[dinodino]

The “apparently intractable unemployment problem” is partially caused by the huge sums of money being sucked out of the economy to pay for entitlements. Ironically, the EBT cards you champion may actually be viewed as a cause of unemployment.

[muawiyah]

That's what Nancy Pelosi feels about them ~ that they are so munificent they create jobs.

Nope ~ not in a nation of 320 million ~ 47 million on food stamps (at all sorts of levels) is really not a primary driver of the economy.