Thread: Democrats’ latest idea: gas stamps

Democrats’ latest idea: gas stamps

By Alexander Bolton
Posted: 09/11/08 07:41 PM [ET]

As the U.S. economy teeters on the brink of recession, Democratic leaders are revisiting an idea born of the Great Depression: gas stamps to help Americans cope with high fuel prices.

The proposal to subsidize fuel costs for lower-income families and individuals would almost certainly be popular with white, working-class voters and could boost Barack Obama’s appeal with that critical voting bloc in this year’s presidential election.

Democratic lawmakers and their leaders say they are serious about including it in a second economic stimulus package expected to move this month. Meanwhile, Republicans ridicule the idea as a return to welfare-state politics, which they say characterized the Democratic Party before Bill Clinton.

“It’s certainly under consideration,â€

Gas stamps.........another stimulas check..........where does it stop? When China owns every last one of us? That's where the government is borrowing all the money they are spending!

Yep this is really brilliant, the Democrats want Americans to buy more gas but they don't want to produce any more oil, where the heck do they think that gas will come from?

What alternate universe are these people living in?