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>> the united states pays roughly $1 trillion a year on poverty programs, most of which disproportionately benefit blacks. is that not enough? >> thats not reparations. thats not reparations. jim crow did not disproportionately hurt black people. redlining did not disproportionately hurt black people. it was targeted at black people specifically. so its not the same thing. at all. we dont have a policy at all. and i say this about affirmative action. i say this about any policy that you want to ...

Much it costs. turns it its probably not the $1.4 billion, $1.5 billion first mentioned. maybe around $30 million or so. does it occur to you that theres a great deal of focus and flipping around the mainstream media to say this is a military boondoggle and this is the same media that if i were to package a number of food programs and poverty programs that have never worked, school lunch programs where the kids pass up the food all together and dont get it at all, as a blimp, as a blimp it would...

The gap, not about the floor. >> well, i want to talk about the floor. in the united states when we look at poverty, yes, theres -- yes, poverty programs have worked for people. for seniors, we have all but eradicated, brought up the floor of poverty. if you look at the country, poverty has deep ened in the united states to historic terms. so not just the number of people living below poverty but the number of people living below half the poverty rate has grown. so the floor, in fact, has fallen...

Going to be the nominee. i think early on jeb has talked about what it takes to win the election in general. there was a lot of criticism. it gave donald the room to come in and capture 21% of the vote. so dont -- ive got the criticism of what jeb said. hes talking about the opportunity to create what he created in florida as governor which is a pretty good record he hasnt talked enough about. >> david, jeb bush maybe has a point on poverty programs. because as ronald reagan once said, we fought...

Programs have filled miserably in lifting the truly disadvantaged system up to a position where they can move towards the middle class. so liberals are right to say that any poverty programs have reduced poverty and conservatives are right to say that these same programs may help foster a permanent middle class. and from that starting point the two can come together and learn whats worked and improve on what hasnt. proven that we can indeed reduce poverty. the trick is, and al you havell you hav...

. welcome back to "hannity." the country is in denial over who to blame for baltimores problems. this man represents the city of baltimore trying to brush aside who is really at fault. >> you guys are as responsible for what has and hasnt been done as anybody else? isnt that fair? >> chris, come on chris. you know, its not about personalities, its about policy. you know and i know that a lot of the policies coming down from washington, coming down from the state actually, too, but coming from ...

People in washington, d.c., commentators like to say you just need to throw billions of more dollars at a problem. again, i say this at somebody that always talks about the need for investment in these inner cities. and in education. and in poverty programs. in job training programs. but if you dont take care of the societal ills like the councilman was talking about then as he said you can send somebody to an $8 million school, but it does absolutely no good if when they go home they have a sha...

Much charity to make a difference. private charity would do much more if government didnt discourage it. today they are fewer mutual aid societies because people say why do it myself? why try when we have the big welfare burr rock sees. taxes are already paid for food stamps housing vouchers va, long-term. college, remedial education and so on. also governments poverty programs have so many rules. i do it myself but the department of paperwork may say i did something wrong. i will let the profes...

. john: there are three ways to help people who need help, government can try to do it. give people money, start programs. charities do that too, and id say theyre better at teaching people how to help themselves. theres the saying goes teach a man to fish. then theres a third way, i think its the best way. ill get to that later in the show. but first lets debate the first two. when i was in college, president lyndon johnson declared all-out war on human poverty. he said for the first time in ou...

>> her husband tried to help out and then stepped in it as well. he said he bought 15 swiss watches giving speeches in switzerland. the longer issue is how long they have been in the game and has that separated them from the american experience and watt it is like to struggle and be dead broke? she is someone who has, i think both of them, came from middle class background and that is something important politicians need to do and that is keeping in touch with what is going on in peoples life. t...