Yes, it IS grim for many out there today when it comes to finding jobs (or being ALLOWED by national, State, or Local policies to HAVE a place to Do work from or preach religion, for that matter).

But there are also many people who don't like immigrants coming to America, resent the fact these immigrants get food stamps and housing/medical aid that "could help REAL Americans" and so on, and of course, "the Socialism Bozo Clinton started, Bush stoked, and Obama sees as his crowning glory".

To be sure, many things in the USA DO have the patina of telling us "getting like Castro and Mao and Marx" will make mean ol' epigenetically driven/Godlessly evolved humans a manageable herd sans ANY problems at all...even though, kids and young folks, we "codgers" remember your Castros, Maos, and Marxmen have been around since 1959 or longer as leaders, and one need only Google on say Cuba or the KGB to see how the way things are going NOW in those "purer" lands and all their human rights abominations en masse from the start of their Socialism to date.

In other words, if Raoul or Fidel Castro say "Viva Estados Unidos!" and vote for a Nobel Peace Prize for a President embracing THEIR ideas of culture, the tune "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" seems less apropos than the phrase "Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here".

However, many of those same "real, Constitution-thumping patriotic" Americans who SOUND Conservative or at least pro-America are all too happy to live on perpetual unemployment handouts themselves, with a number of States actually coaxing them into pulling in fast Federal cash to "save more local grocery, tattoo parlor, liquor store, lottery vendor, and movie jobs". Because a new job would pay the same or so as propagandized unemployment extensions, many "Americans who WANT to work" actually avoid getting out of bed to search for jobs while the extension gravy trains keep rolling.

Cudos to the Illinois Department Of Employment Security (IDES) for recognizing that while some people just need help pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, many could easily be partying on fraudulent claims of "never find work, never get offered ANY job period". IDES adds some toothy rungs to unemployment extension benefits claims, as shown at EB_worksearch.pdf ;  you have to provide who you talked to, where, when, contact data/numbers, and so on...risking at any time a fraud investigator will burn you if caught in a pack of lies.

Compare that to the mind-numbing array of "free money" tactics used by a State like Oregon, so bad that someone who had a job paying $1,920/month UI expire YEARS ago, then WORKED AT INSURED WORK FOR A QAUARTER AT LOWER PAY, then sat on extension after extension BACK ON the old $1,920/month is STILL eligible thanks to Oregon's view of the newest extension; Oregon Employment Department's miasma of tiers and calculations is so hard to follow I list it only as a link to the OED website for such data: http://www.employment.oregon.gov/EMPLOY/UI/extensions_overview_12-16-08.shtml .

No wonder Oregon's unemployment rate "can't" fall below 10%!  Especially given that OED's scrutiny of claims/extensions is that you pinky-swear you simply looked for work, no facts needed (https://ssl8.emp.state.or.us/ocs4/claim/advisory.cfm?ID=45122619&lang=E&CFID=4249051&CFTOKEN=91642710 ).

So for all those "real Americans and Christians and so on" who just HATE Socialism, turn down or avoid work that exists for malingering...I mean, unemployment...benefits with eternal extensions, and can't STAND immigrants wanting to work: YOU are the of the Red October Hymn, YOU are the parasites, and YOU are a needless surplusage and drain to ANY advance of work, trade, or Capitalism of any nature.