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Stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. ask your doctor about cialis for daily use and a 30-tablet free trial. welcome back to "hardball." weve been shining a light on the people and organizations hurt most by the across-the-board arbitrary spending cuts known as the sequester in a series segment that we called "the unkindest cut." in "the huffington post" reporter sam stein has been doing the same thing. this week one of the programs that he focused on was headstart. as you can se...

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Sequester cuts. >> brian: shocker at the box office. the blockbuster kind of flops. instead, female comedy, one in particular, took the top spot. >> are you about to go rocketed by an officer? >> i am an officer and thats my perk. >> can you lay down here? put your slam it in the door. >> girl, you better run. [ laughter ] >> alisyn: it opened with $40 million in sales, while " white house down" fell with low expectations. >> eric: any surprise there is? >> yeah. "white house down" was hugely an...

The president, to his great credit, gets how wildly cruel and destructive the republicans proposed cuts would be and yesterday the white house threatened to veto the entire bill if congress passes the house version. "the bill makes unacceptable deep cuts in s.n.a.p. which read a statement which could increase hunger among millions of americans who are struggling to make ends meet including families with children and senior citizens. senior advisers would recommend that he veto the bill." right n...

Farm bill that would cut food stamps by $20 billion over 10 years which means some 2 million people would lose benefits under the house proposal. the president, to his great credit, gets how wildly cruel and destructive the republicans proposed cuts would be and yesterday the white house threatened to veto the entire bill if congress passes the house version. "the bill makes unacceptable deep cuts in s.n.a.p. which read a statement which could increase hunger among millions of americans who are ...

Unfortuna unfortunate. plenty of suggestions have been put over there and the phone never rings back telling come over here and show me how you do it. >> the payroll taxes have gone up or the payroll holiday was erased. american con sierms are paying $200 billion more plus the sequester cuts. is that hurting consumers at all in. >> you might think it would be but its some of the consumer sectors whether were seeing better job growth. if you look at restaurant, kind of hospitality side of job mar...

Than $400 million in sequester cuts are going to shutter access to critical early childhood services. should the president be campaigning more on that issue and make americans more aware of whats happening to american chilled right now because of the sequester? >> the sequester is devastating. theres no upside. its not only problems going to happen in the future, he had a number of head start programs around the country have to close early this year. because they ran out of funds. we have milita...

So tell me what these federal cuts will mean to domestic violence programs. >> well, the sequester cuts alone are going to mean the estimate is 105,000 fewer victims of violence will be able to receive services and we already have such a shortage of services. we did a one-day -- 24 hour census that found that over 65,000 victims were served that day by over 1600 local programs. but 10,471 calls for help -- >> wow. >> received no services because there simply were not the resources. 10,471 calls ...

To make ends meet. there has been an immediate impact from the sequester cuts from a two and one standpoint. >> when you hear people saying on a show like this the economy is getting better, things are improving, house values are up, does that resonate with what your experience is? >> not at all. not at all. >> what would it take for you to be feeling like we were in a better place economically? >> simply put, we need a living wage. we need to make enough money to live. just simply put. theres o...