Tax Cuts vs. Food Stamps

From Harper's Index:

Estimated amount by which the U.S. GDP increases for each additional dollar of tax cuts:
$1.03
Amount for each additional dollar of infrastructure spending and food stamps, respectively:
$1.59, $1.73

Are Republicans, supposedly the business minded and business friendly party, unaware of this fact? Maybe I don't have such a great business acumen but I have always thought a 73% or even a meagrer 59% return on investment is much better than a 3% return. But then again, the Republicans were at the helm when the economy went into the toilet, so what do they know.

What are we waiting for, Obama? Let's start feeding people and building bridges!!!

Don't candles also make greenhouses gases?

From an Antarctic research base to the Great Pyramids of Egypt and beyond, the world switched off the lights on Saturday for Earth Hour, dimming skyscrapers, city streets and some of the world's most recognizable monuments for 60 minutes to highlight the threat of climate change.

Sounds like a good idea. But I am not sure if everyone got the idea completely.

"In Australia, people attended candlelit speed-dating events..."

Candles burn oxygen creating carbon dioxide, a green house gas. Therefore they were still adding to the problem.

"A key 2010 football World Cup qualifier against Serbia posed a dilemma for Romanians. "Shall we watch the match or turn off the lights?," the 7plus daily asked in its main front-page headline."

Couldn't they just play the game during the day time when there is carbon free light?

"McDonald's Corp. planned to dim its arches at 500 locations around the U.S. Midwest"

Why not stop selling burgers for an hour? The consumption of meat adds more to global warming than transportation.