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Originally Posted by Gareth

You don't need to make them work. But you don't have to pay them benefits either. I live in California, and our unemployment benefit is like a savings account - you have to earn it before you get paid it, and after a period of time it runs out - and you need to find a job in order to replenish your unemployment balance or you starve. If you are physically incapable of working, there are programs to help out, and also modified work, which finds you a job which fits your ability, and potentially makes up the difference in what an employer would pay you. My brother-in-law has struggled with employment recently, and doesn't feel the urge to go get a job.... until his unemployment is about to run out.

I think most decent people want those who truly cannot provide for themselves to be cared for, but those who are physically capable should be supported in the short term while they get their act together, but able bodied individuals shouldn't be supported for their lifetime.

OK! Clever clogs! How do you differentiate between someone who cannot find a job that pays enough to live on from someone who does not want to find one? Then having done that how do you make a person do the job properly?