Fox News Lies About Food Stamp Fraud: UPDATED
Mother Jones' Kevin Drum completely destroys Fox News' attempts at claiming there is 70 million dollars of fraud being committed on our food stamp program known as SNAP.
Fox News' Abby Huntsman claimed that food stamp fraud is at an all time high and asked, "...this year it's estimated $70 million dollars of taxpayer money was wasted on food stamp fraud. Is it time to end the program altogether?"
Her guests were New York City Councilman Joe Borelli and 2008 Clinton campaign adviser Jehmu Greene to discuss this issue.
If you can find the sourcing of this abuse, please let us know because their graphic says "2016 USDA." Is that code for Breitbart?
It's just like Fox News to promote a story about a government program they claim is wasting tax payer dollars and then call for it to be ended.
However, they never break down any of their numbers and go off on another conservative conspiracy to a program that helps millions of Americans.
I'd love to see Fox News do a story on all the billionaires and corporations that cheat the US government and the American people out of billions of dollars so they can relax in their villas.
Unfortunately, they are more interested in attacking people just trying to get a meal.