Hi, Idlehour. I'm all for unemployment benefits for those who really need it, but what are we to do about those who are milking it? My local paper just ran a "guest column" from a woman who has had her hand out for unemployment checks for two years now, and bragged that she doesn't apply "for just any job". She asked for sympathy because her house is about to be forclosed on. She bragged that she has spent "hundreds of hours" researching for the "work I'm eligible for". Gee, I always thought that, if you are unemployed, you are automatically eligible for ANY JOB (to include cleaning toilets, flipping burgers, running a cash register, digging ditches). This evening, I visited with a another woman who was bragging that her brother was building up sizeable savings from "working for cash" while also collecting unemployment checks for the past 18 months. These freeloaders seem to think that unemployment checks come from the Good Fairy. They just don't get it that they are putting the bill on their fellow citizens to support them.

I'm a liberal, but I perceive that many Americans have developed a sense of entitlement - as in "The World Owes Me A Living". That attitude makes me sick.

Yes, yes, yes. Grayson for President! I have said the same myself and truly feel that you are absolutely correct. If President Obama would have done everything that Alan Grayson said and did, our Country would be much politically healthier today. Ed Schultz and Alan Grayson think the same. They would be a fair and victorious team.

This is not the post of a liberal.The rich and big business play the system all the time with far more reaching consequences but God forbid the poor and middles class do it.It's good that we have unemplyment and welfare to help keep things a little more equal.If we didn't have those optons then employers would have alot more power over you and wages and working conditions would be terrible.Think about it.If an employer knows that you have to work or starve then your employer isn't going to treat you very well.Not only that but it's a good thing that some don't want to work because that leaves more jobs available for those that do.The people getting welfare and unemployment arten't your enemy.It's the greedy corporations that are.

We agree again....its not individual welfare that has terribly hurt this country....consider individual welfare as the cost to keep the Indians on the reservation and not roaming the streets of middle class suburbia looking for easy marks.

But corporate welfare is the real villain in American - with its endless tax breaks and subsidies to move jobs over-seas! Individual welfare is a drop in the bucket compared to the welfare enjoyed by Corporate America and the upper 1-2% of the American population.

Yes, Grayson seems like he would be a great candidate for President. But with the opposition we are getting from the Republican party I don’t care which candidate we pick, they are still going to have a hard time getting anything done. FDR even had trouble when it came to working with the Republican party. There is no such thing as bipartisanship in politics. I don’t care what anyone says.

Alan Grayson tells it like it is and so does Anthony Weiner from New York!