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>> im both your groupie. >> let me make one point as everybody is always itself worried about the politics. thats exactly whats wrong with washington. everyone says, how does this affect the next election? i dont care. what i care is quit rationalizeing, what will do it when we finally get in charge? it never happens. we can rationalize it. we wont have a government shutdown. i dont care, the fact is the country is going down the tubes and all this does is add to it. >> can i just add a note of ...

>> sfwhor you raised that phrase the new england patriots do all the time, do your job. so in terms of just doing your job, you mentioned duplication of effort of federal programs. give us a couple of examples of duply categories of effort that costs taxpayers enormous sums of money. >> we spend $31 billion a year on job training programs which all but three of those programs duplicate one another, in other words, do the same thing. thats 48 different job training programs. if you just consolida...

Program make them job training programs, not a place you go and read a computer screen about low wage jobs. theres a lot of ways to make these programs work a lot better but were not addressing it. theres an idea we need to cut, cut, cut and cut. unfortunately what were doing, were not creating the atmosphere for people to actually become more productive. i think thats the argument, the change, how do you make people more productive, give back to society. >> theres a narrative, a sense somehow p...

Hours ago, went to the house floor, made a speech on this issue, he doesnt do anything like this very often, and talked about the fact that the house has passed. he said, 150 bills that the senate has not touched. listen to what he said. >> these bills would do things like increase the supply of american energy and build the keystone pipeline. roll back red tape and unnecessary regulations, provide more flexibility to working families, reform and improve job training programs, protect americans ...

Feed her family because the she doesnt earn enough. >> we are seeing in arizona. thought the headline about, about tanif, formerly welfare, because of the way the funding structure works in arizona, 5700 families wont get the checks. no one is running to the house floor today. i will note to pass a continuing resolution to just fund to make the recipients in arizona get their checks. >> one of the things we often misunderstand is that people often, particularly in an economy like this lose jobs,...

Billion a year in fraud and medicare. they shouldnt expect us not to borrow that from people -- children who have to pay the money back from us not doing our jobs. the problem with washington is congress. its congress not doing the oversight on all the waste. take for example 47 job training programs for the nondisabled. when you have the rest of the jobs we are spending $30 billion a year and nobody oversighted one of them and most dont work. there is $30 billion a year you are blowing. we are ...

Natural gas costs is to make american manufacturing industries more competitive, so more jobs stay here in the united states. >> right, and its led to a manufacturing resurgence in places like rural pennsylvania, youngstown, ohio, you know, these are often poor, depressed areas. this is leading to more jobs, far more than the 47 federal job training programs, for instance and really a boon for a lot of displaced workers. >> and dan, miracle of miracles, even california, governor jerry brown is s...

Wonderful if we could wipe out a little thing called recession from our history, our very near history, but we cannot. unfortunately, food stamp usage goes right along with where our economy is. we cant talk about able-bodied people going to get jobs when we know that there still are not jobs in many communities. the average new person who comes onto food stamps is only on the program for ten months or less. which happens to be the time it now takes to find a new job. >> so what about this other...

Attempts to invest in infrastructu infrastructure, create job training programs. its hospital mystic forecasting often -- were talking about. u-6 rate. thats the one that reflects underemployment, part-time employment and discouraged workers who have given up looking. that number for july was 14.3%. >> 1.8 million americans have given up looking for work. the effects of unemployment rate for my generation is 16.1%. theres a tragedy going on. but if you look deeper into that number, its not just ...

At a point of investing in solutions. and i think theres something that all of us can do, the foundation community can support programs like mentoring programs and job training programs. individuals around the country can step up and support mentoring organizations and become mentors themselves. we can advocate for responsible policies like the repeal of stand your ground laws and states around the country and our congress can step up as well and invest in black men and boys. i think theres some...