Sean Hannity and his like-minded guest Charles Payne want to cut our social safety nets – and they want you to think they’re doing it out of the goodness of their Christian hearts. But, near the end of a discussion on the subject tonight, Payne revealed what he really thinks of the poor. And Hannity did not disagree.

You may recall that Payne recently fear mongered the election of liberal Bill de Blasio as New York City mayor as some kind of disease that may spread across the country, possibly dooming capitalism.

Tonight, as liberal guest Tamara Holder cited Jesus and the Bible as one good reason we should keep helping the poor, Payne said:

I don’t know why you think helping someone, people who were born and dying on food stamps. I don’t know why you think that’s admirable. And yes… a lot of people are lazy and a lot of people are becoming lazier and we’re not doing people a favor, by the way. 

“Show me one study,” Holder demanded.

Payne replied, “My life and my observation, that’s the study.”

Which is about as authoritative as the Fox News talking heads declaring there’s no such thing as global warming because it’s so cold outside.

But rather than offer any hard facts of his own – or even challenge Payne for smearing poor people, Hannity more or less agreed. He said, “We’ve doubled the number of people on food stamps. And that’s not good for them and it’s not good for the country.”

Maybe one reason neither Hannity nor Payne had any statistics is because they don’t bear out their blame-the-poor argument. From Salon.com:

According to Feeding America, “76% of SNAP households included a child, an elderly person, or a disabled person. These vulnerable households receive 83% of all SNAP benefits.” According to the USDA, “Over 30 percent of SNAP households had earnings in 2011, and 41 percent of all SNAP participants lived in a household with earnings.”

But rather than looking for ways to improve working people’s standard of living, Hannity and Payne want to lower it. And call that good for them.