WBAL’s Ron Smith and I had a rowdy time today paying our respects to the food stamp program. Ron has been doing talk radio for almost 30 years, so he appreciates policy absurdities far better than most hosts. You can hear the @10 minute interview by clicking (or downloading) this link – ron-smith-show-7-11-2011-jim-bovard-food-stamps
Archive | July, 2011
The 2011 Version of Aging Gracefully
excellent cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker
My Bastardry Re-Confirmed: “Bovard and His Ilk” [Food Stamps]
The Wall Street Journal published some letters on last week’s food stamp piece. According to Joel Berg of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger: Food-stamp fraud has never cost the American taxpayers anything close to what defense-contractor or corporate-welfare fraud costs, and the number of people illegally using food-stamp benefits has always been dwarfed […]
Jim
Thanks a lot!
timmy taes
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David Smithson
Right you are. Retired now, I worked for many yea
Ron Redrift
Sorry to hear of your tiff with Mr. Wilson; hope i