Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	Porkulus II .... Pelosi is desparate to save seats
Date:	8/10/2010 8:21:18 AM

The money comes from somewhere.  Fact is, it comes out of the economy.  If money is withdrawn from the economy, then employment suffers.  Folks who have money (e.g.savings for retirement, for a new car, rainy day fund, etc.) become more and more reluctant to spend. 

Nobody is this stupid Pelosi, Reid... Obama... they must be doing this on purpose.

Name:	lotowner -	Reply
Subject:	Porkulus II .... Food Stamp Cuts
Date:	8/11/2010 12:31:32 PM

Democrats, Advocacy Groups Blast Cuts to Food Stamps to Fund $26B Aid Bill

Some Democrats are upset and advocacy groups are outraged over the raiding of the food-stamp cupboard to fund a state-aid bailout that some call a gift to teachers and government union workers.

House members convened Tuesday and passed the multibillion-dollar bailout bill for cash-strapped states that provides $10 billion to to rehire laid-off teachers or ensure that more teachers won't be let go before the new school year begins, keeping more than 160,000 teachers on the job, the Obama administration says.

But the bill also requires that $12 billion be stripped from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps, to help fund the new bill, prompting some Democrats to cringe at the notion of cutting back on one necessity to pay for another. The federal assistance program currently helps 41 million Americans.