The Obama administration’s view of government spending and jobs gets weirder with time. Now its luminaries are touting the job-creating goodness of food stamps. In an Aug. 16 interview with MSNBC, Sec. of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said the food-stamp problem “is putting people back to work.” The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), he asserted, is “an economic stimulus,” he asserted. “Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity,” Vilsack said. “If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs.” Well, yes, those are jobs. But most...