Not yet, anyhow.
I've never been on unemployment, but I hear it sucks. I always took the route of taking whatever work I could find,
because I figured it was the "Great American" thing to do. (I've grown up since then.) I can only imagine that if I were to get laidoff, that bills would start going unpaid in short order, even with unemployment. Problem with the shitty paying jobs is, your working, but your bills still go unpaid anyways. Makes those jobs kinda worthless, Huh?
Sounds like the wages need to come up. So people have some incentive to work. You do recall what incentive is, don't you?
Oh, and you're prolly right. They probably aren't starving, they're probably fat, riding around in Bentlys, sipping Chateau Lafitte. And it does give them more time to hang out at Tea Party Rallies and bitch about people living on the dole.
Dave