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>> the american dream is the idea that its been brought up, but its about hard work and its not a dream. it should be something available to everybody. if you work hard, if you pay taxes and you get a lot back from the government and have a lot of opportunities, you can succeed. its wonderful that you succeeded and i hope everyone succeeds from hard work and not from the idea of a dream. >> everyone wants the american dream to be there. it has been said before and should be said again there is f...

Badly, neither of them have the largesse to need a bailout from the people. knowingly and recklessly squandering their resources. it sounds a little like pull your pants up, pull up your boot straps, sounds like you guys are morally and ethnically -- >> i wonder if the racial part of detroit is how people respond, look, new york was bailed out. the government came out and helped the city of new york. detroit deserves the same help that new york got many years ago. this is the city that put the w...

Bargain. i think the progressive position should be we want to invest in the short term. the deficit is not an issue this year but over 10 years, 20 years it is because government growth over the long term has to have some kind of fiscal belt. >> i just wonder, the thing that seems to appeal to republicans is the notion of the american dream and the pulling ones self up by the boot straps. thing the president is also shining the light on is economic mobility and the fact that if you are born in ...

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Women like me who were very young perhaps when they experienced this challenge. i made a choice to raise my child and shes 30 years old and im so proud of her and so fortunate that i had the ability to make a choice and also had incredible opportunities in texas to lift myself up by my boot straps and move into a better life for myself and my daughter, but not every woman has the opportunities in front of her that i had and i think for him to say that really shows a calloused disregard and a com...

Well, you can -- >> steve: once you get something free, you dont want to give it up. >> how do you get away from a free program? once you start giving something away for free, how do you withdraw that and say, you dont need it any longer? >> brian: it worked for a while with welfare under bill clinton. >> that was in the mid 1990s when the economy was growing 4 or 5% a year and the unemployment rate was below 4%. you could do it then. now all of those people who received something from the gover...

Roads and areas to which medical personnel cannot travel. just an absolutely horrible scene. but, i was in oklahoma city after tim mcveigh brought down oklahoma city federal building and watched in awe and just mesmerized by their greatness as they were able to pick themselves up by their boot straps. hug each other and make their way to a new day and they were heart land strong and a beacon for all of america and, frankly, for all of the world in the heels of the devastation they have suffered....

Ill get o whether or not its worth the money in 3d and worth seeing in theaters. but i sat down with there leonardo dicaprio and he was an in-- it was an honor to talk about his vulnerabilities as an actor. >> i wanted to show this to you. ive been collecting movie stubs since i was 11 years old. i kept my romeo and juliet one. but the price was three bucks that day. >> wow. >> what is it now? nine? >> 9 or 10 or 12 for 3d. im not going to keep that. >> you know what im going to do? im going to ...

Theres no margin of error for a young african-american kid who makes that mistake. now theres a strike on his record, has to tick that box. he cant end up in the mainstream, so he goes to the underground economy. we step back and wonder why it goes that way. we say pull yourself up by your boot straps. we have a stop and frisk epidemic here in new york city and thankfully, its getting the attention in the courts that it deserves. stop and frisk is a program where we stop 700,000 people on the st...

Make to the president. conservatives on the right say this is the right thing to say. he has attracted imagination of the american public. what is it and why? >> i think part of this is and i wrote a column a while back, how in many ways, dr. carson represents the booker t. washington tradition in african-american culture. there was always this great divide --. bill: meaning. >> booker t. washington, self-help, buy by your own boot straps, a who are ray show alger argument. that black empowermen...