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Skilled job. >> you know, its interesting, i said earlier on the show my mom was on welfare for a short period of time. single mom trying to raise two kids, trying to work to obviously put a roof over our head. there is, i believe, a need, there is a safety net value. its meant to be a safety net. its not to be a lifelong entitlement. number one, number two, we have to find a way to pay for it that top-to-bottom review to eliminate a lot of the fraud waste abuse and overlap that you are referrin...

Cases than a low wage, low skilled job. >> you know, its interesting, i said earlier on the show my mom was on welfare for a short period of time. single mom trying to raise two kids, trying to work to obviously put a roof over our head. there is, i believe, a need, there is a safety net value. its meant to be a safety net. its not to be a lifelong entitlement. number one, number two, we have to find a way to pay for it that top-to-bottom review to eliminate a lot of the fraud waste abuse and ov...

More than $15 an hour. joining us now from washington is the author of that study, michael tanner. michael, welcome, its good to have you on. i read your article. i was quite frankly not shocked in some respects, a little interested on the other hand. wondering, you know, how do we get out of this quite of quick sand mess we are in when it comes it to people who legitimately need some help but also incentivizing them to go out and get jobs. >> the big problem is simply that the welfare state has...

More than $15 an hour. joining us now from washington is the author of that study, michael tanner. michael, welcome, its good to have you on. i read your article. i was quite frankly not shocked in some respects, a little interested on the other hand. wondering, you know, how do we get out of this quite of quick sand mess we are in when it comes it to people who legitimately need some help but also incentivizing them to go out and get jobs. >> the big problem is simply that the welfare state has...

Everybodys clothes, shoes? when you take money from the economy or borrow it as were doing today to provide food stamps for somebody, you dont get a net gain to the economy. >> the food stamp program is one of a huge number of antipoverty programs offered we the federal government. the current tally, 126. the current cost over a trillion dollars a year. but what if washingtons most vested interest in the countrys biggest corporations are profiting from the explosive growth of these programs desi...

Antipoverty programs. thats about the same size as the u.s. national debt. while the poverty rate in the 1960s was around 15%, it remains stubbornly there to this day. so if these programs have not helped people that are in need, who has benefited? large corporations and this town, boom town, have profited enormously from the expansion of these programs. since 2008, federal government spending on food stamps has doubled. thats your taxpayer dollars. as the rolls increased, the profits in some of...

Antipoverty programs. thats about the same size as the u.s. national debt. while the poverty rate in the 1960s was around 15%, it remains stubbornly there to this day. so if these programs have not helped people that are in need, who has benefited? large corporations and this town, boom town, have profited enormously from the expansion of these programs. since 2008, federal government spending on food stamps has doubled. thats your taxpayer dollars. as the rolls increased, the profits in some of...

Antipoverty programs. thats about the same size as the u.s. national debt. while the poverty rate in the 1960s was around 15%, it remains stubbornly there to this day. so if these programs have not helped people that are in need, who has benefited? large corporations and this town, boom town, have profited enormously from the expansion of these programs. since 2008, federal government spending on food stamps has doubled. thats your taxpayer dollars. as the rolls increased, the profits in some of...

He says the revenue debate is now closed. spending is the problem. so he doesnt even want to discuss closing the loopholes and dealing with tax revenue. were just going to deal with spending. >> right. and that has always been his stance. and that is certainly the assistance of house republican plan that has been floated over these last couple of days. and it looks at spending programs. it looks at cutting revenue or cutting spending from antipoverty programs. thats why you see the president ver...

One specific question. in 50 years the poverty rate really hasnt changed in this country. its it the same. why havent we learned from that despite the trillions spent on antipoverty programs? why are we not learning anything? >> what your assumption is the antipoverty programs are meant to lift people out of poverty. what its meant to do is to keep people from falling into poverty and those in poverty going further into poverty. you know you look at where this welfare money. goes to manufacturin...