Sponsors of this spending call it a humane response to soaring hardship and an economically productive one; giving money to the poor stimulates the economy, they say, because poor people are quick to spend it. Conservatives have argued that poverty programs undermine work and marriage, and some see the stimulus bill as a stealth expansion of the welfare state.It would undermine work? Where is this work? See, because the BLS is putting out crazy numbers about 600,000 jobs having been lost last month, among others. Maybe, instead of deriding the president's plan to help people lift themselves up after losing their jobs, their homes, and their retirement security, Republicans ought to just tell Departments Labor and Commerce about the wonderful new opportunities that these strapping young bucks have all somehow been too lazy to find.
Oh, wait--they don't know of any new work? They're just race-baiting and partisan-hacking against the popular majority because they have a rump caucus and a governing philosophy that has been disproven time and again in the last thirty years? In other words, they're out of options and digging into the public goodwill fostered by last year's historic election just to buy time and to kill the only ideas being posited to help Americans out of this recession? Oh, okay.
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