Okay, so you made an interesting point a few minutes ago and I want to delve into this because I did it just said not even dawned on me.

Yeah.

And that is the media, the liberals are having aneurysm over the fact that some people might have to get off their ass and go to work because the SNAP benefits are expiring on November 1st as of the government

shut down now isn't amazing they're far more up in arms over the SNAP benefits expiring than the

military people or the who aren't collecting paychecks getting paid right yeah but look this is utterly

ridiculous so what is the number of people on the SNAP benefits?

They say 42 million recipients across 22 million households are going to lose benefits starting November 1st.

42 million people in a country of 335 or 40 million or whatever the number is now.

So I'm going to do a little quick public school math here if you'll indulge me, right?

Yeah. So if you took 42 and you divide by three, let's say 335, that's almost 13% of our population is on government assistance. Now look, I am not disputing that there are people who need help

in this country. I'm not disputing there are people who have disabilities

that prohibit them from working or that it causes, you know, family members to have to take care

of them so they can't work. I'm not disputing that. But do we really believe that that is 13%

of our population? Do we really believe that 13% of our population is so disabled that they can't, you know, take care of themselves or they don't have family members who can, you know, take care of themselves in some capacity?

Look, you know, we talk about our sweet friend Michael, who we love, who is cerebral palsy, who's our mega fan.

We love you, Michael. We know you're listening today. He listens every day. We love Michael. He made us these fabulous paintings. We posted the picture of one of the things Michael can still do and do very well is he can paint pictures with his hands. And he made us these incredible pictures. It sits right on my desk, right when I get into my office. Now,

it's great. People like him, absolutely. They have no ability to provide for themselves. His parents

have to help take care of him. And I understand that. But there's a, let's face it, we would be

totally naive and kidding ourselves if we said that there are not a lot of

people in this country who are capable of taking care of themselves, at least in some capacity,

and are simply able to not do that because of how we have exploded government benefits, especially

during COVID and afterwards.

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