The thing is...we've managed to keep the MANY from starving, which wasn't the case in 1932. Today, there are soup kitchens, but no bread lines. Today, the unemployed want only to work ON THEIR TERMS. In THEIR FIELD. No longer will men leave home to stay in a work camp to rebuild roads and bridges...and even more sadly, those building the bridges and roads don't want workers who are inexperienced. We citizens have gotten too big for our britches. Back then, a job was a job. For some noble few, that is still true, but as long as government keeps just "extending" unemployment, there is no reason to work. Unemployment has become "respectible" welfare.

A number of years ago, I lost my job. It was before the bottom fell out of the economy. I collected unimployment for a limited period of time. I understand ... there were millions of people who were suddenly jobless when the bottom fell out ( go back and think the Great Depression.) Now, many people are still out of work. The answer has been to just keep paying the unemployment. Seems to me that FDR came up with his Alphabet Soup and put people to work. Now, in retrospect, turns out, FDR did that so fast that Congress didn't kno w what hit them. Good on him! Something like that could never happen today. Fast forward to the NOW ~ What was the Alphabet Soup, but recognizing that there were things that needed doing and the government subsidizing it. Today, the government is subsidizing the unemployed to stay at home. If folks want that subsidy, they should be working fixing our 300 year old infrastructure that is collapsing...roads, bridges. Lots of things need fixing, let the unemployed work in doing that.