Michael Knowles

There's that great scene in Cinderella Man where Russell Crowe is James Braddock.

He's a down-on-his-luck boxer.

And he ends up on welfare and he goes and becomes champion and he goes back to the welfare office with a roll of bills and he puts it back through the slot and he gives it back.

There is not a single human in America who would do that with any form of taxpayer benefit today.

says something about our sort of collective morality.

And I think it's also one of the reasons, one of the things that's sort of fascinating is that this story that Luke uncovered here has done outsized political work.

I mean, the reality is that it's, you know, you've got all these politicians, vice president on down, who are taking notice of this and saying they want to do something about it.

But I will say that in terms of sort of spectacular traffic, you know, gigantic public attention,

It hasn't done the same sort of numbers.

And I think the reason for that is not because of the quality of the story.

The story is incredible.

I think the reason for that is because people do not think of it anymore because of the size and scope of the government as a massive sin to defraud the government.

I hate all of it.

So, I mean, it's called having a family and your family should take care of you.

Like, period.

They don't understand that when you're defrauding the government, you're defrauding your fellow taxpayers.

And I should not have to be paid by the federal government to take care of my family.

That when you do this sort of stuff,

This is my general proposition in life.

It is one thing if you are in dire need, in dire poverty, and we're all trying to help make sure that your kids get fed or something.