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Want to cut the very programs that would help those same women who, if you dont have an abortion and you are more likely to then live in poverty or lower middle class, they also want to cut the programs that would help you be a better parent and raise your kid. what about life once youre born? >> i think thats a very central point that a lot of pro-life activists have tried to adopt in recent years, is finding that balance on that very, very point about, okay, we can be pro life but lets talk ab...

Thoughts. every time a dictator has power in the world and gets sick, he comes here. this is where you come from the state-of-the-art medicine, state-of-the-art science if youre trying to extend your life by a year or two. were doing the peer research and somebody else doing the applied research. why do you think this is happening? >> chris, it goes to show you the blunt instrument of the sequester and how hard it hit across programs like poverty programs, science programs. where were the consti...

One of the reasons theyve shot so much our way is because we are not afraid, we believe that were going to stand up and stand for what we believe? >> well, lets really focus on kookism now because your budget includes more money for food assistance program. >> right. >> when michele bachmann shoek at cpac on saturday she made a gross falsehood, a claim about money for poverty programs winding up in the hands of bureaucrats. let me read how "the washington post" concludes its four pinocchio rulin...

Poverty programs and medicare. >> it would be easier if he had revenue in the game. >> exactly. >> put revenue in the game. >> looking generationally. hes not necessarily, as he said over and over again, hes not applying this to those in the system or about to go into the system. hes looking at the 20 year old, 30 year old, 40 year old, whos got this down the road and trying to create an option because the system as it currently is, cannot sustain the population thats going to need to be served....

The party. >> angry guy in arizona. >> john mccain, town hall meeting. there is a reason why a lot of mo more centrists did not run last night, all of the crazies, and mitt romney and if you see turning out as we play the clips from the republican debate, the audience was one -- they dont care what michael says about republicans need new poverty programs or new ways to structure the government to make it work. >> environmental programs. >> they dont care. a lot of this for them is cultural. they...

Times" yesterday, profiting from a childs illiter dacy. "this is painful for a liberal to admit, but conservatives have a point when they suggest that americas safety net can sometimes entangle people in a soul-crushing dependency. our poverty programs do rescue many people, dont join the military escape route for poor, rural americans because its easier to rely on food stamps and disability payments most wrenching of all are the parents who think its best if a child stays illiterate because the...

Place that we need to recognize. we have surprisingly good news on unemployment. there will be i lag for that and witching off food stamps and get back to work. >> victoria 15 million more people on food stamps than four years ago. >> the scary thing to me, it is building over the last decade. we can talk about it as a phenom nan of the recession. but under president bush and president obama, we have seen a rise in the food stamp program, it is so large it is supporting a large bureaucracy that ...

19.2% average, arkansas 19.2%. they do have a democratic governor. texas, rick perrys state, 18.5%. joy, you know, you talk about governors who are legislating against their own constituents and this would seem to be that in action. >> absolutely. look who was not on that list, florida. florida was one of those states where it has a tea party governor who is beholden to whatever the tea party wants but he has blinked from this idea of walking away from such things as federal poverty programs bec...

At aspen and i talked about simpson-bowles being a template, you dont have to agree with everything in it, but we need a balanced approach to resolving this fiscal cliff. we have to -- we need more revenue but we also need to cut spending. we need to do it in a smart way. we need to cut red tape bureaucracy but make investments in programs like child nutrition, like the earned income tax credit, extending unemployment insurance. we these to make sure that were making investments that will pay di...

Our poverty programs, theyre really fairly marginal as michael was saying. now when governor romney made that gaffe or whatever it was that heather mentioned what he said was i dont worry about the poor because we have a safety net. the safety net as they just mentioned is very porous and barely there. but secondly these guys whack the heck -- whack and sack out of the safety net. whatever holes were there, medicaid, they cut -- the romney budget cuts $800 billion for medicate. >> you are talkin...