While the Senate continues to nit-pick the stimulus package, the average American struggles to pay bills, find jobs, get insurance, find someone to watch their kids on the barter system…. all while they fight over “pork” and how much or little tax cuts they might give us. It’s disgusting.
Most of the “pork” the Republicans want thrown out is the same old stuff they always want out. They ask themselves this question “does this money benefit, in any way, the poor, minorities, women’s health or gay people”? If the answer is “yes” then slash away!!
I swear, these bastards are cold-hearted.
Food stamp-programs which continue to be large on the Republican’s slashing target, and sadly, are not even offered in this package, are considered to be well worth the money. An independent provider of research, Moody’s Economy, a division of Moody’s Analytics (I respect anyone that can put the word ass next to economy) recently said that one of the fastest ways to infuse money into the economy would be to expand the food stamp program. Predicting that for every dollar spent on the food-stamp program $1.73 is generated throughout the economy.
Let me explain it in simple terms so our friends on the R side of the blog reading public can understand this:
You see, poor people, single working mothers and fathers and the elderly spend money on things like, um, food. They often pay a lower tax rate on the food. Thereby, they can afford even more food for their family.
The study showed that families that live on unemployment and food-stamps spend that money right away, thus benefiting the economy faster, and even create that “trickle down” that Raygun was always yapping on about. Groceries purchased with that dollar quickly go back to pay grocery employees, to the trucks that deliver, to the distributors and all the way back to the farmers that grew the food.
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