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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 >> it apparently was the initial problem and revealed the later problem. >> more than 500 people on it would have crashed the site. nina, lets assume because at i some point the website will ons start working, but we still have mi...

I think they want to use this as a moment to grand stand. but what they totally miss, reverend, is that in business week today, there was an article about mcdonalds, the fast food program, that mcdonalds employees work at minimum wage or low wages and they -- mcdonalds uses $7 billion of our safety net program for their workers. low wage workers are just that. theyre workers. and this statement totally missed the fact about hard working americans trying to raise their families. >> im out of time...

Net, michelle, right, and we talk about what the republicans are trying to do or not do. eric cantor was out there on the floor of the house, pushing forward the sutherland amendment, and then post hoc, saying this isnt about -- >> this shouldnt surprise us. this is the party who spoke contemptuously of people who feel they are entitled to food. you know -- >> correct. >> no -- >> would i add -- i would add the following. i dont think there was any safety net program. maybe unemployment insuranc...

Let me explain. the bulk of the farm bill is the countrys food stamp program or what is now known as the supplemental nutrition assistance program or s.n.a.p. congress created food stamps as part of the farm bill in the 1960s when the shrinking population in rural areas translated into fewer and fewer of farmer state representatives in the house and consequently fewer votes for the farm bill. the ingenious idea was to yolk together the fates of the urban poor with farmers, thereby creating a muc...

Michael levitt, you not only dealt with it but administered the medicaid practical as health and human services . what are the dangers of not implementing it? >> frank properly indicated 16 more people go on the rolls of medicaid. the states are concerned on two counts. the first is, that also suggested they are worried that the federal government will not be able to pay their share. in order to incent vise the states they agreed to pay almost 100 percent. but they are making eligible for medica...

Michael levitt, you not only dealt with it but administered the medicaid practical as health and human services . what are the dangers of not implementing it? >> frank properly indicated 16 more people go on the rolls of medicaid. the states are concerned on two counts. the first is, that also suggested they are worried that the federal government will not be able to pay their share. in order to incent vise the states they agreed to pay almost 100 percent. but they are making eligible for medica...

Michael levitt, you not only dealt with it but administered the medicaid practical as health and human services . what are the dangers of not implementing it? >> frank properly indicated 16 more people go on the rolls of medicaid. the states are concerned on two counts. the first is, that also suggested they are worried that the federal government will not be able to pay their share. in order to incent vise the states they agreed to pay almost 100 percent. but they are making eligible for medica...

Very cheap is a problem that this book deals with very effectively, but the issue of food stamps as a safety net program has to be one that we protect. >> in terms of the quote that we let in from the book, the notion that those who are on food stamps are the ones that could probably make the most effective argument for food stamps, but they are literally scraping by, and so the dialogue is missing those voices, and has been fairly unmanufacturetive at best. >> i think thats the key thing to foc...

Jason-style hockey masks. unconfirmed report that is the gun jammed. but still among the people who fled the gunfire was the malls santa. listen to him. >> well i heard about 18 more shots, i decided it was a semiautomatic and i hit the floor and my employees must have just scattered and got out of there. when i got up there was nobody there but me. but then i didnt know whether i should who have or not, you know? >> reporter: and the clackamas town center mall is closed for the day. police stil...

A professor said, the -- those that are hungry. if you dont -- this is a safety net program. we talked about medicare and medicaid and social security. this is a safety net program but its not a safety hammock, right? its supposed to be there for a short period of time to help those in need. thats what we do. thats what government is there for. its not for you to lounge around on a hammock, a safety hammock. and its supposed to provide a fundamental need and no one, i think we all agree that no ...