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Dependency? 50 million or more on food stamps. this is their business plan. this is how they stay in power. >> you think people are better off on food stamps or are they better off with a job? >> and what they will not deal with, goldie, that many of the people on food stamps are working every day. >> absolutely. >> the working poor is the ones that are the problems. they are the ones with the problem. >> the worst kept secret is that there are members of our military, men and women who seven this nation every day who don't earn enough not to qualify for food stamps. in fact, there is a stigma...

I think the millennial generation is finding the jobs out there, they don't have the skills for them. and they're not learning in college the skills that they need to get the jobs that are out there. >> we just finished airing a documentary on the food stamp dependence culture. and we interviewed a guy in la jolla, california. beautiful la jolla. well, i refer to him as surfer dude. he surfs all day. and then he use his food stamp card -- it's called a snap card now. >> there can't be any stigma. >> we call it a snap card. it's a debit card essentially. he goes in and buys lobster and sushi at...

The food stamp program and reality of abuse. bret baier returns now with a look whether the deposit is being honest with the people who are not satisfied with just a handout. >> reporter: column bu-- column bus, ohio, understate food investigators get ready for an undercover sting on this market snoop we're undercover investigators and will go in to purchase a card with the snap card. >> reporter: snap is the official name for food stamps. yes, it's against the law to buy alcohol with a snap card. ohio authorities tell us they've been investigating this store for months. >> how you doing, hone...

Dude that lives on food stamps you finance. >> my ebt snap card, got the coast of california on it. >> how do you get a snap card. >> go to human resource office, have your birth certificate, social security card, got a paycheck coming in, so i qualify. that's that. >> and how often do you have to do it. >> they have it now you do it once a year. >> that's so cool. what does he do with all the free money? >> i got my rainbow, ahi, salmon, eel, yellow tail, and lobster on special. got lobster. and coconut water. coconut water, all paid for by

Up. of course, she doesn't know contrary to the radio suggestion that food stamps will help her lose weight, usda research shows a correlation between snap card use and obesity in nonelderly adult women like diana. >> you think unconditional efforts by the best food stamp president in american history to maximize dependency is terrible for the future of this country. >> reporter: when the national food stamp binge became an issue in the 2012 presidential campaign, the radio series became a news story and embarrassed usda pulled the series from circulation. undersecretary of agriculture admitte...