As for the big picture, there is no way to say whether this person is a parasite. The market is distorted from top to bottom — many interventions are probably depressing his wages and inflating his cost of living (e.g. licensing requirements). The people at the bottom, living on food stamps, are not the problem. They did not create the state and they do not run the state. Their benefits are an afterthought… just an attempt to mitigate the disastrous consequences of systematic theft by the ruling class.

If this man is working, it’s most likely that he is the host, not the parasite…regardless of what his paycheck says his labor is worth. The real parasites are the CEOs of the banks and state-supported corporations, each of whom siphons off a million times more than the value of this man’s food stamps.

We need to focus more on the system as a whole as opposed to one person availing himself of the program.

As a libertarian who hates the welfare/nanny state, I encourage everyone to suck as much milk as possible from our national government teats. That will reduce the time before the day of reckoning when the government cannot borrow any more and must drastically cut spending. (It will never reduce spending on its own, as the recent “fiscal cliff” legislation showed.)