The Matt Walsh Show - I Did A Deep Dive Into Our Welfare System, And It's WORSE Than I Thought

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00:00:29.400 About a month ago, we briefly discussed the very bizarre and disturbing case of a 40-year-old black woman named Tamika Good. 0.97

00:00:36.660 Starting in July of 2025, Tamika Good decided that she liked the look of a multi-million dollar McMansion in Bethesda, Maryland.

00:00:45.540 The mansion was empty because the bank had just foreclosed on it and they were preparing to sell it to the new owner.

00:00:51.820 But Tamika Good didn't want to deal with any of that, so she decided to move in along with an accomplice.

00:00:56.960 She didn't pay a dime to anyone. She didn't sign a lease or a purchase agreement. 0.99

00:01:01.500 She just began living there and filming TikTok videos where she pretended that she was rich.

00:01:08.100 She also supposedly sold litigation counseling to people who were bankrupt, although it's fairly

00:01:12.600 clear that she didn't have many clients. And if she did, she probably wasn't providing the best

00:01:16.560 legal advice. According to Daily Mail, on her bankruptcy filings, Tamika Good claimed her 1.00

00:01:20.600 income came from just two sources, $538 in child support, and then $408 in food stamps.

00:01:29.120 So this went on for several months, basically the entire last half of 2025. And then in January,

00:01:34.340 it seemed like justice had finally prevailed. The woman was taken to court because a 19-year-old

00:01:39.440 living next door noticed what she was doing, and she lost. This is from Fox 45 Baltimore,

00:01:44.600 which has done incredible work exposing this case. Watch.

00:01:47.780 I never imagined that this would take this long.

00:01:50.940 Spotlight on Maryland reported in December about two alleged squatters who took over a $2.3 million house in Bethesda.

00:01:57.800 Just make this very clear. 0.54

00:01:59.180 Tamika Good, the squatter and self-described pro se litigation coach.

00:02:02.680 You can't be doing regular people.

00:02:04.980 Featured the estate in a TikTok video posted on her account just six days ago. 0.91

00:02:09.280 Good was charged last year with multiple counts of burglary, trespassing, and other crimes associated with her squatter takeover of a multi-million dollar Bethesda home.

00:02:18.660 She had a scheduled court appearance on Thursday morning.

00:02:21.360 In exclusive footage obtained by Spotlight on Maryland, Good can be seen in a black Porsche Cayenne leaving the property soon before 7 to make it to court.

00:02:29.580 During the trial, Good argued that it was unclear which bank owned the foreclosed house because there was no clear trespassing sign.

00:02:35.640 The assistant state's attorney for Montgomery County replied after hearing Good repeat herself multiple times, saying, I know who doesn't own the property, and that's Tamika Good, adding, this isn't some vacant, abandoned, way out of the woods house.

00:02:48.400 Hi, Ms. Tamika Good. Do you believe that squatting is a crime? Why are you in a two and a half million dollar property, Ms. Good?

00:02:57.940 Judge John C. Moffitt gave remarks before he made the ruling, telling Good she had some demented thoughts to justify squatting.

00:03:05.640 The prosecution replied, this is frankly nuts.

00:03:09.840 Good was found guilty on all counts of burglary and breaking and entering and immediately sentenced to 90 days in prison.

00:03:16.240 I think the District Court of Maryland did the right thing today.

00:03:18.480 Ian Chen, a 19-year-old living with his parents in a neighboring house to the home good occupied,

00:03:23.380 brought the case before a Maryland commissioner's office because he said he wanted to take back the neighborhood from criminals.

00:03:29.320 I felt it was my civic duty to do the right thing, to file these charges, and then to ultimately bring her to justice here today.

00:03:35.640 So after nine months in which this woman was living in a house that she didn't own, everything seemed to have been resolved finally.

00:03:42.020 But as we all know, even when they're sentenced to prison, criminals aren't actually punished anymore in this country.

00:03:46.500 And therefore, Good got out of prison in less than two weeks after paying $500 out of a $5,000 bond.

00:03:53.940 And she immediately moved back into the house.

00:03:55.880 We played some of the footage before, but it's worth revisiting because it includes one of the most extraordinary interviews with an incompetent lawyer that you'll ever see.

00:04:03.860 Again, this is from the same Fox affiliate in Baltimore.

00:04:06.120 Watch.

00:04:07.220 Are we back at it again?

00:04:09.600 Unfortunately, yes.

00:04:10.960 Less than two weeks of being incarcerated, 1.00

00:04:13.760 Tamika Good is back in the house. 0.63

00:04:15.380 11 days later, Good was released on appeal on February 2nd

00:04:19.140 after posting a $5,000 cash bond.

00:04:22.860 Activities in the house started again soon after her release.

00:04:26.420 For days, a woman wearing similar shoes and green pants

00:04:29.520 was seen moving in and out of the alleged Bethesda squatterhome.

00:04:32.360 We spoke with Alex Webster about his client.

00:04:35.220 Look, there's a question.

00:04:36.640 It's really the number one question on everybody's mind.

00:04:39.740 How would your client, Mr. Mika Good, get inside a $2.3 million property?

00:04:46.660 Cut. I don't know if I can answer that. Allegedly.

00:04:53.540 Can I cut?

00:04:55.160 We're rolling.

00:04:56.660 I mean, we're rolling, my friend. Yeah.

00:05:02.360 All right, can you re-ask the question?

00:05:14.040 Sure, absolutely.

00:05:14.720 So the number one question on everybody's mind is how your client, Ms. Domeka Good, got

00:05:19.880 into a $2.3 million property.

00:05:24.580 Well, Ms. Good did her research.

00:05:27.840 She found out that a certain property was under the control of a certain group

00:05:38.540 and that there was a title issue.

00:05:41.940 Due to the title issue, she was able to assume the property under squatter's rights. 0.98

00:05:48.140 So in Maryland, there isn't a particular squatter's right.

00:05:52.140 Am I missing something?

00:05:53.580 Well, there's not a particular squatter's right, but it's known as squatter's right.

00:05:56.500 When you first called the police living next to a squatter, what did they do?

00:06:01.480 Nothing, really. They just knocked on the door, and when there was no answer, they just got back in their cars and left.

00:06:07.720 We pressed Montgomery County Police on why Good and other squatters remain.

00:06:11.980 The spokesperson replied, saying the squatters have been in the house for more than 30 days, so they have gained residency status.

00:06:18.860 Why does this matter to you?

00:06:20.460 Because it's the right thing to do.

00:06:22.620 The most recent update appears to be that on February 10th, the teenager, teenage neighbor saw Tamika Good taking property out of the home and placing it in a U-Haul.

00:06:33.180 So she was arrested for burglary. But again, she still has access to the house and she's still considered a resident, apparently.

00:06:39.980 As for Tamika Good's accomplice, as of this week, he's out of jail, too.

00:06:43.840 Even though his rap sheet is much longer than Tamika's, he's a free man as well.

00:06:49.280 He's also free to move back into the house,

00:06:51.000 and his story's actually pretty interesting in its own right.

00:06:53.460 It turns out that Georgetown University set up a program

00:06:55.900 to help convicted criminals get jobs.

00:06:58.780 And Good's accomplice used that training to immediately commit more crimes.

00:07:03.520 Who could have possibly predicted that?

00:07:05.580 Watch.

00:07:06.580 Get out my face. 1.00

00:07:07.660 As the months-long battle continues over a squatter takeover

00:07:10.500 of a $2.3 million Bethesda, Maryland home by Tamika Good last year,

00:07:15.760 We're now learning more about her fellow squatting partner in the property, Corey Pollard,

00:07:20.580 who was in federal court on Wednesday in Baltimore for violating probation.

00:07:24.640 No, or not right now. You don't need to know. Those are the words that we all hear.

00:07:30.940 Pollard was part of the inaugural class at Georgetown University's Pivot Program in 2019,

00:07:36.600 a re-entry initiative connecting former offenders with jobs. Court records for Pollard show a

00:07:42.020 lengthy criminal history including robbery vehicle theft and drug-related offenses

00:07:47.380 with arrests in virginia pennsylvania maryland and delaware presentation delivering pitches

00:07:54.100 interaction networking all that is a part of entrepreneurship and i learned all that through

00:08:00.900 pivot just months after completing the pilot program prosecutors say pollard smashed a car

00:08:05.860 dealership window with a sledgehammer to steal nearly half a dozen luxury cars between november

00:08:11.860 2019 to December 2020. He was later convicted. Dowering sentencing, Pollard argued that he had

00:08:18.800 demonstrated rehabilitation. We have a mass incarceration crisis in this country where

00:08:22.860 we have 2.3 million people locked up behind bars. Maryland records show Pollard and Good

00:08:27.820 launched a business together in 2020. Pollard also secured work with DC-based architecture

00:08:33.040 firm Tordi Gallus and Partners with the help of Pivot. Even further, Pollard is listed as

00:08:38.360 a community development coordinator with WFL Collective, a group that claims it partners

00:08:43.720 with Civic Works and the Baltimore Housing Authority. Despite its claims, WFL Collective

00:08:49.160 is not listed as a charity in the IRS's online database. Meanwhile, while squatting inside the

00:08:54.900 $2.3 million home in December, Pollard was arrested on a warrant linked to yet another

00:09:03.280 Pennsylvania case where he again is accused of stealing a collection of luxury vehicles

00:09:07.860 in June 2024. Prosecutor also argued Pollard had a history of committing serial crimes of

00:09:13.340 dishonesty and was a puppeteer, including his involvement in organizing luxury car

00:09:18.020 theft sprees for years between trials. Despite those claims, Judge Julie E. Rubin ordered his

00:09:24.180 release following Wednesday's hearing. We pressed Gallus after the hearing about his support for

00:09:29.160 his pivot client and employee, as well as allegations he falsified a lease for Pollard.

00:09:34.660 So do you think it's appropriate for your client to sit in a squatter home, sir?

00:09:40.440 Do you think that's appropriate?

00:09:42.560 Throughout all of this, by the way, Tamika Good and her accomplice have retained access to her food stamps.

00:09:49.040 Even when you commit a serious crime, taxpayers are still required to pay your bills.

00:09:53.080 None of their welfare is impacted by the fact that they barged into a house and set up residence there, committed multiple crimes.

00:10:00.040 They're both free to walk into another empty house, and if they can stay there for 30 days or claim to, then it's basically theirs.

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00:11:20.640 This isn't the law in most of the world.

00:11:23.080 This is an American phenomenon

00:11:24.420 that became widespread

00:11:25.680 right in the last half century or so. It's a holdover from the medieval period when record

00:11:29.920 keeping wasn't especially good and there was constant fighting over the land, so it would

00:11:34.380 change hands a lot. But even back then, 30 days would have been a very tight time frame. In most

00:11:40.260 of Europe, they required years of squatting in order to claim residency. But in the U.S., for

00:11:46.060 the most part, all you need is 30 days. That's led to a rash of squatters all over the country.

00:11:51.820 Watch. Squatting has been a problem across the country. The National Rental Home Council pinpoints

00:11:57.980 the highest concentrations of complaints in states like Georgia, Florida, and Texas. One such case

00:12:04.200 was from Patty Peoples in Jacksonville, Florida, who found out the hard way that squatters had

00:12:09.620 broken in and taken over one of her investment properties. I called 911. And as I'm describing

00:12:15.280 to the officer that there may be somebody that had broken and entered into my house,

00:12:19.500 Out walks a young woman.

00:12:21.500 And she said, well, I rented this property yesterday. 1.00

00:12:24.500 It only got worse.

00:12:25.500 I own this house.

00:12:26.500 It doesn't matter.

00:12:28.500 Excuse me.

00:12:29.500 If you touch me again, I have every right to be in this house.

00:12:32.500 You don't have every right to be in the house at all.

00:12:34.500 You do not.

00:12:35.500 You do not.

00:12:36.500 I'm not touching you.

00:12:37.500 You are touching me. 1.00

00:12:38.500 And this lady is touching me. 1.00

00:12:40.500 We're blocking you from coming in the house because we're doing this way. 1.00

00:12:43.500 God .

00:12:44.500 Believe it or not, the police officer told me, I will arrest you if you do this again.

00:12:50.500 They have the right to privacy.

00:12:53.000 I cannot tell you the frustration I felt.

00:12:59.060 Adele Andeloro went through something similar when she says squatters took over a home she

00:13:03.980 inherited in New York City.

00:13:05.720 The confrontation caught on camera by our station WABC.

00:13:09.440 Why is it that I have to leave and he doesn't have to leave?

00:13:11.400 Because technically he can't be kicked out.

00:13:13.440 we need to go to court at that time in new york city squatters had tenant rights after 30 days

00:13:19.160 making this a landlord tenant dispute the problem with making it a landlord tenant dispute

00:13:25.160 should be obvious to anyone who's ever been a landlord or who knows a landlord once you're 0.99

00:13:29.600 considered a landlord you basically can't evict anyone this is how many foreigners afford housing 0.55

00:13:35.840 in places like new york they just move in and don't don't pay rent and then when the landlord

00:13:41.720 goes to housing court, the tenant gets a hardship extension. It gets so bad that landlords

00:13:46.820 eventually offer the tenants a large amount of money to move out. That's what many squatters

00:13:51.780 are hoping for. This is a case out of Chicago where the homeowner decided to move in with the

00:13:56.220 squatters, which is a bold strategy for when the police and the legal system won't do anything to

00:14:01.940 help you, but they still wouldn't move out. So he had to offer them cash to get them to leave. Watch.

00:14:08.540 Chicago man says he did the unthinkable when he discovered alleged squatters in his property.

00:14:13.640 He decided to move in with them.

00:14:16.480 Marco Velasquez is the owner of this Southside property, which is on the market to be sold.

00:14:21.020 He says his realtor came by with a potential buyer, but there was already people inside.

00:14:26.540 I couldn't believe it. It was like a nightmare.

00:14:29.940 Velasquez says a woman named Charmaine and her boyfriend, Codero, moved in, claiming they recently purchased the property.

00:14:36.700 He says the couple showed police this mortgage document, but Cook County confirms they don't

00:14:42.440 see this mortgage on record. Velasquez's realtor recorded this video as the couple explained to

00:14:48.280 police they had a right to be there. He says police told them under Illinois' current law

00:14:56.880 they couldn't remove anyone. I said I'm not moving out and I said at the one point they

00:15:01.980 got to leave. They got to get tired of Oz being in the property. I called a couple of friends,

00:15:07.060 stay overnight, and I knew they were not going to like that. So you're telling me that you and

00:15:13.220 your friends came in and moved in with them? Yes. Velasquez says he, his wife, and their friends

00:15:19.000 got a few air mattresses and spent the night with the alleged squatters. We stayed in the living

00:15:24.640 room. We were washing all the time the door. They stayed in one of the bedrooms. The next morning,

00:15:30.400 he says he realized they were not budging. They're like, oh, we want $8,000. Velasquez

00:15:36.440 says they negotiated. He had the couple sign a cash for key agreement and he paid them $4,300

00:15:43.060 to leave. This is a situation, as you can imagine, that often turns violent or at least becomes very

00:15:48.740 close to being violent. And even in those cases, the police still don't get involved. This is from

00:15:54.560 Georgia. Decatur family says squatters have taken over their childhood home just days before it was

00:15:59.960 supposed to be sold. Our Chase Howell spoke with a family who says the situation has been

00:16:04.620 heartbreaking. We're going to party. You know what time is. From inviting people on Facebook to pool

00:16:11.180 parties to posting videos on social media from inside this half a million dollar home, one family

00:16:18.320 says squatters have taken over. It is a nightmare. These videos and advertisements are so far

00:16:27.380 reaching that we received a call this morning from someone in Florida that

00:16:33.980 said hey senior dad's property on the internet Lisa Kevin Marcus and Marlene

00:16:39.240 grew up in the home they say it was just last week their dad passed away and

00:16:44.060 not even 48 hours later this squatters came in like thieves in the night and

00:16:48.860 took over their childhood home it pisses me off

00:16:54.040 tremendously. After learning about the squatters the siblings called the police and according to

00:17:00.260 the incident report the people inside the home supplied a lease. Then later that same day Kevin

00:17:06.100 went to check on the house and was met by a group of guys. They started making threats against my

00:17:11.120 life and one of them told his friend to go get something and he came back with a rifle in the

00:17:18.960 doorway. What all these squatters have in common is that in every case, they know the legal system

00:17:24.820 will take their side. Whatever punishment they receive, it won't be anything sufficient.

00:17:30.460 It's just a cost of doing business. And once they pay the toll, if there is one,

00:17:35.340 they know they can go right back to committing more crimes. This doesn't just apply to squatters.

00:17:39.780 Consider the case of Abdul Abubakar Ali in Minnesota. He pleaded guilty to participating

00:17:46.220 in one of the largest Somali scams that's been uncovered,

00:17:49.320 which is the Feeding Our Future fraud. 0.91

00:17:51.500 In total, the fraudsters stole more than $250 million

00:17:54.160 by falsely claiming that they had served meals to children

00:17:57.660 and then requesting federal reimbursement.

00:18:00.460 This is from our local news station,

00:18:01.620 Ali used a shell company known as Youth Inventors Lab 0.54

00:18:05.080 to defraud the federal pandemic meals program

00:18:07.800 under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future.

00:18:10.360 Court documents show that Ali and his co-conspirators

00:18:12.560 submitted fake invoices and claimed to have served

00:18:15.200 more than 1 million meals despite serving none, helping him to personally pocket more than $100,000.

00:18:23.140 Those are obviously very serious crimes. As part of a fraud that costs Minnesota taxpayers a quarter

00:18:29.200 of a billion dollars, he lied about feeding hungry children when in fact he was doing absolutely

00:18:33.360 nothing. He took advantage of an extremely dumb program that could only function in a high-trust 0.96

00:18:38.320 society, which is not the kind of society we have anymore. His non-profit, which is fake, 0.96

00:18:43.600 Youth Inventor's Lab, took in millions of dollars. And after all that, guess what Ali's 0.90

00:18:48.980 sentence was? It was just handed down the other day. And here it is. Watch.

00:18:54.900 We have another defendant in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme

00:18:59.540 that received his sentence today. He is one of only a few defendants who have actually

00:19:04.680 learned the punishment for their crime as dozens of others await sentencing. Fox 9's Courtney

00:19:10.160 Godfrey is at the federal courthouse tonight with details on this case. So, Courtney, what's the

00:19:14.940 latest there? Well, good evening, guys. This morning, a judge handed down a sentence for 40-year-old

00:19:22.800 Abdul Abubakar Ali, a one-year and one-day sentence for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

00:19:30.760 Ali, along with two others, operated a federal child nutrition program site called Youth Inventors

00:19:36.820 lab the defendants claimed to have served approximately 1.5 million meals to underserved

00:19:42.020 children over the course of seven months but federal prosecutors claim in reality they served

00:19:47.060 only a small fraction of that when we visited the site in st paul back in 2022 right after charges

00:19:54.100 were filed we found an empty storefront and neighbors who claimed they never saw a child

00:20:00.180 walk through those doors did you ever see a child come in and out of those doors never

00:20:05.220 Never. Every single person who was ever coming in and out of that building, they were an adult.

00:20:13.760 Today, the judge gave Ali a shorter sentence than the pre-sentencing guidelines suggest,

00:20:18.520 citing that he has already paid $90,000 of his $122,000 in restitution and that he was one of

00:20:26.280 the first defendants to plead guilty in this case. So the scam nets $250 million in total.

00:20:33.000 a lot of that money is laundered and untraceable to Ali's associates, gone for good. But the feds

00:20:39.940 can only prove this guy personally took $100,000 into his bank account. So to punish him, they're

00:20:45.620 going to demand that he pays back that $100,000. And then they're going to sentence him to one

00:20:52.200 year in prison with the option to send him to a halfway house in a matter of weeks. That's it.

00:20:59.640 So you see how this works?

00:21:00.900 If you join a conspiracy to defraud the government for $250 million, and that conspiracy indeed steals more than a quarter of a billion dollars, you basically won't suffer any consequences whatsoever.

00:21:14.060 I mean, the worst case scenario, you'll have to pay back the money, and not even all of it, or even close to all of it, and serve a few months in jail.

00:21:21.700 Meanwhile, your buddies with the $250 million can make you a very, very rich man once you get out of prison.

00:21:29.920 Your nonprofit connections can buy you a mansion and a sports car, no problem.

00:21:35.480 And no one in the government will do anything about it.

00:21:38.740 That's a trade a lot of people are willing to make.

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00:22:24.820 Would you be willing, would you take $250 million for a year in prison?

00:22:31.120 I think a lot of people would take that deal. And that's basically the deal that the court system is offering.

00:22:37.680 Now, we're in this position because for the better part of a century, both political parties have constantly expanded welfare programs and invented new ones.

00:22:45.540 to the point that it's impossible to police them for fraud, even if we want to, which very few

00:22:51.900 people do. The Feeding Our Future scam was only identified in the first place because the fraudsters

00:22:57.120 were extremely obvious about it. At one point, they said they were serving 5,000 meals a day

00:23:04.320 in one tiny location, which is a lot more than a typical McDonald's serves in midtown Manhattan.

00:23:11.240 And if they hadn't been so obvious, if they had been a little bit more clever and subtle,

00:23:16.160 nobody would have detected it.

00:23:18.140 They'd still be doing it right now.

00:23:20.500 The government doesn't have the resources to count every child who supposedly eats a

00:23:24.440 meal in Minneapolis at one of these locations.

00:23:28.060 But if you go back and watch Republicans talk about welfare in the middle of the 20th century,

00:23:32.920 this kind of fraud never occurred to them.

00:23:35.620 Here's a speech from Richard Nixon, for example, where he announced a major welfare reform.

00:23:39.680 Nixon oversaw the expansion of food stamps from around 2 million people to more than 15 million.

00:23:46.000 And here's what he said at the time.

00:23:48.060 It is morally wrong for a family that is working to try to make ends meet,

00:23:54.600 to receive less than a family across the street on welfare.

00:24:01.340 This has been bitterly resented by the man who works, and rightly so.

00:24:05.420 The rewards are just the opposite of what they should be.

00:24:08.160 system. Its effect is to draw people off payrolls and onto welfare rolls. And that is why tonight

00:24:15.680 I therefore propose that we abolish the present welfare system and that we adopt in its place

00:24:23.020 a new family assistance system. Initially, this new system will cost more than welfare.

00:24:31.620 But unlike welfare, it is designed to correct the condition it deals with and thus to lessen

00:24:38.140 the long-range burden and cost. Under this plan, the so-called adult categories of aid,

00:24:44.940 aid to the aged, the blind, the disabled, would be continued, and a national minimum standard for

00:24:50.940 benefits would be set, with the federal government contributing to its cost and also sharing the

00:24:56.780 cost of additional state payments above that amount. And for the first time, benefits would

00:25:03.020 be scaled in such a way that it would always pay to work.

00:25:09.900 With such incentives, most recipients who can work will want to work.

00:25:14.080 This is part of the American character.

00:25:17.200 But what are the others?

00:25:18.980 Those who can work but choose not to?

00:25:22.180 Well the answer is very simple.

00:25:24.380 Under this proposal, everyone who accepts benefits must also accept work or training

00:25:32.580 provided suitable jobs are available either locally or at some distance if transportation is provided.

00:25:38.880 The only exceptions would be those unable to work and mothers of preschool children.

00:25:45.560 In the short term, we're told it will cost more money, but in the long term, we'll see extra savings, extreme savings, Nixon told us. 0.80

00:25:54.480 The welfare rolls will decrease because, after all, who would lie about being disabled?

00:25:59.700 Who would lie about needing government assistance to eat?

00:26:04.340 Well, a half century later, there are something like 40 million people on food stamps in this country.

00:26:09.420 That includes more than 25 million adults.

00:26:12.680 And we know for a fact, it's not even debatable, that the vast majority of these people are committing fraud.

00:26:18.600 As the Wall Street Journal reported, quote,

00:26:21.060 three quarters of adult food stamp beneficiaries are overweight or obese.

00:26:25.120 Only 3% are underweight.

00:26:26.740 yes three quarters of the 25 million adults who get food stamps are fat which by definition means

00:26:34.900 they don't need food stamps but they're getting them anyway because we don't require a weigh-in

00:26:39.880 to qualify it's the honor system as long as they say they're looking for work they get to steal

00:26:45.460 your money and on top of that according to the center for economic and policy research quote

00:26:49.480 adults with disabilities make up about 25 percent of snap recipients nearly twice their share in the

00:26:55.260 overall population. Well, how do we know these people aren't faking a diagnosis to get out of 1.00

00:27:00.600 the work requirement as limited as it is? That's a good question since we already know that millions

00:27:07.260 of Americans are defrauding the system already. It's not exactly a stretch to suggest that they're

00:27:11.820 also lying about a disability to get out of the work requirement. In fact, we know that's happening.

00:27:17.080 We know there are a ton of fake disabled people walking around out there. Think about how many 1.00

00:27:23.460 people claim that they have a disability just so they can bring their dog on a plane.

00:27:29.060 Think about how many people are willing to, able-bodied people, normal people seemingly,

00:27:34.000 are willing to lie about that just for the advantage of bringing a dog on a plane.

00:27:40.380 Did Nixon consider any of this when he drastically expanded food stamps? Probably not.

00:27:45.660 And by the way, when Nixon said it would be impossible in his system for people to get

00:27:49.020 more money by not working. He was wrong about that too. One of my producers worked on a property

00:27:54.520 that was converted into section eight housing in Kansas city, Missouri. And as part of this

00:27:59.080 process, they ran the numbers on a single mother of a three-year-old and a five-year-old child.

00:28:04.200 And we'll put that up on the screen. In scenario A, the mother is making minimum wage, $13.75 an 0.99

00:28:11.200 hour. In scenario B, the mother is making $110,000 a year at her job. And in this comparison,

00:28:16.660 after welfare benefits are paid out, including SNAP, child care assistance, section eight

00:28:21.800 assistance, Medicaid, child tax credit, the woman with the minimum wage job ends up taking home

00:28:28.360 $99,368 a year. But the woman with the actual job paying $110,000 a year nets only $99,344.

00:28:40.580 that's less than the woman with a minimum wage job. The woman with the high-paying job doesn't 1.00

00:28:46.980 qualify for a premium tax credit or earned income credit or SNAP or Medicaid or Section 8, 0.99

00:28:53.200 and she has to pay a lot more income tax. So this is the system that Democrats created with a lot

00:28:59.700 of help from Republicans. They've created a gigantic incentive for poor people to steal 1.00

00:29:04.980 taxpayer money, and even for people who are not poor to steal taxpayer money. According to the

00:29:10.160 Congressional Budget Office, quote, for someone earning just below the poverty line, the effective

00:29:14.940 marginal tax rate can jump from 14% to 34% or higher when they cross certain income thresholds.

00:29:22.520 So it's best to stay below the income threshold, and at the end of the day, you have more money

00:29:27.940 than the honest worker earning $110,000 a year. Keep this in mind the next time you hear about

00:29:33.800 the expansion of any welfare program in any context. This is where it leads in every single

00:29:39.620 case. The only solution, what Nixon should have done, is to abolish all of it. The only people

00:29:46.860 who should receive government assistance to buy food are people who are about to starve to death

00:29:50.920 as demonstrated by a regular weigh-in. And that will end up being zero people.

00:29:59.460 Meanwhile, the only people who should be allowed to live inside a home are the people who own the

00:30:03.940 property. And anybody else, or whoever they invite in, anybody else should be forcibly removed.

00:30:10.920 Squatter's rights should be abolished immediately. We invented them around the same time we came up 1.00

00:30:15.980 with every other bad idea, and we can get rid of them just as quickly. Now, will any of that

00:30:22.100 happen? Probably not. And for that reason, especially if you own any property, you need

00:30:28.800 to be ready to defend it, because your government won't.

00:30:40.160 I do believe that if people have committed treason against the United States of America,

00:30:45.920 their statues should not be in the Capitol.

00:30:49.840 History is written by the victors, and since the 1960s, we've been told mostly by people

00:30:53.820 whose ancestors didn't even live here during the war that the South committed treason.

00:30:58.800 But if the Confederates were traitors,

00:31:02.800 then why was Jefferson Davis never put on trial for treason?

00:31:07.800 What were Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson afraid of?

00:31:11.800 Do they know something they're not allowed to say today?

00:31:15.800 It's time for the truth.

00:31:16.800 So here it is.

00:31:17.800 Robert E. Lee was a military genius and a man of immense honor.

00:31:20.800 He was beloved by Americans from the North and South

00:31:23.800 for a century after the war.

00:31:25.800 This is the real history of the Civil War.

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 14, 2026

I Did A Deep Dive Into Our Welfare System, And It's WORSE Than I Thought

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