Matt Walsh discusses SNAP: “There are a lot of people who, rather than get a job, would prefer to rob grocery stores and the people shopping inside them”
Walsh: “If you look at what food stamp recipients are saying in their own words ... you come away with the impression that many of these people are simply entitled, lazy, barely literate, and, like, some of them are just frankly bad people”
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From the October 28, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): Has anyone ever starved to death in the modern history of this country because they haven't had access to food? I mean, has that actually happened in this country? Has a single sane adult, OK — now, we're not talking about kids who are victims of horrific abuse and those kinds of awful cases, in which case, like, food stamps are not solving that. Has any sane adult, through no fault of his own, shriveled and died because he couldn't afford to buy anything to eat? Has there been a single example of someone in modern America, in modern America, someone who has no family, no friends, no other forms of state or federal welfare he can tap into, no food banks, no churches he can visit, no job, no soup kitchens nearby, no charity food drives in his area, nothing at all?
So the point is that there's a — there are a bunch of lines of defense. Like, when we deal with the question of, well, who should be feeding you? Right? There's — there are a lot of answers that come up. And the first person, ideally, who feeds you should be you. You should be feeding yourself if you're an adult. Who should feed your children? It should be you. Like, that's the first. That's where we should go. That should be number one, you. And if you really can't, I mean, there are things that happen where someone really, really can't. So through no fault of their own, they can — they're not able to feed themselves. That can happen. I'm not denying that. But then there are so many other — in modern America, there are so many other lines of defense — even if you take EBT out of it, there are so many other lines of defense that should mean that you're not going starve. You should have your family. You should have friends. Even if you don't have them, you have a local community, you have soup kitchens, you have charities, you have churches, you have all of these things. You have food drives, all of these things. You have other forms of welfare programs that also exist.
So for how many people — I guess this is the question, how many people are in a situation where all of those lines of defense have failed, every single one. And the only possible thing left that can feed them is EBT? You know? Now, if something like that — if there were someone in that situation, if something like that were ever happening in United States, then I'd be the first in line to say, yes. Get that person a taxpayer funded hot dog. I don't want to see anyone starve. Nobody does. But I don't think that's that's actually happening in modern America, and nobody has demonstrated otherwise. Like, no one has presented us with a person and said, OK. Here's someone who — there's an actual human who's alive today in America, and for this person, legitimately, if they don't have food stamps, they will starve. It's the only thing. It's the only way they could get their hands on food. I — no one has shown that example.
And in fact, if you look at what food stamp recipients are saying in their own words, you come away with the distinct impression that, like, almost none of these people actually need the food stamps. Instead, you come away with the impression that many of these people are simply entitled, lazy, barely literate, and, like, some of them are just frankly bad people. And, of course, that doesn't describe every adult on food stamps. No one is saying that. But it does seem to describe a large portion of them. And that is a moral outrage that we as tax paying Americans who are funding this, we have every right to be upset about that. When people are stealing our money who don't even need it and just wasting it in this profligate way, don't let anyone morally blackmail you into thinking that you're not allowed to be upset about that. Of course you could be upset about that. And, of course, you could demand answers. You're taking my money. I want to know who exactly needs it, and for what, and how are you spending it? That is a legitimate question. Of course, it is. And what you end up with is there are a lot of people who, rather than get a job, would prefer to rob grocery stores and the people shopping inside them.