Pincer movement
Republicans are trying to reduce food aid to the poor
BEFORE Fox News discovered Jason Greenslate, he was just another Californian beach slacker. But then he explained to conservative America that he had no interest in a regular job, yet received $200 a month in food assistance. Worse, he occasionally spent some of it on fresh seafood. Thus a new welfare bogeyman was born: Lobster Boy.
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