This graph provided by Moody proves what is the most effective economic stimulator

[CrusaderFrank]

The far right wing has now embraced denial socially, politically, economically, and culturally.

Fact.

So Jake, if everyone was on food stamps, we'd have a booming economy

Jake's ideas fail.

Fact

Snap, I thought you understood. My bad.

Analysis has never been your strength.

Yeah, Jake, that's pretty funny and, as usual, the polar opposite of the truth

 

[The Rabbi]

You are really struggling not to see the truth, aren't you?

Fact -> There are a certain number of people who are not currently working.
Fact -> Getting those people working increases the economy.
Fact -> Giving people who need them food stamps help people get back to work.
Not Fact -> Cutting the top tax rate is a more effective means of growing the economy than giving more money to the SNAP program.
Not Fact -> You are smarter than a first grader.
[Edit] Fact -> People with lots of money and contribute to the Republican Party want their taxes cut and give a shit about anyone else or their country.

Only some of those are facts. Most are opinions. Many of them wrong.
How does giving people food stamps get them back to work?
How is increasing incentives for hard work worse than additional dole for the economy?
The biggest millionaires contribute to the Democrats.

If a woman has the money to go out and buy a nice blouse to wear to a job interview do you think she is more likely to get the job than if she has to wear one with a stain from baby burp on the front of it? Do you think if a guy buys a $200 shirt for a job interview he is more likely to get the job than if he wears the $200 shirt he bought yesterday? (Not that the super rich go to 'job interviews' in the first place.)

Is that an answer to my question?

 

[The Rabbi]

I would think an actual increase in wages would be the best being as they have been so flat for over three decades, Then the consumer class would have more expendable income to boost the economy while working instead of sitting on their wallets.

Wages have not been flat for 3 decades. Are you misreading charts again?

 

[JakeStarkey]

So Jake, if everyone was on food stamps, we'd have a booming economy

Jake's ideas fail.

Fact

Snap, I thought you understood. My bad.

Analysis has never been your strength.

Yeah, Jake, that's pretty funny and, as usual, the polar opposite of the truth

You proved my point.

 

[The Rabbi]

Snap, I thought you understood. My bad.

Analysis has never been your strength.

Yeah, Jake, that's pretty funny and, as usual, the polar opposite of the truth

You proved my point.

That you don't know anything? That everything you know is wrong? That you are Jake Fact-Free Starkey?

 

[Spoonman]

As you can see food stamps and unemployment insurance are the most effective economic stimulators. You see poor people who would otherwise be not spending money are spending money. Every dollar spent on these programs creates economic growth. Tax cuts on the other hand only slow the economy. Extending unemployment insurance was the heart of Obama's stimulus package. That is why it created 2.5 million jobs. The more facts we learn the more we realize just how much bullshit republicanism really is.

Why Extended Federal Unemployment Benefits Boost the Economy

problem is, they are also the biggest drain on taxes. and what happens when the drain becomes larger than the taxable base? well debt initially. until you lose your borrowing power.

what should be number 1 there? jobs. but you don;t see jobs because the jobs created under obama have been low paying and require people to go on food stamps

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Snap, I thought you understood. My bad.

Analysis has never been your strength.

Yeah, Jake, that's pretty funny and, as usual, the polar opposite of the truth

You proved my point.

Jake, it's apparent that you and reality had a bad break up and are no longer on speaking terms

 

[CrusaderFrank]

A train full of food stamps leaves Denver heading east at 50MPH. How long before it falls off the rails?

 

[idb]

If only there were some way to get more money into the accounts of the Job-Creators so that the trickle-down effect starts to happen.
That's the real problem - the super-rich need more of the wealth.