John Lynch has made greater political hay than any other governor before him by promoting his "Rapid Response Team", which races out to help newly unemployed people get onto unemployment, and receive "services".

Since the Lynch Adminstration has played up its use of the "Rapid Response Team" in high-profile cases of business closure, where the number of people affected is large, and ripe for media coverage, one has to ask, what standard dictates the use of the team? Can a group of employees at a small business get the same assistance; can an individual who loses his job? Will the "Rapid Response Team" fly out to help if there isn't a camera there?

And why do we have a system wherein the government takes a chunk of our money, holds it and hands it back to us when we lose jobs? Why is it that certain people get MORE than what they put into the unemployment system, and others (self-employed) cannot collect what they are forced to put in?

Why is government involved at all?