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Dont realize that the poverty program spends $18,000 plus a person, for a family of four, over $73,000. but the homeless population in l.a. alone is up 16% from last year, 75% over the past six years. and its not for a lack of money. they just voted to spend $4.5 billion to build houses for homeless people. but, sean, the money is not going to the people. this is a tragic human situation. i feel terribly for the people living in tents and defecating on the streets, but the fact is, a lot of this...

He is an ardent foe of the vietnam war seeing soldiers are minority and poor. kennedy is turning against johnsons war policy. >> bobby is pro war initially. as he becomes a u.s. senator, he starts to see the war turning bad. becoming more of a hopeless war. slowly but surely, he turns against the war. >> we spend more in a month in vietnam than on the poverty program. i think theres more we need to do within our local community. >> each our rfk spoke out against the war, it made johnson even mor...

He has been organizing latino field hands and leading a boycott against california growers. like martin luther king junior, chaves is an ardent foe of the vietnam war seeing soldiers are minority and poor. kennedy is also turning against johnsons war policy. >> bobby is pro war initially. but as he becomes a u.s. senator, he starts to see the war turning bad. becoming more of a hopeless war. slowly but surely, he turns against the war. >> we spend more in a month in vietnam than on the poverty p...

He is an ardent foe of the vietnam war seeing soldiers are minority and poor. kennedy is turning against johnsons war policy. >> bobby is pro war initially. as he becomes a u.s. senator, he starts to see the war turning bad. becoming more of a hopeless war. slowly but surely, he turns against the war. >> we spend more in a month in vietnam than on the poverty program. i think theres more we need to do within our local community. >> each our rfk spoke out against the war, it made johnson even mor...

Security. america is a cutting edge economy. our immigration system is stuck in the past. we must replace our current system of extended family chain migration with a merit-based system of admissions that selects new arrivals based on their ability to contribute to our economy, to support themselves financially and to strengthen our country. in rebuilding america, we are also fully committed to developing our workforce. we are lifting people from dependence to independence because we know the si...

Opportunity. that to me means working with this guy, a gateway tech, to close the skills gap, to make sure every person who wants a career and job can get the benefits. we passed this in july. before that we passed another skills bill. that means to me taking this 20th century poverty program that we have which is -- were in the 32nd year of the war on poverty. trillions spent, guess what, our poverty rates are act the saboue when we started the war on poverty 32 years ago. the status quo isnt w...

Sure every person who want a career and job can get the benefits. we passed that bill in july. that means to me taking this 20th century poverty program that we have, we were in the 32nd year on the war on poverty, and our poverty rates are about the same as they were when we started this program on poverty 32 years ago. i think we need to change our approach on fighting poverty. instead of measuring success on how much money we spend or how many programs we create or how many people on those pr...

Patient centered and offers choice to american insurance buyers and they seem to be caught up in all kinds of weeds here with the medicaid expansion. the medicaid expansion needs this radical overhaul that the house bill put it in. if was supposed to -- it was supposed to be a state centered program run by governors and accountable to by the state legislators subject to the people and im all for that. >> and as we look at the senate bill there is the concern about medicaid and medicaid expansion...

Second. the debt is totally out of control. our economy has grown in the past 15 years 74%. can you guess how much our debt has grown in the same time frame? 221%. they are supposed to rise in tandem. at this rate its unsustainable. simple as that. the economy could go broke in a couple of years. >> it is, david. people are concerned about it. democrats sell this as if it is manna from heaven, as if it has no cost associated with it. we know it will increase taxes, increase the debt, increase bu...

The spending. >> the cbo which is nonpartisan says 60% of u.s. households on average get more in government benefits than they pay into the system in federal taxes. thats a big swing. the democrats act like there are government spending fairies that pick this money off trees. it is so cynical what they are offering here. we are in deep yogurt. there is way too much grey poupon spending in washington, d.c. and we cant afford it. >> i want to pick up on the cynicism. what happens when you spend th...