when the economy gets trashed, because of the Great Recession, because Wall Street looted the economy, because of unbelievable tax favoritism in the Tax Code, and as a result of those very painful countrywide phenomena that we saw, families have to go on to food stamps in order to continue to eat and feed their children, to take a look at that and say that the problem is the food stamps to me is very much at odds with reality.
Whitehouse criticizes blaming food stamps for economic issues caused by the Great Recession.
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