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http://www.inquisitr.com/901153/jason-g ... -fox-news/According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service, the fraud and waste rate in SNAP is roughly 1 percent, contrary to recent Fox claims that the program is rife with fraud.
Unlike Greenslate, 41 percent of food stamp recipients live "in a household with earnings," and use SNAP benefits to supplement their primary source of income. Furthermore, the USDA reports that most food stamp recipients stay in the program for only a short period of time:
Half of all new SNAP participants received benefits for 10 months or less in the mid 2000s, up from 8 months in the early 2000s. Single parent families and elderly individuals tended to stay in the program longer than did working poor individuals, childless adults without disabilities, and noncitizens. Seventy-four percent of new participants left the program within two years. This is an increase from 71 percent in the early 1990s.
Fox's attempt to demonize food stamp recipients as a caricature of willful dependency ignores the fact that SNAP kept 4.7 million people out of poverty in 2011, many of whom are children or the elderly. Unlike Greenslate, the majority of these individuals relied on the program not because of laziness, but necessity.
Surely it would not have been difficult for Fox to find a realistic face of food stamp recipients, as 76% of SNAP households include a child, elderly person, or disabled American. This dishonest depiction of SNAP is the latest example of Fox's longstanding tradition of maligning the poor.
Don't get me wrong, this guy Jason is an idiot who deserves nothing from taxpayers. To spin the story around the way Fox has manipulates the simple-minded.Maybe it’s awesome to him. For most of us, let’s be honest. A $200-a-month hustle simply isn’t worth our time. Of course, the idiotic Fox News report has angered serious political observers on the left. Media Matters pointed out that to call Jason Greenslate the face of SNAP is itself food stamp fraud. He is far from typical. In fact, MM said 76 percent of SNAP households included a child or an older or disabled person. They also noted that 41 percent of SNAP recipients do work. The work simply doesn’t pay enough to keep hunger away without the food stamps.
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Did I say that? Don't put words in my mouth.Gerald285 wrote:So you believe the government?
That's how FOX makes their living.Humboldt wrote:To spin the story around the way Fox has manipulates the simple-minded.
TrueRoody wrote:That's how FOX makes their living.
Bit of both I'd say.Humboldt wrote:True
Who has the larger part in perpetuating the BS spin stories...Fox or the weak-minded that take it as gospel?
Is it Gerald's fault for taking the bait and passing it on, or Fox's for targeting the simple people out there?
I agree. The way things are currently, I wonder if anyone knows how many people would starve to death without a safety net. To me, this is just another form of getting others to go at each others throats. More division and hatred.9mmprincess wrote:When i was growing up, for a time, my mom got food stamps. We got government cheese, too. So did people we knew. None of us were "working the system". My mom worked her ass off all her life - she just needed some help at some points.
Even if there IS fraud, does that mean the programs should be discontinued? Lets let kids starve, because god forbid a few *******s jack the system.
I thought AL Gore sold them that channel....downhill wrote:I can't believe the Fox bashing in this thread... ....
You folk need to be more respectable. After all, more viewers over 65 watch it than any other news source.
Side Note. Al Jazeera is coming to America and the funny thing is? My guess is it'll probably be more accurate and less political BS than Faux News.