The unemployment runs out eventually right?
There are rules you must follow. And yes, after I believe a year or maybe (strong maybe) two, tops, it'll run out. I'll have to ask him to know fully.
The main rule though, is you
must apply for a new job. Unfortunately, they didn't make this rule very clear which allows practically anyone to apply in asking for $15.00 an hour at a place where the top hourly employee makes maybe $10.00. Clearly that business won't be asking them to come work there, but they're following the rules of applying through loop-holes.
That's the same argument made against welfare system through the years. If you give a person everything for nothing, it destroys their incentive to earn it for themselves. Of course, I'm talking about the (many) folks who went on welfare and stayed for the rest of their lives. But as someone in this thread said, unemployment doesn't last forever.
Still, after it runs out, it's probably harder for the recipient to go back to work, when he gets less money than he received for doing nothing.
I think the Welfare argument is slightly different.
As it relates to Unemployment, the individual must show a sign of wanting to better themselves by having a job and lasting long enough to qualify for unemployment, first.
As far as Welfare, you just have to show your Government you're so unkept and unfit as a Human being, that you must have assistance or else you could become homeless, or die due to not having proper ways of feeding yourself.
Typically Welfare is for the handicap and slobs of the world. I'm not knocking it, some day I'll be old(er) and need it, quite possibly. Albeit, I could be mistaking this for Social Security. Either way, I do look forward to having myself a personal ass wiper again.
As far as becoming hard to go back to work, this I could agree with if it wasn't for the fact that he's still working an actual job along with collecting unemployment. So the transition to return to work shouldn't be too hard, albeit the fact that he'll have to work 2 jobs someday again (unless he finds one that'll cover making the full same amount) could pose the problem you're talking about. I know I sure wouldn't want to live off something for nothing for close to two years, then be forced (more or less) to return to working twice as hard for it.