This is, I suspect, a lot more generous than many 'socialist' nation's welfare programs.
Could be, I don't really know the specific's of our unemployment system, although I read a lot of screed about Britain's youth being on the dole so I think theirs is pretty generous.
How's this for irony:
I work full time for the US DOD. During this spring's build-up to a gov shut down, I contacted FL's unemployment office on a whim. Just to see. Sure enough, if I had been furloughed due to a shut down I would have qualified for unemployment. I would have gotten (if I applied, which I wouldn't) 2/3rds of my salary while furloughed, and being temporary I would have even been exempt from the "looking for a job" requirements of actual unemployed people. So the .gov would have shut down the
military over the budget issues, but .gov handouts to lazy folks, nope they're safe and will continue.
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(cue someone claiming that unemployment benefits aren't a tax but rather insurance that you've payed for.)