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Steny Hoyer: Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance are the Two Most ‘Stimulative’ Things You Can Do

AmericanLiberal Wrote: Jul 19, 2012 8:56 AM
This familiar and stupid argument. If you are a liberal, give away your salary. In other word, as liberals, we are obliged to either be fools or hypocrites. Sorry, losers, we'll take neither. We have the right to chase our personal interests, even as we think rationally about the public interest. Suggest you try it--instead of pretending that your personal interest IS the public interest.
francisdesales Wrote: Jul 19, 2012 9:39 AM
The point is "put your money where your mouth is"...

Liberals don't think "rationally" about public interest, since they are concerned about THEIR interests, not the nation's as a whole. The Constitution provides enumerated powers. LIMITED. But liberals and other such "experts" prefer to think otherwise.
Marc_H Wrote: Jul 19, 2012 9:14 AM
hey skippy

you have no right to use goverment to steal from one group to give it to another

the only right you hae it to use YOUR wealth to help others

you are a liar, thief, traitor to the US Constitution

Some Dems never learn. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer recently pushed the tired argument that federal handouts are a great way of stimulating the economy. Via CNSNews:

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday that food stamps and unemployment insurance are the two "most stimulative" things you can do for the economy.

During a pen and pad briefing with reporters on Capitol Hill, Hoyer was asked if any Democrats are “reconsidering the wisdom” of letting the Bush tax cuts expire at year’s end for the top income earners given the still struggling...
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