mattress price wars are on now at sleep train. your ticket to a better night s sleep and welcome back, some quick headlines for you. welfare, now the number one occupation in america. new data from the census bureau shows 108 million people receive government assistance. that s compared to just 101 million people with full time jobs.
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leaving, if obamacareed, i would like to get pack to the lame duck thing i have never seen a re-elected president less interested in the stuff we are talking about. he is not pushing this, he disappeared in the first six months of the second term. gregg: the farm bill dealing withed for stamps, americans realize this is out of the control 101 million people get some form of food stamp more than americans employ. it is a third of the country. here is the issue. it is undeniable there can and should be some cost comparison or cost effectiveness studyies to pari back but what is causing republicans a problem, because the farm bill was done without any attention paid to food stamps, we are now in a position where it is no food stamps
economy into a bureaucracy that redistributes wealth. here are the numbers. 101 million americans currently receive some kind of food aid from the federal government. 101 million. there are only 97 million americans who work full time. gretchen: wow. that s an extraordinary situation. you ve got nearly 47 million on food stamps. that s one in six of the population. you ve got 32 million getting school lunches, free or virtually no cost. 10 million get school breakfast free or virtually no cost. women, infants and children, wic program, 8 million there. the milk and summer food program goes to 2 million people. farmers market coupons are given away to nearly 2 million women and children. steve: the bad news is the fact that because now more people are not working than are working and are on assistance is the people who are work, their taxes are going to go up. yes. that s precisely right. it s income redistribution. and you can not reverse it.
32 million school lunches. 10 million lunches in school. 8 million the women and infants. 2 million milk and summer food program. 2 million get farmer s markets coupons for women and children. the important number is 101 million recipients of food assistance from the federal government. 97 million people in america work full time. martha: so you have got more people on food assistance than you do fully employed in the united states of america. it just also is significant to me when you look at those numbers, there are a lot of hungry children in this country. does that tell us that people who are supposed to be getting this aid are not necessarily getting it? yes, it does tell us that. there is an enormous amount of duplication and the inspector of