No, I don't seem to be.
You paid no attention to my premise, and I never said "no benefits at all."
Unemployment insurance, as designed, is a system where you pay something from your paycheck into the state, and if you are later unemployed you are paid from that fund for 26 weeks.
We left that building a while ago. Now it's Federal treasury funds, from taxpayers, paying the freight, and the states are quite happy to shove the burden somewhere else.
Let's stop beating around the bush. Three solid years of "unemployment benefits" is welfare. And it has the same negative effects on the work ethic as welfare does. Remember what we learned from welfare reform?