Posted on 03/12/2009 7:04:09 AM PDT by Born Conservative
To those hurt by the recession but too proud to seek government help, Gov. Ed Rendell says: If not for yourself, do it for your country.
He urged people to view food stamps not as welfare, but as economic stimulus.
"Think of it this way: If you avail yourself of these sources of government relief, you'll have money to spend in the economy, and that's exactly what we need to reboot the economy," Rendell said Wednesday at Brashear High School in Beechview. His 45-minute address was televised live to gatherings in six other cities.
Property owners should take advantage of tax credits for such things as weatherizing homes, which could put people to work immediately, he said.
Some economists, however, questioned whether programs such as food stamps should be pitched as economic stimulus.
"What people really would like to do is work and find jobs that pay them well," said Robert Strauss, professor of economics and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. "What the governor should be doing is encouraging companies not to lay off people and to (attract) businesses to Pennsylvania."
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Fast Eddie strikes again...
Yeah, c’mon. All the cool kids are doing it.
Fast Eddie and tax payers money
No, funding USAF half a trillion dollars to achieve space superiority would be stimulus.
These RAT idiots want to raise the price on everything by imposing the cap and trade tax on all energy use, then when you can no longer afford food because you can’t afford the price imposed by all the energy used to grow, process and transport the food, why then just swallow your pride and accept welfare in the form of free food. Next thing you know we will have lines to get food like in the old Soviet Union. Can’t wait.
No scrappleface? Yikes, they are getting bold.
Insanity!
Message is: "Take advantage of your hard working neighbor, take his money and spend it on yourself--for your country!
I'm speechless.
War is Peace. Freedom is slavery. Orwell would have been so proud of the democrat party!!
What’s white is black, what’s up is down......
Well he’s convinced ME.
But I suppose MY food stamps will arrive at about the same time my replacement “Skittles-Crapping Magic Unicorn” gets here (my first one was delivered in late January by Fed-Ex without any trouble - but it died after only two days - and without pushing out ONE single skittle).
Food Stamps are most certainly Welfare. You go to the Welfare Office to get them. It’s government coupons they give you. He implies if you get food stamps you’ll have money to spend on fun stuff. This guys thinking is why we are sinking.
He is an idiot.
Nope. Food stamps are welfare. Those in genuine need should accept food stamps not as a lifestyle but as a temporary bridge from one job to the next. I have no problem with people who accept them for a brief period. Accepting government charity is something to be ashamed of, because you are taking from others against their will, but there is a time to hang your head and accept that shame for the good of your family.
Forget your self-respect. Everyone on the Dependency Train now!!
1984 could have been titled : Unintended Prophecy
I wonder how every dollar of debt effects the GDP in lost income.
Well, just more “growing the economy from the bottom up”. People need to actually think about such nonsense BEFORE they vote for some snake oil salesman.
Now THERE’S a theory of econimcs I haven’t heard before!
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