My pathetic response to this cartoon was, "Wow, I never received a stipend like that."

I'm actually getting unemployment benefits right now. Not that much, but I'm not complaining either. It feels kind of arbitrary. Why am I getting money from the government, because my position was eliminated? Why is that a better reason that the other reasons that I've left jobs? Why didn't I get money when I had to leave a job, because I had a baby?