[greenwich26]

$900 million = 5 days of federal food stamps spending

$3-4 billion = 3 weeks of federal food stamps spending

I know which I think is the better government expenditure

[scotth]

That's a pretty gross way of thinking. Yuck.

[greenwich26]

Not an argument.

[scotth]

Was your comment an argument? Looked like an opinion. Responded in kind.

[tehbeard]

As a counterpoint, $900 million to get rural America actual broadband, where cable companies used similiar handouts to line their own pockets and do nothing...

We're in a "Give a man a fish/teach a man to fish" type hypothetical now.

[Layke1123]

Still a government handout to private corporation.

[enchiridion]

It's a country investing in infrastructure.

A hand out is bailing out failing auto makers, forgiving debt arbitrarily, etc, etc.