Working for my Money (Twice)

I think that the idea of making me volunteer in order to get my unemployment benefits that I paid for is a bunch of crap.  I have already paid into the system with my check, now the federal government wants me to volunteer  my time in order to get the money that is owed to me?
The very idea makes my blood pressure go up about seventy points.  If this is the best that the paid morons can do, it is more proof positive that we need a giant enema to flush out the current batch of government.
I have seen people work the system.  My father wasted eight years of his life (and three thousand of my dollars) on a person who would take volunteer lay off whenever she could get it.  The unemployment she received was only about thirty dollars less than her regular check, so she would rather stay home watching soap operas and eating cheesy poofs.  Yep she was a dandy.  As much as I didn't like that waste of oxygen, she HAD worked to pay into the unemployment to get the check.  I think the idea of putting another hoop at the end of the road is unfair.  Even to that.
The ideas have been floated around to have those people re-earn their money by painting bridges, clean up parks and other things.  Wouldn't that take the jobs away from other people who are already hired to do that?
How about this:Instead of trying to legislate morality ie forced volunteerism, why don't we remove the boot from the throat of small businesses and let us thrive so that we can go about the job of hiring people?
It's just crazy enough to work and best of all, it is one less bureaucracy.  Think about it, you'll thank me later.