I'm not naive. Of course there are people who will work the system, but I doubt those people had jobs to lose. They probably weren't working to begin with.

I don't know where these freeloaders are, or what kind of people you associate with that you know so very many of them. The people I know who lost their jobs have been devastated. They lost lucrative jobs and haven't been able to find anything close to what they had. Their benefits are long gone, and they work two and three jobs to make ends meet.

My husband's company got rid of 14 people in his dept. and outsourced their jobs. He's kept in touch with his former coworkers. Two of them have found jobs in their fields and are making similar money. The rest haven't been able to find anything close. One is working at Sears, another tried his hand at real estate. These are people who once had technical and/or executive positions with very high salaries.