 13 or 26 weeks? Because unemployment is a way of life. This is of course absurd. Your argument implies that extended benefits preceded 10% unemployment. Al