the average unemployed person spends 40 minutes a day looking for a job. but they spend three hours per day, in fact, a little over three hours, watching tv. so, the time is there. i think this is a great idea. i think it should go national. brenda: mike, do you think it s a great idea? no, i think it s a totally bogus statistic, 40 minutes a day looking for a job. this totally defeats the purpose from what i can see. if you want to give unemployment insurance benefits for a fixed amount of time and telling people for a portion of that time, maybe a decent portion, you ve he got to go do this volunteer work and you can t look for a job, that s a ridiculous thing. look, if you want to have a work for pay program, i m all for it a government jobs guarantee, where somebody works and engages in productive activity for $8 an hour, until they can get back into the private sector. but, doing something like this to me, is totally ridiculous and it s, if this is the epitome of, you know,