Unemployment benefits

Gracita rightfully points out in her letter to the editor that the best way to help the unemployed citizens of our country – according to Dennis Richardson aka Mr. Hurricane there are 6000 unemployed – is to pump money via unemployment benefits into the local economy.

However, there is a good chance that some of that money will be sent overseas to the home countries of some of these unemployed persons. The French has a better idea. They use a voucher system or a money card system whereby the funds on that card has to – and can only – be spent locally with businesses that are a part of the program. At least that way you have the guarantee that the money will be spent locally and thereby jump-starting the local economy.