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
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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 […]
Wall Street Journal: Food Stamps for Millionaires
Wall Street Journal June 23, 2011 The Food-Stamp Crime Wave By JAMES BOVARD Millionaires are now legally entitled to collect food stamps as long as they have little or no monthly income. Thirty-five states have abolished asset tests for most food-stamp recipients. These and similar “paperwork reduction” reforms advocated by the United States Department of […]
“Bitter, Cantankerous, and Too Lazy to Shave”
My Wall Street Journal tribute to the highway department is spurring some incisive comments. I will revise my Blurb List later tonight. William Gomes, commented posted at WSJ: The real failure of Mr Bovard’s summer job was, it seems, making him into the bitter and cantankerous individual he is today…. I cannot imagine his colleagues […]
Wall Street Journal: My Summer Road to Perdition
Here’s a pleasant jaunt down memory lane…. part of a project I’ve been whittlin’ on for awhile. WALL STREET JOURNAL .My Summer Road to Perdition What did I learn as a young man laboring for the Virginia Highway Department? How to work slowly to slipshod standards. By JAMES BOVARD Mayors, governors and congressmen are busily […]
MP3 of Today’s Brian Wilson Show Turkey Shoot
WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a rattlin’ good chat this afternoon about foreign aid, Afghanistan, and whether Sheryl Crow (the Panty Peak star of the Country Music award show) should be labeled “middle aged.” I didn’t say she wasn’t cute. Brian’s wit and wrath against the government makes for a fun show. You can […]
Barron’s: The Anti-Corruption Charade (full text)
Barron’s, June 6, 2011 The Anti-Corruption Charade by James Bovard In much of the world, governing is a synonym for looting. Unfortunately, American and European foreign aid has a long history of accelerating the looting. Foreign aid created a generation of kleptocracies—governments of thieves—in Africa in the 1970s and 1980s. Mercedes-Benz automobiles became so popular […]
