But somehow the person buying groceries with assistance becomes the symbol of everything wrong with America? Really? That’s the target? Not billion dollar mistakes? Not corporate fraud? Not tax loopholes designed by armies of accountants?

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The real scam is pretending that poor people are the biggest threat to America’s wallet. We spend trillions of dollars as a nation. We lose money to waste, bad contracts, corporate loopholes, and government mismanagement all the time.

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But don’t take a few bad actors and use them as a political hammer to beat millions of people who are simply trying to survive. Because the vast majority of people receiving SNAP are not living some luxurious life of free groceries and government handouts.

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A paperwork mistake is not a criminal conspiracy. A computer error is not a guy in a dark alley selling stolen benefits. A person misunderstanding a complicated government form is not the same as someone intentionally committing fraud. But that doesn’t make a good headline, does it?

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And if your biggest plan for fixing America is chasing the person buying bread instead of chasing the people stealing billions, congratulations you didn’t fix the problem. You just found someone smaller to blame.

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