Gutfeld: Food Stamps "Necessary" But Becoming "The Liberal Alternative To Currency"

Nothing like a channel full of selfish rich people being paid and fed information from even more selfish and richer people blaming all Americas problems on programs for the less fortunate.

But the poor people own and control everything, including the news channels, and it's the Democrats who do class warfare, right?

From what I understand, there are no food "stamps", but rather a food Debit card. This makes fraud almost impossible. This whole thing is just an attack on people in need. One more group of people the right is alinating for what ever reason.
If all the Rs get for votes are rich people and militials, they have no chance of anything.

Gutfeld fancies himself as a journalist when in fact he is just another entertainer, so gibberish is part of his schtick.

Gutfeld wrote for frat-boy humor magazine Maxim before Fox hand picked him to be something of a conservative Jon Stewart. That failed utterly, but Gutfeld repeats the talking points and makes outrageous statements, so they kept him.

I've got a way to make Fux, Rush, and all the wingnuts go all out to protect food stamps as we know them. Add junk food to cigs and booze as forbidden items: ban chips, soft drinks, hot dogs and anything with empty calories, such as cookies and cakes. Then stand back and watch these people howl, "Get your government hands off my food stamps!!!"

Is to you anybody who gets government benefits a "free loader"? People who work receive food stamps.

Do you know that there are many more taxes beyond federal income tax? I doubt it.

Will this penetrate your bubble, dave?

Well dave,

Back at the turn of last century a basic wage was defined as that required for a man to support a dependent spouse and two children.

I recall, some years back, seeing figures that showed that in the U.S. many families required 3-4 wages in order to keep their heads above water. This, additionally, compelled the co-option of grandparents as unpaid child carers/rearers. In this case, the family unit is contributing 4 times its deemed share to the economy plus the unpaid contribution of the grandparents.

A job is a job and every job, no matter how small, plays an integral part in the functioning of an economy. An economy that requires any person to have more than one job in order to survive can be deemed to be malfunctioning (remember, one critical element of an economy is that it functions as a society).

Programs such as "food stamps" deal with the failure of the employment/wage sector of the economy. Without such a program much of the labour at the bottom end of the would be unavailable (malnutrition is a killer, sometimes literally, with regard to the availability and competence of employees).
The food stamps program is, in fact, a subsidy to employers by keeping their lower paid workers alive as well as maintaining a pool of potential labour (thus enabling them to keep wages low).

dave

Yes we know that soulless subhuman garbage like you just HATES the idea of feeding starving children. It would be so much more entertaining if you could buy tickets to WATCH them suffer and DIE from hunger. YOU are a parasite. You contribute NOTHING to the human race and are the very definition of being a freeloader.