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Just one more reason why liberals should never have any power.

Food Stamps are now "Stimulus"

Job Creator

I'm not surprised that liberals cannot admit their failed policies don't work and make the problem even worse (hell self denial is a required tool to be a liberal)what always amazes me is they try to make their failures seem noble and wonderful.

We really need a [:stoptryingtohelpyouareonlymakingitworse:] smily.

To be fair, this is not new. Pelosi made the exact same claim a year or so back.

It was just as ridiculous then, of course.

On a completely separate note, I referenced neckbeards this weekend several times to a girl and STILL got laid.

Did you ask what conditioner she used to keep it so silky and smooth?

Well, yeah. That was my point.

You do realize that the vast majority of people have to work or prove that they are actively looking for work to be eligible for food stamps, right?

While it may seem silly to call an existing program "stimulus," if they expand the program to promote economic growth, then that's exactly what it is. But tards like you who can't see how safety nets do more than invite people to fall into them probably won't understand that anytime soon.

Sure, twice I think! With a nod and a wink. Conservatives know that direct payments like that don't actually stimulate the economy much (at all?). Only about 20% of the money ends out being spent buying things, with the other 80% spent paying down debt (we had this discussion before I'm sure!). We know this and we're ok with doing it because we know that paying down of debt is actually a better use of the money when compared to direct consumption spending.

Liberals think the opposite, so we let them think we're going along with their stupid economic ideas just to placate them. Works most of the time too!



Yeah. That wasn't so much of a criticism as a statement of fact. You liberals are such tools sometimes!

Edited, Aug 16th 2011 7:17pm by gbaji

Straight from your link...




Seems like pretty simple logic to me.

Which is hilarious given that you've previously cited this as one of Bush's mastermind moves to end the recession in the early 2000's


Irony.

Enlighten me!

It has something to do with the cost of the food stamps being paid via taxation by the store the food stamps are being used in. The store doesn't actually make any more money. Therefore, it can't afford to hire more people to put food on the shelves. You can use this to increase the volume of food flowing into the store and off the shelves, but you won't actually create any jobs this way. What will happen is that more work stocking shelves has to be done for the same cost (meaning that those who do have jobs have to work harder for the same relative pay). This makes jobs stocking shelves less attractive, and not having a job and getting free food via the stamps more attractive.

Surely, you can see that this will tend to have a negative effect on jobs, right?