I tend to agree.
Referring to unemployment as “welfare” is not *always* correct.
There are some people on it who are genuinely looking for a job, but due to the Obama economy, they can’t find one.
Of course, there ARE others who really do use unemployment as a prop to sit around and do nothing, making only a notional effort to “look for work” so they have something to turn in each week to prove that they’re “looking for work.”
But lumping the two together doesn’t seem fair to me.
And I agree too.Fortunately,I am self employed and still have enough work. We are an industrialized nation that is going broke. People can’t just go home and “live on the farm” like many could do during the depression. There aren’t enough cars to wash, or bathrooms to clean to employ all the people out of work. It’s true that there are those that milk the system, but for the most part, people who have to use unemployment benefits would rather not be having to do so. Maybe I’m not “conservative enough” on this issue, but I really believe that helping folks survive by unemployment benefits is one of the more legitimate uses of our tax dollars. I can think of a lot of other things and agencies that could be defunded to help fund unemployment benefits.