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Has grown from 14.3% in 2009 to now almost 17% of the country. and the number of americans participating in food stamp programs have also nearly tripled over the past decade. while some reports are warning that the sequestration cuts are bound to make this worse, its interesting to note that these numbers all worsened amid a massive increase in spending to fight poverty. federal spending on the poor hit more than $569 billion in fiscal year 2011. thats a 5,500% increase from 1907 which far outpa...

The money. >> its really, true line credible, jon. its exactly why the vast majority of american people have absolutely no faith whatsoever in the federal government. as william la jeunesse pointed out just a couple of weeks ago janet napolitano was saying the border is as secure as its ever been and this is very much part of all the negotiations about figuring what to do with the 12 million illegal aliens currently in the country. no one wants to move forward until we figure out that the border...

>> shepard: i had to run back here. but not a moment too soon. the president has signed a spending bill to fund the government through september. what it does is keep all the sequestration cuts in place but at least the government keeps the lights on until the end of september when theyll no doubt be haggling over still other issues and threatening a shutdown or god knows what then. but for now, keep going. all right in the meanwhile, getting out the vote with the healthcare law. a draft of the ...

Mostly low risk illegals go due to the forced buts from sequestration cuts. apparently that was not entirely the case. a new report in florida alone, 76 to 25 released in hat criminal convictions. katy is tracking the story. leaving aside the fact that a lot of these let-goes were done prior to cuts that were supposedly coming into effect -- those specific cuts never did -- the argument was that these were werent going to be dangerous people. its the opposite. how bad is this any. >> pretty bad ...

Is still under attack from republican lawmakers. but increasing number of states that previously opposed the law are now signing on to its medicaid expansion program, with some big surprise turnarounds from states like arizona, and florida. so that leads us to our question of the day for all of you. will obama care stand the test of time? talk to me on twitter. my handle is @alexwitt. and i will be reading some of your tweets throughout the day. a critical move by congress this week to delay fur...

Resolution bill because he want today make sure that. >> sean: baloney, baloney. >> air traffic contollers-- >> its not happening, theyre not doing it and if you look at the latest estimates of the senate democratic budget, dana, is going to add 50 grand in debt to every household in this country and were giving 3.8 million dollars for the african elephant conservation grant. help me out. >> yes, to teach humans something about decreasing human and elephant conflict. here is an idea, just move, ...

Resolution bill because he want today make sure that. >> sean: baloney, baloney. >> air traffic contollers-- >> its not happening, theyre not doing it and if you look at the latest estimates of the senate democratic budget, dana, is going to add 50 grand in debt to every household in this country and were giving 3.8 million dollars for the african elephant conservation grant. help me out. >> yes, to teach humans something about decreasing human and elephant conflict. here is an idea, just move, ...

Inside the education department. look at what tom coburn, the senator found, just a year ago, teacher quality. everybody wants teacher qualities. he found 82 different programs across the government. 64 of them, all separately administered, inside the education department. i mean, theres a lot that-- >> and here is what is particularly annoying to me. last night, rick klein from abc news and covered a story about the awards and grants to children of people who had died in iraq and afghanistan an...

Works. we need to fix the system to we can have all legal immigration and no illegal immigration. >> i want to talk about something harry reid said that created waves over the soldiers in nevada that he linked sequestration cuts. he disavowed that later but nevertheless he referred to their deaths and sequestration in the same remarks, to republicans have been saying the argument stands, it was an awful thing to say, lanny davis saying it was at clumsily worded. >> the democrats have to be caref...

Considered, i guess, the most dangerous, and then re-apprehended, and then they were released in the first place, we find out, because of approaching sequestration cuts that hadnt even gone into effect, then what would it take to release a bunch more, a bunch more often? >> thats the decision made by cabinet -- im not saying the president knew about it but he should know about. i knows everything im doing here as evidenced by his nomination of perez to be labor secretary, who has been going afte...