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World? people assume global poverty is a problem has to be addressed by governments giving out foreign aid. maybe the u.n. and the u.n. contradicts the title of my book by saying, yes, we governments, working together can end poverty in just two years. >> wow, two years. of course, 50 years ago, lyndon johnson claimed his war on peevpeeve poverty in america. the u.n. will do better. ted turner game them $1 billion for this. individual governments have squandered a trillion in foreign aid trying ...

Dependent. that was happening before the war. americans were lifting themselves out of poverty. government continue the progress for five years and then stopped it. >> we should have been more generous, done the other things that government can do to help folks. john: government does not teach a dependency. >> i am not here saying government is profit. government has some bad things, clumsy, bureaucratic. there are things it does really well. hey, private folks, step up. john: these graphs of th...

Promote it. >> i think government should, too, from the bully pulpit, but this administration is going tho opposite. we cant wringe our hands aboute thepe dedwreesing self-reliancef individuals without looking at the cause which is obviously the decreased emphasis on growth and economic opportunity in the private sector. right now we have seen the massive expansion of the public sector and a massive expansion of dependency. its a culture. >> we had a president, bush the younger, who was certainl...

To me, thats the tough vote. and it was a tough vote for the democrats. but i believe it was the morally correct vote, considering theres no ledger. dealing with boehner. these democrats know that there is no way republicans are going to extend unemployment benefits in 2014. that hurts to say that. so theres a calculation being made, i think, that the democrats will get through this politically. and theyll figure something out. theyll go out and theyre going to campaign hard, and theyre going to...

And there are other ones that came on so fast that it caught a lot of business leaders by surprise. the number one in that area is probably mobile. everyone assumed the mobile revolution would come slowly, talking about number of changes butted speed and the impact that peoples dependency on cell phones and ability search for anything they want at all times is really brought huge problems for some businesses and offered huge opportunities for others. if you look at the stats, people are checking...

Harm than good. the problem with just writing checks is creating a culture of dependency. what you need is a way that tie to work and family. >> a lots of programs sitting in congress that do just that. stay here. this is an important conversation for us to have. and were going to come back to this. we want you at home to weigh in on todays fire back question, exactly on this point. should job training be required to receive unemployment benefits. tweet yes or no using the #crossfire. well have ...

Society, you dont think there was welfare program and toney, that create as culture of dependency that over 20 years created rot in a lot of americas inner cities? had the wrong incentives. >> there is a culture of dependency in this country and the culture dependency, in part, is it can be found like in lower income families and certain urban areas. the culture of dependency can be found in the family program, in the pay outs for big banks. i have always believed, long believed, written about i...

Creating greater dependency from all of us in washington, d.c. it is a balancing act. ill say this to your point, mike. we preach capitalism and free markets to single moms. and then we give, you know, sort of these socialism breaks to big banks and wall street. >> good point. still ahead the chairman of the house budget committee congressman paul ryan joins us. keep it right here on "morning joe". "sign then drive sales event is back. which means its never been easier to get a new passat, award...

They -- that will cause dependency, people out of work dont want a job is a kinard. a couple of years ago mcdonalds announced it was going to hire 50,000 people, 50,000 positions, mostly part-time jobs. all of them were very low wage jobs and a million people applied for these 50,000 jobs. so people want to work. >> absolutely. you know, alex, it is sort of a difference in philosophy from democrats and republicans. there was a pew poll in 2012, they did a values voters survey, they asked what is...

Family. dependency has become the one enduring heirloom of too many fragmented families. >> that was ronald reagan, in his 1988 state of the union address. the idea when government tries to help the poor, when it gives them food or money or shelter is only setting a poverty trap that keeps the poor from climbing up the economic ladder. the government programs to aid the poor helped reduce the percentage of americans in poverty from 26% in 1967, to 16% in 2012. those facts dont matter to those --...