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More than $15 an hour. joining us now from washington is the author of that study, michael tanner. michael, welcome, its good to have you on. i read your article. i was quite frankly not shocked in some respects, a little interested on the other hand. wondering, you know, how do we get out of this quite of quick sand mess we are in when it comes it to people who legitimately need some help but also incentivizing them to go out and get jobs. >> the big problem is simply that the welfare state has...

More than $15 an hour. joining us now from washington is the author of that study, michael tanner. michael, welcome, its good to have you on. i read your article. i was quite frankly not shocked in some respects, a little interested on the other hand. wondering, you know, how do we get out of this quite of quick sand mess we are in when it comes it to people who legitimately need some help but also incentivizing them to go out and get jobs. >> the big problem is simply that the welfare state has...

A stunning new report showing that federal spending is just as rampant as ever with $95 billion being wasted on overlapping programs including not one, but three different government offices in charge of inspecting catfish. chief national correspondent jim angle is live in washington. jim, i hope you will not diss catfish? >> reporter: no, no. that is only the beginning of all the duplication, rick. fox has obtained the results of a new gao report that find 162 areas of duplication or wasteful s...

Job training, six overlapping programs aimed at redesigning camouflage combat uniforms and three federal agencies tasked with the responsibility of inspecting catfish. an msnbc ad featuring weekend host melissa harris perry is attracting harsh criticism, still. she has an unusual argument for increasing government spending on education. >> we havent had a very collective notion of these are our children. part of it is we have to break through our private idea that kids belong to their parents or...

76 different programs that treat drug abuse spread across 15 different agencies for instance. that costs $4.5 billion a year. 47 programs for job training. three federal agencies as you said that inspect catfish. two parts of homeland security that let five separate contracts to detect the same chemical. six overlapping programs in defense aimed at increasing number of camouflage uniforms from two a few years ago to seven. renewable energy programs top them all with 679 overlapping programs. lis...

Instead of the president insisting that agencies do everything possible to minimize the effect on the american people. instead theyve done the opposite. rights wrong. martha: a grated tore kwral also by charles krauthammer this morning called hail armageddon, mentioned earlier in the show. he quotes a gao study that was done in 2011 that adds up the numbers of overlapping programs that we have, like teacher quality programs, job training programs, that all do similar things, overlapping each oth...

The highlight of their day. over the past three years, as i said, we have tried to take some steps to fix the problem, to bring our government into this century. and in doing so to root out waste. so just to take some examples, we made sure that government sends checks to the right people, in the right amount. which should be obvious. but we have been able to prevent $20 billion in waste over last two years. just by making sure that checks are sent properly and were reducing error. we cut govern...

11:20 eastern. going to bring you the remarks live. and just a week and a day until the south carolina primaries. one of them will be in florida. newt gingrich attends the opening of his campaign headquarters. thats happening this hour. mitt romney speaks in south carolina in the next hour and r rick perry is going to be in bluffton. >> hes made a career out of poking fun at the political process. but now comedian stephen colbert actually talking about running for president himself. it...

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