The argument that the country's economic struggles are caused by the poor using social safety net programs is a lazy and inaccurate narrative.
“And it's this lazy [ __ ] narrative that our finances are screwed because of how comfortable we have made it for the poor.”
The Daily Show · Jul 2025 · 1 episode · 3.5M views on this topicThe speaker opposes current efforts to cut Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare and disputes the claims of fraud used to justify these cuts.
“So when you see that those claims of really high rates, do make sure that they are really talking about fraud because I have yet to see them actually referring to fraud. They're referring to error rates which means that again somebody coded something wrong and that happens at a at a pretty decent ra”
Heather Cox Richardson · Jun 2026 · 2 episodes · 175K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.