Jon welcome to the daily show. [cheers and applause] my name is jon stewart. My guest tonight jim demint a former senator from South Carolina who left the senate to join a think thank because think tank because even just thinking around thinking in a tank [laughter] is more satisfied than being a United States senator. Thats how bad its gotten in the senate. Not i will say this though, not that the senate is doing nothing. They did recently, i believe, pass the farm bill. The new farm bill president obama signed into law yesterday cuts 8. 6 billion from food stamps during the next decades. Jon good. I think its wasteel. Who collects food stamps. The elvis fat and skinny. You have your develop streeta zinni liberty bell. There no matter how valuable they may be they are just going to be bad oh, really food stamps are a form of assistance that allows those who are hungry to be less so. Why would you cut that . Lobbying from big stam stomach pang. Using food stamps to buy ipads or cigaret
Is more satisfied than being a United States senator. Thats how bad its gotten in the senate. Not i will say this though, not that the senate is doing nothing. They did recently, i believe, pass the farm bill. The new farm bill president obama signed into law yesterday cuts 8. 6 billion from food stamps during the next decades. Jon good. I think its wasteel. Who collects food stamps. The elvis fat and skinny. You have your develop streeta zinni liberty bell. There no matter how valuable they may be they are just going to be bad oh, really food stamps are a form of assistance that allows those who are hungry to be less so. Why would you cut that . Lobbying from big stam stomach pang. Using food stamps to buy ipads or cigarettes. You hear stories about people on food stamps going to vegas drawing money at casinos. Jon yes, you do hear all these stories. Whether or not they are true or indicative of widespread abuse is not really the point here because you hear them. As a reporter on a ne
Is more satisfied than being a United States senator. Thats how bad its gotten in the senate. Not i will say this though, not that the senate is doing nothing. They did recently, i believe, pass the farm bill. The new farm bill president obama signed into law yesterday cuts 8. 6 billion from food stamps during the next decades. Jon good. I think its wasteel. Who collects food stamps. The elvis fat and skinny. You have your develop streeta zinni liberty bell. There no matter how valuable they may be they are just going to be bad oh, really food stamps are a form of assistance that allows those who are hungry to be less so. Why would you cut that . Lobbying from big stam stomach pang. Using food stamps to buy ipads or cigarettes. You hear stories about people on food stamps going to vegas drawing money at casinos. Jon yes, you do hear all these stories. Whether or not they are true or indicative of widespread abuse is not really the point here because you hear them. As a reporter on a ne
Stamps are a form of assistance that allows those who are hungry to be less so. Why would you cut that . Lobbying from big stam stomach pang. Using food stamps to buy ipads or cigarettes. You hear stories about people on food stamps going to vegas drawing money at casinos. Jon yes, you do hear all these stories. Whether or not they are true or indicative of widespread abuse is not really the point here because you hear them. As a reporter on a news network its your job to pass them along through your mouth hole. As your slogan says fox news. We read the chain mails your grandma gets. So other than gambling. What else have you heard people are doing wrong with their food stamps . A lady trying to buy dog food with food stamps. If you are getting food stamps the last thing you should be buying is soda. Theres a thing there to get the junk food. People on welfare are going to disney land swiping the ebt card getting the big chicken legs. Jon without addressing the larger point of disney l
Think tank because even just thinking around thinking in a tank [laughter] is more satisfied than being a United States senator. Thats how bad its gotten in the senate. Not i will say this though, not that the senate is doing nothing. They did recently, i believe, pass the farm bill. The new farm bill president obama signed into law yesterday cuts 8. 6 billion from food stamps during the next decades. Jon good. I think its wasteel. Who collects food stamps. The elvis fat and skinny. You have your develop streeta zinni liberty bell. There no matter how valuable they may be they are just going to be bad oh, really food stamps are a form of assistance that allows those who are hungry to be less so. Why would you cut that . Lobbying from big stam stomach pang. Using food stamps to buy ipads or cigarettes. You hear stories about people on food stamps going to vegas drawing money at casinos. Jon yes, you do hear all these stories. Whether or not they are true or indicative of widespread abus