Rumor Mail note: The big lie that was omitted in this article is the amount of taxes people pay out of their earned income. Also the amount of middle class jobs that have been lost by outsourcing manufacturing, insourcing foreign workers etc.

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McDonald's released an unintentionally hillarious instructional video about managing a budget. If you haven't already seen this, please watch how lowpayisnotok breaks it down.

Once you've recovered from the laughing fit, you might realize that there are a few other implications from this message.

The average wage for a McDonald's worker is $7.72 an hour.
Walmart, which pays its workers an average wage of $8.81 an hour, recently gathered a few headlines when it threatened to cancel construction on three stores in Washington D.C. after the city council wanted to force them to pay a living wage of $12.50 an hour.

However, the lie behind food stamps being a benefit for the undeserving poor is more than just a slander of the working poor. It's also a distraction away from who primarily benefits from food stamps.

"Here's where the profits come in," Nestle says. "A vast percentage of Food Stamps' money goes into the pockets of soda companies and snack food companies...and also the stores that sell these foods."

Wal-Mart "gets a large fraction of Food Stamp dollars," which contributes 25% to 40% of revenue at select stores, according to Nestle. "These companies, therefore, have a vested interest in making sure Food Stamps are allowed for any purchase at all."

Funding for Food Stamps comes from the Farm Bill, which is currently being debated in Congress. "You can bet the food companies like it just the way it is and they are lobbying" to prevent restrictions on how Food Stamp dollars are spent, Nestle says.