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Fuel, right? we have section 8 housing vouchers. theres all different programs we have in the safety net. milton freeman said, get rid of all that stuff. give people money, let them do with what they will. >> yeah, i mean, its a decent idea. you couldnt get rid of the whole welfare state, and it would be good to have, like, a tiered system. a guy who im friends with whos a blogger has a wonderful piece about a tiered system where you could have retain, for instance, disability payments, give an ...

New york has been remarkable. >> absolutely. people from every walk of life stepped up. people committing themselves blankets and food and but what were seeing and you led the show with this, that attempt now to cut back on unemployment benefits, you know, if the sequestration goes through, well lose 185,000 section 8 vouchers, 185,000 vulnerable families with children that are going to be homeless. it all ties together. the private sector has stepped up. but it cant begin to make up for these e...

Pushing other voices on the other side will be critically important. >> i think the work, you know, the new york times did in highlighting this family, i think, mark, to your point, has just been incredibly powerful and i hope does serve as an awakening and flashpoint for folks. mary, i want to give the last word to you. in terms of policies, nationwide policies, things we can do at the federal level, what should we be doing to combat homelessness in america? >> we know it works. thats the good ...

>> i owned restaurants and i pay taxes on it. it causes unemployment. >> what do you say to people who lose jobs? >> listen to me. >> that doesnt help. minimum wage has nothing to do with it. >> the increase is 5% in the last 35 years. this is not america. >> we have already doubled. >> this is america. im proud of my country. >> we have doubled the number of people on food stamps. >> you are against filibusters. >> heres the problem. what is jamu going to say to people who lose the jobs? >> sec...

Taxes on it. it causes unemployment. >> what do you say to people who lose jobs? >> listen to me. >> that doesnt help. minimum wage has nothing to do with it. >> the increase is 5% in the last 35 years. this is not america. >> we have already doubled. >> this is america. im proud of my country. >> we have doubled the number of people on food stamps. >> you are against filibusters. >> heres the problem. what is jamu going to say to people who lose the jobs? >> section 8 housing, food stamps. >> w...

>> almost certainly, they cant be much worse, can they? an thats what used to happen in new york, wasnt it? wasnt there a time when people got sort of vouchers? >> there used to be a time when homeless people were able to jump the line for section 8, the federal section 8 program. theres a very long waiting list. the bloomberg administration argued that basically this gave homeless people -- poor people an incentive to become homeless so they could get to the front of the line for public housing...

>> they stopped the housing people keep coming they dont have anywhere else to go to. theyre in genuine need. no way to exit. you have no families. staying for over 400 days on average. what that does to a child is pretty, pretty grim. so the gold standard if you want to take a step back nationally what works the best is federal section 8. a longer term -- >> how long? >> does not have a term limit. time limit. people can stay on. stay on on average of five years. they pay 30% of their income. w...

Services for mentally ill. giuliani did a little bit of that. what he did not do was investments. i will say to their credit all three of them used federal resources to get families up and out of the system section 8. so how we wound up in this catastrophic situation in new york is mike bloomberg ended up ahousing subsidies for homeless families. >> why? the real estate industry? is new york a place in your opinion, assuming you know a lot about this because of your work with homeless people, is...

Law and applying it to differences over politics would destroy this country. move on should be ashamed of itself and the 30,000 people who signed that petition should be embarrassed to join in such an absurd petition. >> i thought you were a liberal democrat. arent you supposed to like move on? >> i hate move on because theyre a bunch of radicals, theyre not liberals, they are not tolerant of differences. i am a centralist liberal, and i get along very well with centralist conservatives. what i ...

Law and applying it to differences over politics would destroy this country. move on should be ashamed of itself and the 30,000 people who signed that petition should be embarrassed to join in such an absurd petition. >> i thought you were a liberal democrat. arent you supposed to like move on? >> i hate move on because theyre a bunch of radicals, theyre not liberals, they are not tolerant of differences. i am a centralist liberal, and i get along very well with centralist conservatives. what i ...