[OANST]

I refuse to play the game of not saying something because that something can be taken out of context and used inappropriately. Especially here, where no one official is going to come in and use my words to persecute people. We were discussing the negative aspects of unemployment because that's what the subject is. This program is intended to help contain those aspects of it. From the very start I said that it sounds like a flawed system, but that the idea itself may actually be necessary. We aren't talking about people having to immediately work in this situation because they are unemployed. We're talking two years down the line. Two years of not working is an extremely long time. I have to think that the percentage of people not really trying hard enough has to be incredibly higher at the two year mark. Either that, or the unemployment problem in the U.K. far exceeds the unemployment problems in the Detroit area. If it does then I'm out of my depth, but Detroit is one of the worse off areas in this country, and I assumed it couldn't be much worse than this in the U.K.