Don't say it's because of benefits, because our benefits are good.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.
When you make money, it's natural to enjoy all the benefits it offers.
We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.
While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.
If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.
If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.
Not only do unemployment benefits help families who are hurting; they also put money into their pockets that they'll then spend - and their spending will keep other Americans in jobs.
I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them.
It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.