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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: koan who wrote (757829)12/14/2013 11:07:43 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1576607
 
That is nonsense, the pubs want to cut food stamps

Maybe you can read their minds. I can only judge by their actions. Their actions have been to put forward proposals which would reduce the growth of food stamps, that isn't the same thing as cutting food stamps.

We need stimulus

1 - With the very large deficit we effectively have "stimulus"

2 - At best stimulus keeps the worst of a recession from being as bad as it otherwise would have been. It isn't a ticket for strong growth going forward. The recession has been over now for awhile.

And the poor are not lazy!

I didn't say they where.

Many are. Many are not. Some are very hard working.

Others aren't so much lazy as responding to the incentives some of these programs create. For example I know a person who only works enough to make no more than $1k per month so as not to lose benefits. That person isn't lazy, at least not unusually so. But it would be very hard for them to get enough extra money to make up for the lost benefits, unless they can increase their income by a lot, extra money means a loss of income. And even in the unlikely event that the income can be increased by enough to make up for the lost benefits, it would mean a lot more work for very little additional money. Its like facing a marginal tax rate of 90% (or actually more likely over 100%, perhaps well over, because they probably can't increase their earned income enough to cover the benefit loss).
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