It rubbed me the wrong way too, when I was unemployed for a long time. But only at the end of my Unemployment Checks did I walk into a catering company and put in a job application for a delivery driver, or apply to a trade school, or talk to a friend who owns a coffee shop about going to work for her. There were plenty of jobs I could have gotten and earned a living at. I was just too stuck-up and self-important to do them. This is not true of everyone, I know. Some people are just at the bottom of the skills barrel, or are simply having a rough time finding work. But this is not a "jobs availability" problem. There are more open jobs in the US today than there have been in the past. There are many reasons for this, of course, but saying that "job creation" is the problem to be solved is just flat out wrong from many vectors of perspective.