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Courtesy Flush

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Feb 2013

He objected to my assertion that the conservative media inflates the 49% claim. He said the figure does not include veterans or pensioners. He said he was tired of the liberal spin on this.

So I googled and found the numbers. Less than 20% of Americans receive food stamp benefits. I told him that those numbers include children, elderly, veterans, and working people who are still in poverty, but giving him the benefit of the doubt, and assuming a FoxNews interpretation (that all of them are lazy mooches) that still leaves 29% unaccounted for.

He had no response.

More Facebook stupidity [View all] Courtesy Flush Feb 2013 OP
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