Foodstamps

[Pat Mustard]

This could hurt me, as I rely on food stamps. I can do work, if I can find it, but I have poor hearing and eyesight, and a few other mental hang-ups. Politicians get paid off to give the rich tax cuts and subsidies, but they know they need money to run the country, so they have to go after the poor and middle class. Which is pretty much the opposite of how it should be.

And it doesn't deliver the money needed to run a country either.

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Right, anyway, I'm not sure why we'd need new math.  The regular old math works fine.  We already spend enough on food assistance programs to feed every american..and we're just not building houses even though our population already needs more houses than we have.  Every dollar we spend on assistance programs generates something like 1.70 in economic activity, and construction jobs are highly sought after.

There's simply no reason not to seriously consider this kind of project.  The money is already there, we already spend it for this purpose, and we don't get what we could for it - which is a thing that we strongly believe benefits the overall economy.  Meanwhile, doing things the way we've been doing them costs us at least an additional 160bil USD before we factor in whatever value we want to use for the loss due to renting and homelessness.

We can't be having that kind of talk Gaebo, you plan makes social and economic sense.