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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 --...

Argue that these assistant programs increase dependencies and dont help the poor escape poverty. paul ryan put it this way, he said safety net programs threaten to become a hammock that lulls citizens into lives of complacency and dependency. so the bottom line is are they an expensive band-aid rather than a real solution? >> well, they are a real solution and i think john is right, we do need fiscal responsibility. it is fiscally irresponsible for us to cut many of these safety net programs whi...

Government jobs to be lecturing other people about getting government benefits. you know, they need an incentive to actually refresh their thinking about the long-term unemployed. this is a drag on the economy, but its not out of choice. the long-term unemployed want to be self-reliant. these benefits -- these arent european-style benefits, where theyre permanent. theyre without end. and even there people say, i would much rather have a job than permanent benefits. its just unclear what kind of ...

Finished that diatribe with a bah or humbug. two million people you are talking about cut off their lifeline to be able to pay their bills and feed their famlist. and, more importantly, the long-term uninsured action benefits the economy. it adds $38 billion to the gdp because of multiplier effect of spending. if it is cut off, estimates say you will lose 300,000 jobs in the economy rather than gaining it. this motion going from a year to, going from half a year to a year or maybe a year-and-a-h...

For. if you do that you do a disservice to these workers. there was a study that came out that said if you have a worker on unemployment insurance 99 weeks, which would you hire. every employer, nearly 100% said they will always hire the person out of work four weeks. when you allow a person to be on unemployment insurance for 99 weeks, youre causing them to become part of this perpetual unemployed group in our economy. >> thats sort of breathtaking, ruth. its the unemployment insurance that cre...

A lot of people are just giving up and stopping looking for jobs. theyre going on disability. the dependency on government has absolutely ballooned until this quote/unquote recovery. i think folks in your camp want more dependence on government, yes? >> no, we want jobs. >> but how dots there? >> in fact you follow the presidents agenda, which has created 45 straight months of job growth. that is going the right direction. >> its not fast enough and the quality of the jobs is not good enough. th...

The purpose of government is to take from them that have in order to give to them that dont. we are going to have free cell phones for some people or we are going to have this and going to have that increasing dependency on government whenever government decides that the system is somehow not fair. if you got more than the government decides is fair were going to give it to people who have less than we think they ought to have. >> i dont know. and i guess i would add to that aspect. i think they...

Something terry said. look, i think most people in america regardless of their ideology want to make it on their own, they dont want to be dependent on government. we live in the greatest cup in the world. opportunity is the core value on thanksgiving, and i really think we need to recognize thats what this country is about, not dependency. >> well, you know, i wish democrats would actually make that argument -- >> its not the argument, its the reality. >> wait a minute, a reality? earlier this ...

Sweeping. you dont know anything. >> people are more open about those kind of things now. >> you are either born in a marital situation or you are not. what do you say?ithe >> we have been talking about time frames here.at d i would point to the mid to late 1960s when you had two major things happen. number one, economically, you had linden johnson with the great society.ith you had the development of the massive welfare state. and the massive government spending thatnt goes along with it. >> di...

You dont know anything. >> people are more open about those kind of things now. >> you are either born in a marital situation or you are not. what do you say?ithe >> we have been talking about time frames here.at d i would point to the mid to late 1960s when you had two major things happen. number one, economically, you had linden johnson with the great society.ith you had the development of the massive welfare state. and the massive government spending thatnt goes along with it. >> didnt that h...