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That in the long run, right, if the thing works, people will like it. but in the short run, what youre going to see, every single glitch will lead a fox news segment for four months. and that can turn people in that window, when they have to sign up before the law goes into effect, that can turn people against it. sam seder from the "majority report," thank you for your time. sorry, no danish. theres a new president in town saying no one should have nuclear weapons, acknowledges the holocaust,...

Constituents, that they can keep their job, that they can actually get health care coverage, and im ready to do that, with the republican study committee, plan for america. >> okay. >> the american health care reform act. it is a wonderful plan that we can work with. >> we will post that plan to our website. i thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> joining me now is sam seder, host of the majority report, a daily political talk show. heres the thing i dont get. i find, were having thi...

Government, with its tasty, tasty candy will lure people away from being productive members of society, in an economy that has 7.5% unemployment. it is completely nonsensical. >> i also would like to know, how many lottery winners and dead people, if youre endorsing this policy, how many lottery winners and dead people -- do you think that we are funding? >> but does it really matter? if youre someone who believes in the safety net, which we all do, we just disagree to the extent to which size i...

Youre disincentivizing -- >> the logic of the policy, quite frankly, is that we are disincentivizing people getting into the labor market by giving them $1.40 for every meal, and we need to put work requirements, otherwise, the government, with its tasty, tasty candy will lure people away from being productive members of society, in an economy that has 7.5% unemployment. it is completely nonsensical. >> i also would like to know, how many lottery winners and dead people, if youre endorsing this ...

Into the labor market by giving them $1.40 for every meal, and we need to put work requirements, otherwise, the government, with its tasty, tasty candy will lure people away from being productive members of society, in an economy that has 7.5% unemployment. it is completely nonsensical. >> i also would like to know, how many lottery winners and dead people, if youre endorsing this policy, how many lottery winners and dead people -- do you think that we are funding? >> but does it really matter? ...

We just had -- we came off in the early to mid 2000s the biggest boon in the nations history. then we went to the second biggest recession. imagine that concept that you just talked about where these people have paid into it and now theyre in a different income position. that doesnt make sense. any kind of means test should be done at the time of consumption. for example, if i can afford to pay my health care i should pay for it. >> if we really care about the dpef city -- deficit and debt issue...

For. >> joining us now is sam seder and don peebles. >> great to be here. >> so theres the proposal on the table which i think is pretty good, and i just want to talk about the political dynamics here. theyre kind of hilarious to me. sam, what is your reaction to the reaction from -- of republicans to this proposal? >> its pretty funny. they are really in a tough position now because the president is playing a different game than hes been playing in the past. hes basically saying to the republic...

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Eligibility. thats the red line. now go ask the american people who have just been through an election, how do you feel about raising the retirement age on medicare, this is what they tell you, 71% of democrats oppose, 68% of republicans opposed and 62% of independent oppose. its very hard to find a less popular, you know, proposal than this and yet this is at the mind and the margins at the center of the conversation when people start talking about a grand bargain. sam, you were elucidating a k...

U.s. aid to israel, which is, of course, the 23rd wealthiest country in the world and yet we give it 25% of our entire foreign aid budget for reasons that have everything to do with israels definitions of military security. israel, of course, being the only nuclear weapon state in the middle east. >> i want to get back to this clash of civilizations. in some ways the clash of civilizations overlays a dynamic that i think is a classic dynamic. whether its classic, whether its cass stroh saying th...