Bill O'Reilly is going to a segment demeaning food stamps
no surprise here but listen last week Fox News ran a one-hour special on the
Food Stamp situation is par that
John Roberts track down a surfer in California who is eating on the
taxpayers dime
the food stamp program was designed to be for a point in your life
where you were beer down things were going well
it's not quote a point in your life its gonna this is life for me
yeah this is
tower then cute chicks do anything
you know this is the way round do you really see anything changing
I got a paycheck coming in Psych of i joining us now from los angeles
Fox News Editor at Large Peter Boyer who also appeared in that food stamps report
so it's a headline for you on the story hey bill at I mean I guess in a way the
headline is
because I you just showed Jason Jason the surfer dude I mean if you have a
a federal program that has grown to be this huge it has grown
so rapidly that it cost
three billion dollars a year
just to administer I mean just to hand out food stamps a guy like Jason the
surfer dude
lawyer is almost inevitable consequence
when you have a this kinda
a situation where President Obama has knocked out
a by executive order a lot of the work rules attached to food stamps and other
entitlements
you know basically anybody can get on if they
know how to game the system in this guide is no way this guy should be get
government assistance at all he goes out in service all day
chases the women at night plays guitar doesn't care
where we support nice guy I tell you bill I talked to Jason today
and on he had a message for you which i'll convey to you why
get back to you are not going very well so everybody not tell everybody feels
this is message to me
he said he said listen and live in the rat life 5 you tell mister O'Reilly
although he didn't saying that you tell or I'll if there's a problem with that
he can
kiss my you know you're OK you know he's leaving Iraq life I agree with that he's
a rat
are yours as well point here's where you but your premises partly wrong in this
regard is not gaming
the system I mean as far as Jason's concerned and in fact
as far as the system is concerned he's not gaming
much value yeaa me I wasn't Peter let me can I tell you wise gaming at I took one
look at this guy and he's making money off the books
now I'm not going to make any accusation on national television about how is
making money
but this guy's just not say you know surviving on food stamps
I did making money not that you're at life you know entails a lot of different
things
and he's not declaring that money is put his pocket whatever he might be legal
might be a legal we don't know
okay yes but this is this guy is a parasite and my
contention is that the Obama administration is encouraging parasites
to come out
and you know take as much as they can with no remorse
and this is how a country declines that's the classic Fox trick
take the one person on food stands who is such a tremendous douchebag
and yes is committing fraud
and say well he's a you know the face of the program he represents the entire
program
know we doesn't he's
obviously an extreme case he's not the rule you the exception to the rule
when they seen the implication is well see how he is I mean I guess we are
never ever send program to see what happens
wrong wrong wrong let me give you some numbers
and we went over this yesterday over forty percent of people on food stamps
are hard working people they have a job they have a job
but they don't make enough money to eat and pay direct
I mean we have an entire class of people in the US
working poor working poor
so a lot of work a full time job but they all live
above the poverty line that's not a problem with them it's not a personal
problem
that's a systemic problem that's a problem with that
established system in the way works that's a problem with the economic
system
well we want to know toward a full time job more great jobs
that's unreasonable thats unrealistic now
the other people who are getting food stamps
but I don't work they're looking for jobs
you're looking for jobs but there are more people than job openings in the
United States on the math just simply doesn't work out
and the remaining people who take food stamps and don't work
they are over 60 and under-18
toroto who would you like to kick off a senior citizens are the miners
yeah I think one if you are capable of its gonna be all people
or the young people and let me ask you this question
seventy-five percent of the American people are living
paycheck to paycheck and this is what you focus on
in your expose the one asshole who is
leaching of the system why not do a story on
are a few dollars the actual fraud rate in food stamps
1 percent wanna do a story on the other
ninety-nine percent of people that need the food stamps are barely getting by
and are doing their best in life but the fallen on hard times
that expose doesn't happen on Fox just wanted to do spec
welcome the average person on food stamps makes about nine thousand dollars
a year
if you take away their program the either starve or become homeless
which one you want bill or do you actually want them to be home wasn't a
star
they're trying to make it seem like being in poverty
is somehow an ideal situation they're showing this guy is like
relax and hang out with girls playing his guitar
again they found no one percent of people who
take advantage in the program and they disregard the overwhelming majority
they wanna throw the baby out with the bath water and go back to a time
like we had during the depression where there was no suicidal safety net
and all you have is there are rich and the rest of us fighting for the crimes
that is Fox's ideal system