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On food stamps, 92 million me out of the workforce lowest labor rate participation in 30 years and juan, you came here and defend the president the promise to keep your plan, keep your doctor and save money and now its a disincentive to work. you defend that? i dont get it, juan williams. beam me up. >> when you have a system that came out with a flawed website and the cbo says despite all those flaws. >> $600 million. >> we thought 7 million people will sign up, now we income its 6. thats good ...

Horrific in the black community. another thing we are not talking about is the teenage unemployment rate. so, you know, thats almost 40% in these inner city black communities. so there are a multitude a plethora of factors, unemployment, the breakdown of the family, the lack of education, all of that comes together. and really what you are creating in the inner city and i know people are going to go apoplectic when i say this economic dependency plantation created in the inner cities. i see it w...

Education statistics its horrific in the black community. another thing we are not talking about is the teenage unemployment rate. so, you know, thats almost 40% in these inner city black communities. so there are a multitude a plethora of factors, unemployment, the breakdown of the family, the lack of education, all of that comes together. and really what you are creating in the inner city and i know people are going to go apoplectic when i say this economic dependency plantation created in the...

Some believe they can cause horrible things. i know you are on a lot of drugs. how do you deal with that, with the people who say it is overmedicated? >> i believe that with all ailments we have sometimes people are overmedicated. that being said if you are diagnosed with something then theres a pendency. >> having gotten where you have gotten in life and talking about this and people saying i will never admit to be in that situation because i will look weak you come out and do it. kids can say ...

No, no. even a glass of beer or glass of wine is worse than ingesting this thc. how do you answer that? >> well, its not true. first of all, a glass of wine, white or red wine, protects the heart, protect the blood vessels. all for cardiovascular protection. however, marijuana, if a person smokes a joint every day, it predisposes them to addiction. people say pot doesnt cause addiction, we find it does especially daily smokers and we find 25% to 50% daily smokers are addicted. >> its not like he...

More money seven years ago than they are now. what we need to do is reject these policies of growing entitlements and dependency and instead embrace policies that will grow jobs for people. where are the jobs? >> you want less government but senator you want more government? >> the congresswoman forgets to mention that when obama became president we were losing over 700,000 jobs a month because of the greed and the recklessness and illegal behavior on wall street. is the economy good today? no t...

They cannot even figure out how to language these issues in a way that makes the republican message and the republican candidates seem more palatable to women. >> thats right. >> he should take this around the country, again, uncle sugar, go and -- >> yeah, back to what beth was saying, though, the reason why they cant message around this is because -- i mean, where are the republican women who are coming out and talking about the democrats war on women? >> yeah, yeah. >> the real big republican...

To qualify for impact, participants must be nonviolent offenders and free of pending felony charges. >> what motivated me to be in impact was i was trying to make a change in my life. im at hunt for possession of marijuana, which is actually my second felony. i mean, people used to tell me on the street that i was addicted to marijuana and i would be like, no, i just use it because i dont want to feel this pain or that pain. when the truth of it was is at first it may have started out as that re...

We had the stimulus that went into effect. the stimulus that caused taxpayers $800 billion and was supposed to save the economy. and here we have a 35-year low labor participation rate and have record number of people on food stamps. i dont think it worked. >> now, i dont know what the math is theyre using to get this, and i dont deny those who need assistance should get assistance, but have we gotten to a point -- >> reporter: agreed -- >> -- one out of three of us are getting food assistance a...

Teenagers, it affects their functioning. >> jack daniels doesnt? >> yes, exactly. and -- >> to be fair to you youre against both. >> im against both. absolutely. but when it comes to marijuana and the youth culture, think about their memory, theyre cognitive understanding, their ability to make decisions and coping? so instead, how are they coping? theyre using escapism through marijuana. how about adults? how are they coping? isolating through marijuana? if we as a culture become believers this...