Doug asked <<So we should make unemployment illegal, huh. Hey Ilana, do you know of anywhere where they made unemployment illegal?>> In Soviet Union. Unemployment was punishable by imprisonment (sp). Did any of you heard of Prisoners of Zion? (The most famous were Anatoly Charanski and Ida Nudel - most famous out SU, that is - inside hardly anyone new their names) - The idea is simple - you want to leave your motherland / you are speaking against the government -> you are traitor -> traitor can't keep a job -> unemployed is sent to Siberia. You want to move to other city? - You can't get permission to live there without showing that you are employed - you can't get employment if you can't show that you have permit to live in this city and if you are unemployed you can be sent to jail or to Siberia or you can be volunteered for one of the big projects. The system worked for 70 years and very efficiently created employees that go to work but do nothing.
Ilana, former of Latvia Republic of Soviet Union
