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Era lard to cook food because its the cheapest. i mean, again, the choices that are being made are not between $5 and $15 products. its pennies. its nickels that decide -- >> where do people get the idea you can buy vodka with food stamps? where did it come from? >> i think, as with every huge safety net program there are going to be a few people that try to take advantage of that. the problem is that the narrative does not account for the vast majority of people. food stamps sees very little fr...

>> you know, thats pretty rough. i get the sense you dont get the great, healthy, fresh vegetables and all the new -- the stuff the rich people go shopping for. you got to take whats there. >> yeah, thats a woman, forget about the kinds of saturated fat. this is a family that cant afford cooking oil, and its going back to 1930s depression era lard to cook food because its the cheapest. i mean, again, the choices that are being made are not between $5 and $15 products. its pennies. its nickels th...

Legislation but lets look at whats in the bills. >> i think thats true and its why so many americans and i think this is a classic example of this, look at the policy priorities out of washington and go what are they thinking? they are so disconnected from what i actually care about. i have another hypothesis i would like you to weigh in on. it seems like the priorities of washington are much more closely matched with what the wealthy elite in the country want, rather than the general public. lo...

Million more people in the medicaid program. it will continue the practice collecting as much as it is allowed by law. unlike in the past when most medicaid recipients were poor or disabled, were finding men of people with serious assets but not a high income. one guy in in in the eseattle aa told us he wants no part of medicaid. >> i did not want to be on medicaid because it is supposed to be a safety net program. it is not for somebody with assets to pay the bill. i used to pay the bill. i did...

Misperception to americans that this has been a 50 year fight by big government. in fact, barely before president johnson got out of office we saw the war against poverty diverted and theres been a battle ever since just to try to salvage some of the war and the programs in the war on poverty. >> thats the point, reverend. we are now struggling to save what president johnson did. what he did was to build on the new deal, ah, a safety net program to make it more into a safety net. we still dont h...

Inequality has grown during the obama administration because theres a lack of growth. whatle has grown during the obama administration -- what else has grown during the obama administration, safety programs,deprograms, dependency has grown. dependency does not get people out of poverty. jobs do. unemployment benefits are an important safety net program. theyve been extended time and time again. and what studies show, this is actual data shows, it actually ad adds, extending them add to unemploym...

Inequality has grown during the obama administration because theres a lack of growth. whatle has grown during the obama administration -- what else has grown during the obama administration, safety programs,deprograms, dependency has grown. dependency does not get people out of poverty. jobs do. unemployment benefits are an important safety net program. theyve been extended time and time again. and what studies show, this is actual data shows, it actually ad adds, extending them add to unemploym...

58% oppose. we have seen this in fox news polling and others. my question is, if you go in there, favor, opposed obama care, among whites, 31% favor, 31% oppose, 67% favor, nonwhites, 60% favor, 40% oppose. my question is, in 2014, we expect health care to be a big issue. republicans say they want to run on it and that there is going to be a lot of bad news they are going to highlight. by 2016, could the president, democrats have turned the corner once some of the benefits start kicking in. >> c...

Enrollment period in december is a huge influx of people, a lot of traffic on the website. we all remember in early october it was traffic that initially crashed the site and revealed these other problems. >> at least thats what they said it was. >> it was the initial pr people on would have crashed the site. ni nina, lets assume it will start working but still have millions of people with canceled policies, it turns out this week were finding out that doctors are not being included anyway lot o...

November 30 and through the enrollment period in december is a huge influx of people, a lot of traffic on the website. we all remember in early october it was traffic that initially crashed the site and revealed these other problems. >> at least thats what they said it was. >> it was the initial pr people on would have crashed the site. ni nina, lets assume it will start working but still have millions of people with canceled policies, it turns out this week were finding out that doctors are not...