Anyone upset about food stamps is scum

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2. Yes, I do.

I take your point. But there is nothing that will not be used in unpopular ways.

You are probably (sorry to put words in your mouth) upset by some food stamp recipients, not by food stamps. And you probably recognize that the program is way up because of the rising poverty rate, not because Obama wants everyone to be dependent on the government.

Food stamps have value and people do use them to buy drugs and booze and cigarettes. There is a black market for food stamps. All true.

But excesses and abuses are (largely) unavoidable features of any program. There are people on unemployment insurance that could get a job tomorrow but prefer not to. Many medicare claims are fraudulant. All true.

Any program will have abuses because the only alternative is to cut the program down to a size where genuinely needy people will be left with nothing. There has to be some room for excess in order to reach all the target population.