Let me tell you about why my Republican friend likes the Food Stamp program.

[Mr.Bill]

No, he is not receiving them. He is not needy. On the contrary, he made about $500,000 last year.

He is not radical about politics, although he is a Republican and probably voted for Romney. He thinks taxes are too high, and he paid a lot of them last year, as he does every year.

Why does he like the Food Stamp program? Because he owns a Supermarket and employs over 50 people.

Food stamps is not taking people's tax money and giving it to deadbeats. It's taking tax money and giving it to the grocery industry, helping people in need and providing economic stimulus and lots of jobs in the process. Anyone who tells you that cutting food stamps will help the deficit and the economy is full of shit.

[The Magistrate]

1. Your Friend Has A Sound Eye, Sir

Just about everything 'given' to the poor is in fact simply a subsidy for various businesses which the poor serve as a conduit for.

[Control-Z]

2. I am bookmarking this thread.

Both for the OP - and for your perfect summation.

"Just about everything 'given' to the poor is in fact simply a subsidy for various businesses which the poor serve as a conduit for."

[Cha]

3. thank you, Mr Bill! Too bad the corporatemedia won't let him or someone like him

get on tv and explain that to people who don't have a clue.

Yeah, I know.. dream on.

[Lee-Lee]

4. So regular welfare is, in the end, corporate welfare?

[Mr.Bill]

5. I'm just saying

that people who think it's just the government giving money to people are very short sighted. This money follows many paths and serves many purposes along the way. It doesn't end with the grocery store owner, either. He write paychecks, and these people spend the money, too. And on and on and on.

[bvar22]

6. It does, unless....

...it is spent at WalMart.
Then most of it leaves the local area immediately and ends up in "private" pockets.

[Mr.Bill]

7. I have plenty of problems with Walmart

but they do provide jobs (not great ones) and some of the money stays in the community.

[bvar22]

9. The jobs WalMart "provides"...

..are many less than the GOOD jobs WalMart eliminates from communities.

SEE: Main Street in any small town in America that has a Walmart.
All those closed businesses used to provide a good living for their local owners
and good, stable, responsive employment opportunities for the locals that worked there.

[Mr.Bill]

8. Do you really think most of the money

spent at Walmart winds up as profit? No retail business operates at a 50%+ profit margin.

[bvar22]

10. That is not what I said.

The profits made at WalMart DOES immediately leave the local community.
It does NOT have near the multiplier effect as dollars spent at a locally owned businesses.

And PLEASE don't try to point to all the "jobs" at Walmart.
Walmart does NOT "create" jobs.
Walmart STEALS good jobs from local communities, and replaces them with substandard, slave wage jobs.
As has been demonstrated, those low paying WalJobs actually wind up COSTING the local communities in HealthCare and other assorted costs.

[Mr.Bill]

11. I'm in agreement with most of what you say about Walmart.

But this thread is about the food stamp program. Your opinions about Walmart are worthy of their own thread.