Extending Jobless Benefits

Obama is now riding Republicans on extending the jobless benefits saying that it's a "misguided notion" to think giving people unemployment benefits slows them from looking for work.

This is not true for the most part. Their is nothing more motivating than the need for essentials in life. You will do anything it takes to get those essentials. Don't get me wrong, I want to help those who are legitimately out of work, but I have a problem with those who could easily get two minimum wage jobs and lower their standards enough to not require government aid until they get a better job, but instead, would rather soak up all the money they can from the government.
The best way I've heard this told was by Ben Franklin where he said: "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."

Their is a movie called Cinderella Man starring Russell Crowe, which is quite an interesting movie if you havn't watched it yet. It takes place during the Great Depression, and finds Russell Crowe, a down on his luck boxer without enough money to feed his family, in a government building requiring aid. This was the last thing he wanted to do, but it was either that, or split his family apart. After things finally picks up for him in the later parts of the movie, we see him at the same building, but this time, he pays every last penny the government gave him back. That is true character. That is the character we are lacking today. The men of today have lost something we once had... Integrity.