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Going on now. over the last five years, you have seen the growth 70% growth in enrollment in food stamps. you have seen now the federal government is advertising folks to get more folks to sign up for food stamps. we are creating an entitlement culture in this country. what i worry about is we are going to have more people in the cart that are pulling the cart and in the middle of the greatest recession since the great depression. >> its already happening. >> yet another entitlement program that...

Americans will lose their employer health insurance. >> reporter: in fact the new law cost about a trillion dollars over the first ten years, four of which are before the law takes full effect beginning in 2014. the ten year cost of the bill is estimated by some to be $2.6 trillion and the administration argues it will not add to the deficit, meaning taxes of some kind will have to cover it. the administration has laid out more than 400 billion in increased taxes and 500 billion in cuts to medic...

Economy, the economy, jound ground and paid in cash and theyre taking jobs and, not welfare, gary, this is cash on cash cash type employment. so, bringing them up displaces more workers and on a relative basis its unfair to the people that are here. >> and the tax rolls, look, this can only be seen as a positive and i know what jonas is saying, yes, it will increase the overall participation right rate, amount of people looking for work and theyre working and the guys we talk about shovel ready ...

Dempsey is warning. is congress going to step in? brit hume is here. brit, the militarys upset about the sequestration cuts. whats going to happen? >> make no mistake about it. this is a serious set of cuts. the militarys already going to be down a half trillion dollars under cuts in the pipeline. >> this is another half trillion. this is a lot of money. this would make a difference in american force readiness. i dont know, you -- they have to parcel it out all over the world, but it would be an...

Dempsey is warning. is congress going to step in? brit hume is here. brit, the militarys upset about the sequestration cuts. whats going to happen? >> make no mistake about it. this is a serious set of cuts. the militarys already going to be down a half trillion dollars under cuts in the pipeline. >> this is another half trillion. this is a lot of money. this would make a difference in american force readiness. i dont know, you -- they have to parcel it out all over the world, but it would be an...

>> its a lesson, but its a lesson that he should have learned two years ago. the president, president clinton also reformed an entitlement program, welfare. you mentioned balancing the budget, he found ways to work with republicans. now it wasnt easy, he did veto things a few times and send them back and said bring it back to me. they found a way to work together and for the betterment of this nation and i think thats what voters want right now. this is a former president who has his own ideas a...

Pore than what president bush spent the last president on a daily basis. how is that good? >>guest: it is dread will spending record and the american people know that. but another thing is being left out. and that spending has not happened, obamacare. he is saying what a skinflint he is on the budget and we know what he did on obamacare passing the biggest new entitlement program in 30 years and it will cost $1.5 trillion over 10 years when the program is implemented, and this is not the record ...

Believe is unfair, tilted towards the wealthiest. whether thats true or not, i happen to think its more true than not. that needs to be addressed. and we have an entitlement program. entitlement programs that are spending way above what were taking in. you look at some states balancing their budgets including new york and others. and people have belief and hope that the federal government can do the same. so i think theres some differences in the political tone, in the political tenor between no...

These are the central issues that this country is facing right now. its amazing to me that president clinton disagrees this much with the sitting president. >> well, the president of the united states sat down across from the speaker of the house and they were on the verge according to some of some sort of a grand bargain but at the end, the president changed the terms, moved the goal posts and mr. boehner could not go along with it. so when it comes to the really big problems facing the country...

presidential nomination is all but over but we will get a taste tonight of whether the tea party will finally show some 2012 strength and a test of how important the culture wars will be in a year defined mostly today by economic challenges. our first stop indiana where 80-year-old senator richard lugar, leading republican voice on foreign policy is asking for one more term but facing a tea party and conservative revolt, revolts lugars critics prove the senator last touch with the folk...