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Majority of people on food stamps dont need it. i think the majority of able-bodied adults between 18 and 50 years old, they dont need it. i am all for work-fare. bill clinton and newt gingrich on the right track. the governor in maine on the right track. i dont think entitlements do any good. you cant have more than three months of food stamp assistance in three years. i think thats a good plan. >> bill: in maine. able-bodied adults. not children. >> you cant minimize the impact of drug abuse. ...

This is one of the reasons why. >> but there has been a lot of abuse, a lot of people taking advantage of these programs. that is a problem here. who are these people, joe? >> were talking about 1% of snap program lost through fraud with the latest report. shes right. there is a lot of good happening from the program. the problem is when house republicans in 2014 proposed modest cuts, they got castigated by democratic colleagues in calling us heartless, saying were kicking people to the and that...

People with disabilities and children. >> what changes would you make if any, to the snap program? what would you do to enhance it? >> i would increase coordination between snap and other federally funded programs. i would say every working poor family thats eligible for an earned income tax credit as you apply for that credit you automatically get snap benefits and i would dramatically reduce the bureaucracy. instead of putting that money into the tax credits for the rich, i would give that to ...

Million people plus that you mentioned, reverend away from health care and then not have any other supportive services for them when they dont have health care like having proper nutritional diet because the s.n.a.p. program has continued to be sliced apart, millions of americans, most of them elderly and children will continue to suffer. this is crazy. >> thats who benefits from these programs. i mean this is crazy, congressman. lets talk about the plan to gut food stamps. it would cut roughly ...

Who decide to participate in this primary runoff election, we werent just talking a good game. we can deliver for you maybe on the voting rights act and maybe on something like the snap program. these are all parts of the record that cochran has wrapped up in the senate. it is something i think is reasonable to expect him to try to do again especially given the way the election just played out. >> part of the story the politics, a lot of republicans used to support it. to find the ones who will ...

On something like the snap program. these are all parts of the record that cochran has wrapped up in the senate. it is something i think is reasonable to expect him to try to do again especially given the way the election just played out. >> part of the story the politics, a lot of republicans used to support it. to find the ones who will say that now is a different story. well take a look and see what happens. when we return when we finish with how political tribalism is threatening our system ...

That money out. >> and they keep doing it. you say there have been some successes. you like the g.i. bill. you like the interstate highway system when we started building the big roads that connected us together. you liked welfare reform. but there are so many things going on right now where it is kind of like were throwing good money after bad. >> yes. the expansion of money continues at pace. this is true in republican administrations as well as democrat administrations. the problems i identif...

Through this drug testing. >> this isnt about drug policy or consistency on libertarianism. it is about going after poor people and theres under current of race in this. they may never use a term related to race but they are sending a message to their base, oh, my goodness, look at these horrible, evil people sucking away our tax dollars and doing things like taking drugs when the fact of the matter is two-thirds of the people on the snap program are children, senior citizens and people with dis...

Winter in my of the major cities and see men and women standing out in horrible weather catching buses to go to work. when you talk about the cutting the food stamps or the s.n.a.p. program, it is cutting benefits from the disabled, women and children, and most of the people who receive s.n.a.p. go to work everyday, but they earn minimum wage, and if you earn minimum wage, you are going to be making $15,000 a year, and in this country, $15,000 a year will put you in poverty. >> congressman cleav...

Budget which is always a danger because theres so many pieces that can be pointed to and try to win the bigger argument for savings and spending, but your opponent comes back and said, well you cut this, and that matters to people. your thoughts? >> look, chris, it ends up being a classic battle between the shock the conscious sound bite and the sudy of substance, often the sound bite will win, especially if youre scaring people. if youre on medicare, youre going to cut medicare, your grandson p...