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>> 9-9-9. ive been trying to follow that. >> its a carefully coded message from satan. >> okay. >> flip it, baby. >> oh. >> see what im saying? apropos of your previous guest. >> we should have had you together. analyze that together. >> i think the next candidate to win in a republican straw poll is likely to be hugo chavez at this rate. >> its unpredictable. its wacky. >> its weird. >> no one paid more attention to the aftermath of hurricane katrina than harry shearer. your documentary is abou...

Tax plan. >> 9-9-9. ive been trying to follow that. >> its a carefully coded message from satan. >> okay. >> flip it, baby. >> oh. >> see what im saying? apropos of your previous guest. >> we should have had you together. analyze that together. >> i think the next candidate to win in a republican straw poll is likely to be hugo chaves at this rate. >> its unpredictable. its wacky. >> its weird. >> no one paid more attention to the aftermath of hurricane katrina than harry shearer. your documenta...

Ive been trying to follow that. >> its a carefully coded message from satan. >> okay. >> flip it, baby. >> oh. >> see what im saying? apropos of your previous guest. >> we should have had you together. analyze that together. >> i think the next candidate to win in a republican straw poll is likely to be hugo chaves at this rate. >> its unpredictable. its wacky. >> its weird. >> no one paid more attention to the aftermath of hurricane katrina than harry shearer. your documentary is about that. im...

They have concerns that this bill is robbing peter to pay paul. and here is why they say that. because one proposal to pay for this child nutrition bill, which has already cleared the senate, would pull money out of foodstamps, actually cutting back on the increase in foodstamps that low income americans got in the stimulus bill, wolf. >> theyve already done this to pay for a jobs, for a teacher jobs bill. they used some money from the foodstamps to pay for that already. democrats were onboard f...

Like that and i thought, well, of course theyre not going to cut. ever course theyre not going to cut and look at the medicare reimbursement cuts that they planned and that started back in 1997 and theyve never gone into effect ap they keep kicking the can down the road because they dont want to make the cuts and have some people feel some pain. >> neil: you know, the devils always in the details in this, but i find it a little rich, many democrats are doing the very same thing, they quite prope...

Run into some hard times. this new state aid bill, the $26 billion. theyre taking money away from the stood stamp program to pay for some of those. other bill, the hunger-free kids act is also paring away money from the assistance program. its kind of robbing peter to pay paul here but you want to make sure the kids get good nutrition in school. >> exactly. what ko what congress did yesterday was pass this aid to states act which is a good bill but they paid for it by making deep cuts if food st...

Just to be clear, its 10 billion for laid off teachers in states like california and texas, its 16 billion for medicaid payment toss various states. they say weve paid for it and the way they did it, i believe, and correct me if im wrong here, they raised taxes on companies from overseas working here in the u.s., and theyre going to phase out the food stamp payments for millions -- is it millions or is it thousands in america today? what is it? >> i think its millions. and bill, look at what the...

Between $200 billion and $300 billion more over the next two to three years, thats not in this bill anywhere. its going to cost over $100 billion to run the programs that the bill sets up over the next ten years. thats not in here. some things are left out. there are lots of gains with timing. you frontload the bill with taxes and have ten years of taxes with only six years of spending, it makes it look like it add up, but it doesnt. >> let me pick up on that because i think the response to that...

Capitols. i think youll see more of this. but these student just cant continue to take these double digit increases. a lot of the stimulus money was supposed to go to this. what some states have done is horded the money away and not forked it into education. >> if you have protesters across the country, saying the politicians we want the money for us. where has that money gone? >> its gone in the state coffers because theyre facing unbelievable deficits. look here in the state of new york where ...

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