ml> in the same breath, do not believe those stats about X% are unemployed   
    ml> because they are always short...   
      
    RC> The unemployment figures released by the labor pencil pushers do   
    RC> not include those who are no longer eligible for bennies or havent   
    RC> filed for them.    
      
   that's exactly my point... when they say "the unemployment rate is a X%" i   
   know that it is flat out wrong ;)   
      
    ml> i've been unemployed numerous times for several years in some    
    ml> cases and have never gone down and been added to the statistics so    
    ml> i know for a fact that they are always at least one entity    
    ml> short... welfare helps those who are willing to go that route but    
    ml> there are many others who do not and will not "go there" for their    
    ml> own reasons...   
      
    RC> The problem with welfare is it creates a dependency, and one   
    RC> develops a rationale that the reason they got onto it, is reason   
    RC> enough to perpetually stay on it.   
      
   how does it create a dependency?? if one wanted to get off of it, they could   
   unless they were on it due to extenuating circumstances... medical situations   
   would be one of those... extreme obesity might be one medical situation...   
   cronic fatigue syndrome might be another...   
      
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