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Work. for what the feds spend now on entitlements every single poor person in america could be handed almost 20,000 a year. mitt romney would be wise to hand out his own anti poverty program. if you are getting entitlement you have to show where the money goes. it cant go to buy drugs or alcohol or to be used in a casino. the poor will always be with us. there will be human beings who cannot and will not support themselves, but they must be responsible in trying to help these people especially t...

Morning. michael, the trend that is surprising is to see in 2000 it was 34 percent of people paying no federal income tax, why the dramatic increase? >>guest: well, go back to the evil reagan time when the itch are getting richer, 85 percent of all americans filed an income tax return where they paid some money, and only 15 percent paid no money or were dependent open someone else. and it is an astonishing change. one thing to look at is the economic downturn from 2008. we have never had numbers...

Bill billing the stat was something like 10 trillion more than that since lyndon johnsons poverty program 60 until now. poverty rate only dropped 3%. so i dont know if its ever going to be enough. because, look, you are a smart guy. i wouldnt have you on if you werent. you could not in the five minutes allotted to you tell me exactly what the african-american community needs to be more prosperous. you could not do it? >> the range of issues. health care, housing, education. >> health care, what ...

>> it is the para site devouring the host. the host is public enterprise and the unions and government. >> it is crazy the private sector is dying and the federal government is providing more and more pay and benefits with employees at the same time. now if you include the pension they make double. >> more than double. they have fantastic benefits. >> people say the union thugs are sucking the life out of america. >> i say it is the greatest anti poverty program that was ever developed. >> jobs ...

>> it is the para site devouring the host. the host is public enterprise and the unions and government. >> it is crazy the private sector is dying and the federal government is providing more and more pay and benefits with employees at the same time. now if you include the pension they make double. >> more than double. they have fantastic benefits. >> people say the union thugs are sucking the life out of america. >> i say it is the greatest anti poverty program that was ever developed. >> jobs ...

But the new york city subway used to have posters written in spanish advertising a gay, lesbian domestic violence hot line. thats how fine grained it get in new york new york city on the subway pushing welfare programs. it informs and pushes them. >> but getting back to the poverty program and theyre pushing food stamps and welfare programs and they have a tendency to keep poor people poor. once you are on the dole it is hard tore get off. >> it is. incentives are wrong. they encourage people to...

Society, by the way. ive known people from well off backgrounds who, through no fault of their own, go into welfare and they have trouble getting off of it. >> the problem now is were in a vicious cycle. the more money we spend as a country on entitlements, the less money is available to invest in businesses and create those jobs that morgan pointed out we correctly needed. obama doesnt understand that. he thinks by increasing entitlements, youll give people more money and that will revive the e...