Ron Johnson: “When you've gone from about 17 million people on food stamps…”

“But Mike, the problem is, how do you design that strong social safety net without incentivizing people to take advantage of it that really shouldn't be taking advantage of it? I mean, when you've got. When you've gone from about 17 million people on food stamps in the year 2000 to 47 million, you know, 12 years later, I think you have a problem. particularly when you're running deficits, you know, over the last four years, $5.1 trillion. Do you know what we're doing to our children?” (03:44–03:52)

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