Obama will be number 1

[spence]

Originally Posted by scottw

irrational???

you just posted "Food stamps offer best stimulus"

too funny

Read it.

-spence

[scottw]

I did, it measures the most effective sugar rush if you are going to dump borrowed money into the economy....we've had massive "stimulus", a couple of recovery summers and I believe we just found out that July was a new record for new Food Stampees- long after Bush and the so-called recovery......I guess the economy should be singing base on your theory, but it's teetering and growth in anemic....

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Pa...amp-recipients

“For Every Person Added to Jobs Rolls Since January 2009, 75 People Added To Food Stamp Rolls.”
http://www.infowars.com/food-stamp-g...-job-creation/


"This time the USDA delayed its release nine days past the semi-official deadline, far past the election, and until Friday night to report August foodstamp data. One glance at the number reveals why: at 47.1 million, this was not only a new all time record, but the monthly increase of 420,947 from July was the biggest monthly increase in one year."

[spence]

Originally Posted by scottw

I did, it measures the most effective sugar rush if you are going to dump borrowed money into the economy....we've had massive "stimulus", a couple of recovery summers and I believe we just found out that 2011 was a new record for new Food Stampees- long after Bush and the so-called recovery......I guess the economy should be singing base on your theory, but it's teetering and growth in anemic....

Huh? Nobody is stating that food stamps are a fix, rather when isolated they offer a better return...

-spence

[scottw]

Originally Posted by spence

Huh? Nobody is stating that food stamps are a fix, rather when isolated they offer a better return...

-spence

no they don't..if that were true we'd be seeing one hell of a return....in the long run this is a permanent expansion of government spending...as was most of the "stimulus"....they offer a better sugar rush if you view the economy as static, reduction of tax burden and regulation on business matched by reductions in government spending would be a much better alternative....but...can't reduce government spending can we?...this is the RI version of economic stimulus...increase $$ to those dependant on government making them more permanently dependant on government and then expand casino gambling so that you can bus them there on payday as well as sell them cigarettes and booze and lottery tickets = "revenue"....viola!

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by spence

Huh? Nobody is stating that food stamps are a fix, rather when isolated they offer a better return...

-spence

Spence, if food stamps offer a great return, and food stamp use is at an all-time high, why aren't we seeing that great return?

[spence]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

Spence, if food stamps offer a great return, and food stamp use is at an all-time high, why aren't we seeing that great return?

How do you know you're not?

-spence

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by spence

How do you know you're not?

-spence

Because record numbers of folks are on the food stamps, record dollars are being spent on food stamps, and yet the economy sucks. Because Warren Buffet didn't get rich by handing out food stamps.

Seems to me that if 47 million food stamp recipients (out of 300 million Americans) were such a great investment, we'd see soem improvement.

Spence, would the economy be better off if (1) everyone needed to be on food stamps, or (2) no one needed to be on food stamps.

This is a from a guy who works in busiess of some sort? Saying that welfare (especially welfare that we have to borrow to provide) is a good investment.

[justplugit]

Spence, you are spending waaay too much time here when your supposed to
be working to keep the market up above 13,000.
How come it's down 755 since O got re-elected.
Maybe even more issuance of foodstamps would help, oh wait that's right, they are
issuing many more.