Food Stamp Program Is Economic Stimulus. Really?

Our Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack,  says that food stamps are the best possible stimulus for job creation.

But wait a second.  I thought that Nancy Pelosi said that unemployment benefits are the biggest stimulus for the economy.  She says that it creates jobs faster than any other initiative that you can name.

I think that both programs are needed and am glad that they are there.  But it's the mindset that troubles me.  These powerful and supposedly smart government officials thinking that these programs are a great way to create jobs? 

I wonder where the money for these stimulative programs came from.  Did the money come from a taxpayer?  Then there's a taxpayer who has less money to go out and buy something.  Did the money come from government borrowing?  Then my kids are on the hook for paying it back with interest.

I can't wait to see Obama's jobs program that he says is coming out in September.   With this kind of thinking, let's just give everyone a million bucks to go out and spend.  Maybe make them special bucks that have to be spent in a month or they lose all value.  Before you take that idea too seriously, please think about what money is and where it comes from.  Real money of any value does not come from the government no matter how many people wish that it did.