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(47,245 posts) Fri Jun 21, 2013, 11:39 AM Jun 2013

Once again Gomer puts foot firmly in mouth... [View all]

Doesn't this bonehead realize that using food stamps to buy luxury food like crab legs results in running out at the end of the month?

I guess he doesn't.

They just can't stop themselves. When they're not doing their best to use that evil "big gubmit" to regulate women's vaginas, one of Republicans' favorite ways to spend their time is beating up on the poor -- as old "terror babies" Louie Gohmert decided to do on the floor of the House this Thursday afternoon.

Gohmert: Cutting food stamps not evil because poor people buy king crab legs:

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/gohmert-cutting-food-stamps-not-evil-becau

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Once again Gomer puts foot firmly in mouth... [View all] Archae Jun 2013 OP

There is widespread abuse just as Gohmert describes. Lasher Jun 2013 #1

And they put that food into the trunks of their Cadillacs, right? Archae Jun 2013 #2

No, I'll just stick to the way I said it. Lasher Jun 2013 #3

ANY government program can be misused like this. Archae Jun 2013 #4

It gets more complicated. Lasher Jun 2013 #6

Example A can't happen anymore jmowreader Jun 2013 #9

The switch to the EBT debit card hasn�t stopped this sort of fraud. Lasher Jun 2013 #15

You described what I described jmowreader Jun 2013 #18

so? n2doc Jun 2013 #5

I think I'll just stick to the argument I am actually making. Lasher Jun 2013 #7

You said there is 'abuse' n2doc Jun 2013 #8

OK, fair enough. Lasher Jun 2013 #16

Fair enough n2doc Jun 2013 #20

Yes, I realize Gohmert is trying to do exactly that. Lasher Jun 2013 #21

I don't worry about people buying luxury food on food stamps. rrneck Jun 2013 #10

Depends on where you buy King Crab legs and how often. haele Jun 2013 #11

Louie only opens his mouth to swap feet. hobbit709 Jun 2013 #12

But but but SNOPES says it is true! Rex Jun 2013 #13

The poor and long-term unemployed would move towards eternal marginalization in their world ck4829 Jun 2013 #14

Gohmert is a prick of the highest order duuser5822 Jun 2013 #17

Let us know when Gohmert takes foot OUT of his mouth. FSogol Jun 2013 #19