This is an otherwise mundane sentence but it reveals much about liberals, the DC bubble and Dana Milbank himself.
His MO is to convert his opinion to fact and then castigate a state legislator for confronting an obvious problem.
I have news for Mr Milbank, who has probably never set foot in a Kroger in Appalachia or a Piggly Wiggly in Alabama: the fraud, abuse and outright sloth are on CONSTANT display with the fraudsters more and more arrogant, even belligerent, about their sense of entitlement.
The stores DO lay out the expensive items at the start of each month and those items - along with the usual assortment of junk food and sugar water - ARE purchased with public funds no matter how high-tech the method of payment.
I know several pharmacists and they must double their staff in the first week of each month to deal with the flood of dole recipients obtaining medicines. Sadly for all of us, many of the prescriptions are for potent painkillers for non-existent maladies that will be abused and/or sold on the black market.
What is more 'humiliating' for the poor than to become de facto slaves to a government that demands their vote in exchange for a lifetime of rations?
Idiots like you have no acquaintance with poor people - you see one in the store and you rush to judgment.
Try juggling bills on a fixed income and see how far it gets you.
And in your certitude, you’re so sure people on Medicaid never buy legitimate prescriptions.
That reveals as much about you as it does about liberals at whom you take umbrage.