On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Judah wrote: > I'm not keen on further debt either. But I don't get how extending > unemployment benefits and money for food stamps is unconstitutional or > why we wouldn't need them.
It's not unconstitutional, but it is a bad idea. We need to be helping businesses create jobs, not keeping people on the dole. Are we just supposed to say "Fuck the poor!"? lol, that just reminded me of Mel Brooks. I would much prefer to see an economic stimulus plan that pushes job creation for small business. There are already lots of existing programs to help small business, veteran-owned business, minority-owned business, woman-owned business. Let's make those programs bigger. Let's make a concerted effort to hire those firms for federal government contracts. These are the people that make new jobs in this country. And while we're at it, let's not raise capital gains taxes or high-income tax bracket taxes. The people that will be affected by these tax hikes are the ones we need to dig us out of this mess by hiring workers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:273662 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
