[A. Pole]

What really has been keeping the unemployment rate high is the unemployment extensions.

Yes, you have found the reason. Eliminate unemployment insurance completely and the economy will boom. I guess that closing hospitals will eliminate problem with seriously sick people as well.

[GatekeeperBookman]

A strange analogy-since sick people may not heal themselves, while free, unemployed, in a capitalistic system, may do what it takes to find or make work. I think you are wrong to asert this analogy. Welfare is long proven to breed dependency-since the Roman Corn Laws, at least.