BlueNebula
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- May 21, 2015
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The problem is that is somewhere between difficult and impossible to do you know? First how are you going to prove that so and so is abusing the system? Put an ankle monitor on them to see how often they leave the house to go walking around looking for help wanted signs? In my neck of the woods the only companies that would put up a help wanted sign are the few Mom and Pops stores that still exist. Anything larger than that and your only way of getting to them is to go online to their website and fill out an app. So they should be sitting on their ass in front of their computer at least half their waking hours. Do you check their computer history? Well that's all fine and dandy (if a little invasive) most companies have a 90day waiting period where they tell you not to reapply within so depending on how many companies are in the area they are still going to have a lot of downtime. Do you judge it by how many callbacks they get or interviews? Ultimately they have zero control over that. Do you judge it by what they own (since I see a lot of people bitching about so and so has Air Jordans, an Xbox, a Cell Phone, a computer and the internet) Well the first two very well may have been gifts or purchases prior to becoming unemployed. The last three are required. I've already explained why the computer and internet are required and while I guess they could sit by their home phone if you want them spending time wandering the streets looking for help wanted signs. . .well cell phone becomes a must.
It's not that I think waste is a good thing, it's that I realize it's a lot of trouble to work through and maybe we'd be better off working on other things that would solve the unemployment issue in the first place rather than looking for ways to punish those without jobs.
All of these are excellent points. You're absolutely right. It's something that cannot be gauged or measured. What I was trying to get across is simply that terminating a program or damning the person who initiated it or supported it is not an answer to the problem of misuse/corruption.