Wanted: More Food Stamps
Weekend Edition Sunday, November 9, 2008 · More than 29 million Americans are enrolled in the federal food stamp program. This is the highest enrollment in history, save for the period immediately following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Host Liane Hansen discusses the rising need for food assistance with Stacy Dean, director of food assistance policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96793525&ft=1&f=1018
Zero will keep handing out slices of pie funded not by taxing the rich into the ground (well ... that too, of course) but by borrowing. That is the answer to the question “How will he pay for all this crap?”
Where do you think all that money spent on the bailouts ($850 billion was just part of the giveaway) came from? And the stimulus package? And the NEW stimulus package? It’s all borrowing, folks ... billions and billions of it.
As scary as that may be, there is a ray of sunshine.
SCARY: One of these days, our rich international friends will no longer loan us any more money. Faith in the United States is all that keeps our dollar as the world’s reserve currency. But one day, sooner or later, our friends will pull the plug on our drunken spending binge and tell us to sober up. Or worse, they’ll announce the sale of all their U.S. financial assets on the open market, then the dollar will once again be “not worth a Continental.”
HOPEFUL: Real, rock-ribbed fiscal conservatives will have the only answer, and it will sell with taxpayers, especially after four years of Zero’s abusive taxation coupled with a plummeting standard of living and wild inflation. We got into this mess because GWB wouldn’t veto any of the drunken spending that crossed his desk and now we’ve got to settle the bar tab. Conservatives will be the only voice of reason in four years, so start laying the groundwork.