Vice President Biden Calls Gingrich Food Stamp Charge 'Ridiculous'

ollowing the president's speech last night, in which he called for greater economic fairness on taxes between the wealthy and middle class, Gingrich released a statement saying, "He will always prefer a food stamp economy to a paycheck economy and call it fair."

"It's hard to respond to Newt with those kind of ridiculous statements," Vice President Biden told me on "GMA." "Do they actually think that President Barack Obama wants to put everybody on food stamps? I don't know what they mean by it quite frankly… There must be some base they're trying to appeal to. I just don't know."

"We have a different priority set than Newt Gingrich and apparently… and our Republican colleagues have," Biden added.

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