[TomSmedley]

Unemployment insurance is not a government handout. It is paid for by employers and employees. Because the program is funded by the people that get benefits, it is truely an insurance program.

Communism, an even newer religion, controlled 1/3 of the world's population within 70 years of its emergence as a real political entity. And fell even faster.

[mikeIII]

I ,for one, won't buy the theory that communism is a religion. Furthermore, most citizens of communist countries are oppresed to remain so, against their will. And further furthermore, there are instances of communist/socialist countries changing their political philosophy, an equivalent of, say, all of Saudi Arabia converting to Christianity by the end of this decade!