First one is "we're not giving you money because if you're poor enough to need it you're screwed anyways", so they do have a similar vibe. The only way poor people can be helped if you follow this logic is by randomly stopping being poor.
Now I don't know the guy, maybe he's gonna tackle the other problems these guys face. I'm just Captain Obviousing here.
Why in the hell would you give a shovel to a guy who only keeps digging himself a deeper hole?
They need jobs, friends, family, not handouts. Especially not at the cost of everyone else, to include those who haven't even been born yet.
That's Dave Ramsay. He has a near genious program on getting out of debt of any size. I took his program a year ago and the guy has some really good ideas. Without knowing who he is it could be difficult to see what he's saying but he's definitely not the type to say "Get stuffed." He's helped hundreds of thousands of people.
The purpose of the stimulus has very little to do with helping the poor, that’s just a side effect, the economic purpose of a stimulus is to put money back into the economy and keep businesses having customers, the idea is that the money will by and large be spent fairly instantly by the people getting it, pumping an influx of business into the local economies around the US, potentially keeping businesses afloat and keeping the country’s overall economy healthy. It’s something that’s been used multiple times successfully in not just the US but in many western countries, it’s a tried and tested tactic to protect the economy during a situation like this.
A friendly reminder that America always was and always will be the land of opportunity, not the land of handouts, not the land of dreams, opportunity. I will admit, one side will defend parasites, and the other will defend vultures. Nobody likes others dictating how others should live, you do you.
Now I don't know the guy, maybe he's gonna tackle the other problems these guys face. I'm just Captain Obviousing here.
They need jobs, friends, family, not handouts. Especially not at the cost of everyone else, to include those who haven't even been born yet.