I'm with you. This article sheds light on a terrible fact of American society today. When "unemployment beats a lousy job" that means that incentives are GROSSLY misaligned. Run that fact through the categorical imperative[1]- you have a country full of people doing nothing, which obviously does not work. I guess this is what happens when you get 99 full weeks of unemployment benefits, when you have a generation of millennials that think they're entitled to everything, and when you have a society that's willing to provide it no matter how much debt it involves.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative