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Several years, number of people who opted out have been very small. listen, keep one thing in mind about this program. every entitlement program since its inception, medicare specifically, have gone through a series of changes to try to address problems like this and medicare is still going through changes. for 150 years after it started. i think this is a small problem that can be resolved an very few companies are going to worry about it. other thing, health care premiums are deductible for bu...

Released on wednesday. evan, you write part of the white houses strategy seems to be deliberately stoking deliberate outrage. why? >> put this in context first. when obama came in to the second term, after the democratic defeat in 2010, progressives were feeling pretty down, thought obama was willing to compromise too much with the new republicans that came in after 2010 and once he got relike the and reelected on a platform that progressives pretty much liked, talked about raising taxes on the ...

Are going to make any discussion of this issue politically incorrect. were going to be accused of being anti-immigrant, anti-poor, racist, anti-elderly. if we get into the details of this, and we better be prepared for that. now, having said that, theres a growth of 20 million americans on food stamps. its possible for two reasons, one, an absolute failure of the obama administration in doing anything to fix this economy. or perhaps, two, they have encouraged people to come on that in the past w...

Americans to reduce the deficit. so now, finally, senate democrats feel that they can go ahead and echo that position. thats change. >> an narc the president is expected to release the white house budget in april. what kind of compromises, if any, can we expect to see there? >> i think he is going to kind of come up and say the same things that he has been saying. we will look at the changes he will make to the entitlement program. the republicans saying they will not raise tax and what the demo...

Market. >> im pro if you make a personal life decision you pick up the tab for it and thats not whats happening, billions and billions in diabetes. and obesity has become the latest entitlement program in america, im surprised you support it. >> sean: because the reality is i know in reality, i cant stop people from drinking 32 ounces of coke. >> we need to stop picking up the tab and lets let-- >> oh. >> if you want to be a little overweight then-- >> wait a minute, when you say that-- >> first...

Market. >> im pro if you make a personal life decision you pick up the tab for it and thats not whats happening, billions and billions in diabetes. and obesity has become the latest entitlement program in america, im surprised you support it. >> sean: because the reality is i know in reality, i cant stop people from drinking 32 ounces of coke. >> we need to stop picking up the tab and lets let-- >> oh. >> if you want to be a little overweight then-- >> wait a minute, when you say that-- >> first...

You know, really -- i dont know if it was his accusation that the white house was fear mongering, but when you have rush limbaugh on the right and mike bloomberg and everybody agreeing that the white house has overplayed its had an hand and that the fear morninging has gone too far, i thought it was fascinating to see obama take to the briefing room and back pedal from all of his dooms day talk. >> lets be fair, though. john boehner at one point said these are bad cuts, we dont want these to hap...

Cuts to them so they can turn around and run against democrats for entitlements. this is what they did in 2012. the president came up with ways of cutting medicare and then what did romney do? they said look at their white house. this is what they have done every single time. and what they are trying to do is with their strategy of gridlock convince them that they are so dysfunction al that they get rid of it. >> they said the president wont tackle the entitlement program and he wants to cut med...

Stopped those changes of voting in texas and in georgia, so to be -- the defense that we heard, martin and i as we sat in that courtroom yesterday, was that were not the only ones that have a bad pattern of this too. well, thats like saying, yeah, i may be a thief and others are stealing, so, therefore, i shouldnt be in court. thats absurd to me. i think that we need to keep voting rights when we see justice scalia saying this is a perpetuation of racial entitlement. like we are some entitlement...

Start program has no clear impact on language and literacy while the children are in head start. plus, there is no noticeable effect on these children after third grade. so if there is any improvement while theyre in head start, it doesnt last after third grade. so why are we planning to expand at significant cost, an expensive program thats under fire? why are we doing that? >> steve: well, the president just made the case, that if we give these youngsters the tools going forward, they will hav...