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“Hoyer: Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance 2 ‘Most Stimulative’ Things for Economy”

Yes, he did say that.

Every time the GOP nominates a RINO, pits him against a contemporary leftist Democrat, and the RINO (inevitably) loses, a little bit of me dies / an angel has one if its wings ripped off at the root by a shrieking hellish demon, who then rubs salt and lemon into the bloody stump wound.

12 Replies to ““Hoyer: Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance 2 ‘Most Stimulative’ Things for Economy””

  1. geoffb says:

    Food stamps, soon to resemble the 20s Reich-mark.

  2. palaeomerus says:

    If we collect the money from you, dip our beaks and then give some of it back to you and buy votes with the rest it’s better for the economy than if we just didn’t collect the money in the first place and left it with you. Because you won’t spend money until we’ve taken it from you and given only part of it back months later. Science.

  3. dicentra says:

    Every time [you do X] an angel gets new baby-seal slippers. —a wag at my company

  4. Squid says:

    “Because those folks who receive those resources must spend them. And they’ll spend them almost upon receipt. Most economists with whom I talk believe that those with significant discretionary income, that that’s not the case.”

    Did none of the reporters ask him what non-foodstamp people do with their ‘significant’ discretionary income, if they’re not spending it immediately? I’ll bet those losers put it in a bank or a mutual fund, where it just sits there doing nothing at all* for the economy.

    But hey — let’s just give billions to Archer Daniels Midland to subsidize their efforts at turning corn into alcohol that nobody can drink, and then give billions more to voters so they can afford the tiny bit of corn that’s left for eating.

    When I’m Emperor, any district that sends a tool like Hoyer to represent them gets nuked from orbit. ‘Tis the only way to be sure.

    *Except, you know, financing business expansions and that sort of thing.

  5. leigh says:

    Wholesale foods prices, indexed for inflation, have risen mainly on dairy and protein (meats and fish) products from 7-10% in the past 12 months. I had a handy chart but I can’t find it now.

    My household bookkeeping shows food prices trending upward, along with fuel prices including power for our homes.

    Weimar Republik isn’t too far wrong.

    My gramps used to say that you took your money to the store in a wheelbarrow and brought your groceries home in your coin purse. He had half-pfennig notes too.

  6. Slartibartfast says:

    It’s the leftist fantasy that people buying groceries is what makes an economy great, againstill.

  7. leigh says:

    Squid, I am having a hard time believing Steny (“Most economists with whom I talk….”) Hoyer has ever had a conversation with an actual economist. Or if he did, he fundamentally misunderstood what s/he was saying.

  8. Swen says:

    If you have a nickel in your pocket it’s because the government let you keep it, so be grateful.

  9. B Moe says:

    …then give billions more to voters so they can afford the tiny bit of corn that’s left for eating.

    Or better yet, pay extra to get “grass fed” beef.

    We are too fucking stupid to survive.

  10. leigh says:

    Ranchers are getting their cattle to market early this year since there is just about no grass and they are having to feed-out their cattle. Get ye a chest freezer and stock up!

  11. McGehee says:

    If you have a nickel in your pocket it’s because the government let you keep it

    If it weren’t for the government, that nickel wouldn’t exist, and you never could have “earned” it (chuckle) in the first place.

    /Obama

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