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Quoted in there talks about the submerged state. she did this great research. have you used a government program? right? all these people said no. people reported never having used a government program. 57%. actually people who have not used a government program is 4%. if you look at the different kinds of government programs, the more submerged it is, the less likely. if youre on food stamps, people know thats a government program. only 25% of people say i havent gotten a federal program. if yo...

Have you used a government program? right? all these people said no. people reported never having used a government program. 57%. actually people who have not used a government program is 4%. if you look at the different kinds of government programs, the more submerged it is, the less likely. if youre on food stamps, people know thats a government program. only 25% of people say i havent gotten a federal program. if you look at unemployment insurance, 43%, the home mortgage deduction, okay, 60% ...

No. you can always go to our blog at ed@msnbc.com. for more on this, let me turn to my friend congressman john larson of connecticut. good to have you with us tonight. >> good to be with you, ed. great, great introby the way. >> well, thank you, sir. you add to it. youre now taking over "the ed show." what do you think? what is going on here? >> the other thing, is this is all the underpinnings for the true message. and when they talk about entitlement reform, this is what really cuts i think to...

Liabilities of pensions all over the budget and not just on the back of one group of people being our soldiers. $6.3 billion in is a lot of money in the scheme of things and in the $3.7 trillion budget its not a lot of money and we can find a lot of money to do that. >> are you suggesting it would come from other peoples pensions besides? >> youre indexing the index and what the resolution yesterday that passed the senate after the budget passed, said that we should put everything on the table a...

Painful. >> a lot of people department g -- department get that. the organizing strategy is if we agreed not do something done a they succeeded. >> stan, it is interesting here what the cbo said about the future. to put the federal government on a sustainable path to the long term, lawmakers would have to make significant changes to tax and spending policies, letting revenues rise, reducing spending for large benefit programs below the projected levels or adopting some combination of those appro...

Now, fast food companies say any sort of raise just isnt going to happen. that $15 an hour especially is a nonstarter. theyre saying if they raise the wage of their workers, its going to get passed down to the consumer in the form of higher prices for food. there are no hard numbers on this, but its estimated that the price of a burger could go anywhere from $3 to $3.50. now, thats really the heart of the question. is that that big of a deal? some economists say its not because if you pay these ...

It disturbing. in the end, i am not sure that in terms of fiscal policy and position on anything from earned benefit programs to sort of budget cutting, obama is that much more different than clinton. >> yeah, i was going to say that. i think that -- i dont really agree with that quote, the way its played out. i can see where it looked that way back then. first of all, in terms of the relationship, let me quote the buddha, who said -- >> please, please. >> sometimes the big dog runs with you, so...

Safety net, earned benefit programs, whatever, however you want to characterize them. ill let you go ahead. >> we have to keep in mind, it matters not at all what tom cole, john boehner says, mitch mcconnell says, because nobody listen toss them. i dont care if tom cole is moderate or whatever he is, or john boehner, like he says, were not going to shut down the government. the pocket of conservatives running the house republican conference dont listen to what their leadership says. tom cole cou...

Medicaid and social security, plays right into this. cruz wants to give these guys a super highway, a pathway to vilifying everything that we have when it comes to earned benefit programs. this, of course, is going to enam enamor him even further with the conviction crowd. and ill tell you, it really is a brilliant strategy, because nobody else -- who would think the chairman of the fcc would play right into somebodys political campaign? you but its very clear what cruz is doing. are you concern...

Mitch mcconnell, will not pursue this strategy again, because it clearly will not work, shouldnt work, and we ought to get down to -- >> but you have no assurances they wont go down this road again, do you? >> no, we dont. >> okay. and i think thats -- >> but let me tell you, e. the american public needs to -- and voters and every one of these districts needs to tell every one of us shall dont do this. stop this playing games. get them to work. make sense with one another and for our country. >>...