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Originally Posted by cwar
Why help him cheat the system? Unemployment is for those who need help. You went pro be a man and do the right thing, you clearly do not need the government to financially support you if you just went pro.
Maybe he sucks. How many people run hot for a while, think they're going pro, then barely make any money?
Also if you think the primary purpose of unemployment is to help people, it's not. That's a side benefit. The primary purpose is to keep the economy from going into a death spiral, or at least dampen the effect. (People get laid off, can't buy goods and services, which cause more people to get laid off, who can't buy goods and services, etc.) This is why the extensions get almost unanimous consent. If it was purely for humanitarian reasons they would have cut it off a long time ago.