Fact-checking the debate: Sorry, Republicans, but welfare spending is not tanking our economy
"A full two-thirds of SNAP recipients can’t work, because they are children, elderly or disabled. Far from being some kind of program redirecting money from hard-working people to the indolent poor, it’s a program that allows hard-working people to have a safety net in case they lose a job or someone in the house becomes disabled. Would cutting all these people loose save us a fortune, though? Nope!"
