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Head start program. they talked about cuts to seniors and health care benefits. it kind of begs the question that if those were such priorities that were going to be impacted by the sequester, why arent funds being shifted around for that, those programs rather than outreach for obama care. >> she may have fuzzy math, she said she would love to have the budget of what for her promotion of obama care. >> shed like to have the budget of an apple product or blockbuster movie. the funny thing is, sh...

You wrote recently about this confluence of money, how it buys the sort of policies we now see that value deregulation, low income taxes over government programs like head start which actually protect the most vulnerable people in our society, children. >> thats right. i was reflecting on a story where they canceled a head start program in kansas because of the budget cuts which have almost nothing to do with the deficit, by the way. this is just dysfunction and a half politics and a woman whos ...

Here is the deal. i know a lot of people are afraid. my guns are all locked up very secure except for the one i keep on my hip. if someone wants to break in and get to it, i will get to mine first. >> will you give them five seconds? >> yeah, one, two, three. >> see i thought when you said were you a fan of the head start program -- >> no. you know what, it is stupid and intrusive. it is spiteful. i think it is more dangerous to those people who dont show up on these things. >> nongun owners are...

The impact of this. i assume thats because they hope there will be a political fix that will forestall those cuts. >> the that was the idea going into it. they were going to backload everything because, of course, congress would act three months in when they realized how bad it was. again, like i said, there was a perverse outcome to that, congress then sort of ignored it. they assumed it wasnt that big a deal. >> sam has a great anecdote, too, of a kansas congressman telling this poor head star...

Seniors getting fewer hot meals because of the cuts of meals on wheels and cuts to the head start program for disadvantaged preschoolers. could wind up with 70,000 children shut out of the program. even cuts to nih funding that could curtail critical medical research like cancer. ultimately affects all of us, of course. today we focus on something pretty scary. its cuts to funding for victims of domestic violence. access to a shelter, a place to go, can sometimes mean the difference between life...

Mesmerized by his popularity that they are not lookingri at the facts. martin luther king jr. said 50 years agother in 1963, something that is soet appropriate to today. there is nothing more dangerous than serious m ignorance. and thats what we have he gets away with it with thece help of the establishment media. >> bill: look u the public school system has pretty much a theoo collapsed. not in every district. there are some very, fine public schools. but across a the board we he have political...

Mesmerized by his popularity that they are not lookingri at the facts. martin luther king jr. said 50 years agother in 1963, something that is soet appropriate to today. there is nothing more dangerous than serious m ignorance. and thats what we have he gets away with it with thece help of the establishment media. >> bill: look u the public school system has pretty much a theoo collapsed. not in every district. there are some very, fine public schools. but across a the board we he have political...

You see the cutting edge to this thing. what is going to happen if this goes on? >> well, families who are already vulnerable in this country are going to suffer even more and in our program it means we close head start a week, two weeks earlier. well start two weeks later. that means that speech therapy that should be available for the young child, that the congresswoman described will not occur and, again, the folks who are already suffering the most will be asked to suffer even more needlessl...

Why dont you jam it the way the air traffic controller issue was raised. >> we did that very think in the house budget committee, we offered an amendment on head start to replace the sequester when it came to these 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds. the republicans said no. they said no unanimously, just like they did when we were talking about cancer researchers and medical innovation. chris, they are not considered in real debt reduction. they just want these cuts. they want the sequester but they a...

Of the program. and headlines across the country describe how local communities are already being hurt by these cuts to head-start funding. democratic congresswoman kathy castor of florida, has met with head-start families hurt by sequester cuts and wants hurt b sequester cuts and wants children to get the same attention as travel has gotten. ron herndon. tell us what you have covered with constituents and what the sequester cuts have done to those kids in the pre-k stages of life. >> yeah, 70,0...