While I would not particularly enjoy it, I think that I would find scrubbing toilets for a living far less humiliating than sitting on my ass letting other people subsidize my life.
Bingo.
Although, let me add this qualifier - for instance, if a person on unemployment uses that time to retrain for a new job - think laid-off assembly line worker going to community college for a year to learn a trade - then, as a taxpayer, I look at that money as an investment. The person will better themselves, become more hire-able, maybe start their own business, etc etc etc. And, ideally, assume some of the tax burden from me.
But, I also wonder how many people are actually doing something like that, in comparison to those just sitting around on their asses waiting for the checks to stop coming.