[Persevero]

“unemployment will go up because all those bums will just sit on the couch for another year.”

I don’t support the unemployment benefits extension, but should you call all the unemployed “bums?” I know two men well who have needed work for about a year and they are hardly bums. They are skilled; they have good references; they are looking; and they are not finding any work.

There are no doubt FReepers on unemployment right now. Everyone receiving unemployment insurance is not necessarily sitting on the couch.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Where I live there are “help wanted” signs everywhere. Anyone still unemployed at this point doesn't want a job, or is holding out of a better one because the unemployment check allows them too.