Oh, just stop it. You keep trying to make it look like the government has it’s hands in YOUR pocket and only yours and it just ain’t true.

Just came across an ad for my local Food Lion: sliced ham on sale for 3.99 a pound. Damn that Obama! There would have been more stimulus if he’d paid retail!

But you took money from your employer. That’s money s/he could’ve spent that s/he cannot. How is that any different?

Don’t you have all that Iraqi freedom cash to spread around?

Maybe Obama could start and fail at least 2 more wars, as that’s done your economy so much good up until January 20/2009, when the world literally went to Hell.

Why oh why didn’t 70% of the voting public listen to John McCain?

What?…..they DID?….oh right….he lost.

Amazing how there was always money to be found for wars and mercenaries and secret prisons and assassin squads, but there never seems to be enough to actually mend a fucked up economy or health care or useless shit like that.

…and/or civilization.

It is too stimulative if the person you receive it from needs less stimulating than the person you give it to. In normal circumstances we call that progressive taxation.

Period.

End of Sentence.

Basta cosi.

Oh, except that the government can also borrow against expectation of future revenue more easily than people who need stimulus, and when they buy stuff with that money it’s stimulating.

if I spend it, yes. If you spend it, yes. But the only way the goverment can spend it is if they take it from someone else. And that’s NOT stimulative.

Period.

It’s this level of right wing stupidity that leaves me despairing for or country.

Spending is inherently “stimulative” and job-creating.

If you spend money it stimulates the economy. Period. It doesn’t even matter what you spend the money on, spending is economically “stimulative”.

In this instance, buying food means that a farmer sold something they produced; a picker and/or canner, cutter, or bagger kept their job; a driver transported it; and in some cases, a store sold it.

Those are several ‘jobs’ that were ‘stimulated’.

USDA.gov: “While the principal purpose of these expenditures is to provide food to those hardest hit by these tough times, the purchases also provide a modest economic benefit of benefiting Americans working at food retailers, manufacturers and transportation companies as well as the farmers and ranchers who produce our food supply.” “

Yes, because no one works in the meat packing industry in this country. And people really don’t mind going hungry while they are looking for work.

Now, I haven’t bought meat in a while, but $1.50/lb doesn’t seem that unreasonable.