[quote=jpinpb]My take on unemployment is it should be temporary and as a requirement of receiving it, you must be attending some kind of job training/education. I would not be opposed w/government job assitance program. I firmly believe not feeding the hungry, but teaching them to fish.

Right now my cousin who worked since he was 15 years old at a factory (30 years of his life) has been unemployed for over a year, collecting unemployment and babysitting his kids while wife works (she always has, not just started since the factory closed). He has pretty much come out and said that as long as he gets unemployment, he doesn’t care about getting a job. He has had no education since high school. No motivation to learn a new skill.

I just don’t agree w/this.[/quote]

I don’t disagree with this. I would not object to some of the stim money being used, WPA style, to improve infrastructure… at least that way taxpayers get the benefits of works projects (roads/dams/etc.). Much of SDSU was built under the WPA.