[palmer]

Read that sentence carefully. I fail to see any value. And if there is a value, then private insurance can fill that value more efficiently and more appropriately than government.

You don't value community ties? You would rather see the unemployed uprooted and moved each time there is an economic disruption? Children separated from aging parents instead of staying to take care of them?

The greatest efficiency would come from community support in downturns, but what happens when the entire community gets hit with a plant closing?

[Reagan Renaissance]

Independent individuals learn to stand on their own feet or at least on the foundation of family. Would you go to the neighbor that lives next door to you and tell them you have lost your job and would they be willing to help support you for the next 180 days?

My children work hard and long hours, but are barely sustaining themselves. As unemployment is presently configured and administered by government, the working successful workers are penalized by bad businesses or marginal employees. This is classic liberalism; punish success for the benefit of failures.

Your thinking is an embarrassment to freedom.