Reply #4: Are you under some impression that folks want unemployment over work?

[TheKentuckian]

You understand it is a huge reduction in income with no benefits?

Job training should just be a part of unemployment (rather than historically a cause to lose benefits) but job training won't put food on the table or keep a roof over someone's head.

Your sister getting decent work is a blessing not evidence that people really don't need a lot of help. I think you're being a Republican on this one, worrying somebody, somewhere might be getting over rather than first wanting to make sure the people getting crushed by this economy at least can try to keep the home fires burning on the fumes that unemployment provides.