Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Bill O'Reilly is going to a segment demeaning food stamps no surprise here but listen last week Fox News ran a one-hour special on the Food Stamp situation is par that John Roberts track down a surfer in California who is eating on the taxpayers dime the food stamp program was designed to be for a point in your life where you were beer down things were going well it's not quote a point in your life its gonna this is life for me yeah this is tower then cute chicks do anything you know this is the way round do you really see anything changing I got a paycheck coming in Psych of i joining us now from los angeles Fox News Editor at Large Peter Boyer who also appeared in that food stamps report so it's a headline for you on the story hey bill at I mean I guess in a way the headline is because I you just showed Jason Jason the surfer dude I mean if you have a a federal program that has grown to be this huge it has grown so rapidly that it cost three billion dollars a year just to administer I mean just to hand out food stamps a guy like Jason the surfer dude lawyer is almost inevitable consequence when you have a this kinda a situation where President Obama has knocked out a by executive order a lot of the work rules attached to food stamps and other entitlements you know basically anybody can get on if they know how to game the system in this guide is no way this guy should be get government assistance at all he goes out in service all day chases the women at night plays guitar doesn't care where we support nice guy I tell you bill I talked to Jason today and on he had a message for you which i'll convey to you why get back to you are not going very well so everybody not tell everybody feels this is message to me he said he said listen and live in the rat life 5 you tell mister O'Reilly although he didn't saying that you tell or I'll if there's a problem with that he can kiss my you know you're OK you know he's leaving Iraq life I agree with that he's a rat are yours as well point here's where you but your premises partly wrong in this regard is not gaming the system I mean as far as Jason's concerned and in fact as far as the system is concerned he's not gaming much value yeaa me I wasn't Peter let me can I tell you wise gaming at I took one look at this guy and he's making money off the books now I'm not going to make any accusation on national television about how is making money but this guy's just not say you know surviving on food stamps I did making money not that you're at life you know entails a lot of different things and he's not declaring that money is put his pocket whatever he might be legal might be a legal we don't know okay yes but this is this guy is a parasite and my contention is that the Obama administration is encouraging parasites to come out and you know take as much as they can with no remorse and this is how a country declines that's the classic Fox trick take the one person on food stands who is such a tremendous douchebag and yes is committing fraud and say well he's a you know the face of the program he represents the entire program know we doesn't he's obviously an extreme case he's not the rule you the exception to the rule when they seen the implication is well see how he is I mean I guess we are never ever send program to see what happens wrong wrong wrong let me give you some numbers and we went over this yesterday over forty percent of people on food stamps are hard working people they have a job they have a job but they don't make enough money to eat and pay direct I mean we have an entire class of people in the US working poor working poor so a lot of work a full time job but they all live above the poverty line that's not a problem with them it's not a personal problem that's a systemic problem that's a problem with that established system in the way works that's a problem with the economic system well we want to know toward a full time job more great jobs that's unreasonable thats unrealistic now the other people who are getting food stamps but I don't work they're looking for jobs you're looking for jobs but there are more people than job openings in the United States on the math just simply doesn't work out and the remaining people who take food stamps and don't work they are over 60 and under-18 toroto who would you like to kick off a senior citizens are the miners yeah I think one if you are capable of its gonna be all people or the young people and let me ask you this question seventy-five percent of the American people are living paycheck to paycheck and this is what you focus on in your expose the one asshole who is leaching of the system why not do a story on are a few dollars the actual fraud rate in food stamps 1 percent wanna do a story on the other ninety-nine percent of people that need the food stamps are barely getting by and are doing their best in life but the fallen on hard times that expose doesn't happen on Fox just wanted to do spec welcome the average person on food stamps makes about nine thousand dollars a year if you take away their program the either starve or become homeless which one you want bill or do you actually want them to be home wasn't a star they're trying to make it seem like being in poverty is somehow an ideal situation they're showing this guy is like relax and hang out with girls playing his guitar again they found no one percent of people who take advantage in the program and they disregard the overwhelming majority they wanna throw the baby out with the bath water and go back to a time like we had during the depression where there was no suicidal safety net and all you have is there are rich and the rest of us fighting for the crimes that is Fox's ideal system
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