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Anything to help it but getting people on to these roles in recent years. this is a program that has nearly quadrupled in size since the beginning of the bush administration and tripled in how many recipients. not doing what it set out to accomplish. >> martha: doesnt make any sense. during that period, the obama administration, president obama talked a lot about how the economy was recovering. it was growing. and, yet, more and more people were being added to this program, richard, in terms of ...

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>> when you go into office, you take an oath to serve and protect. that means all the american people. yes, we need to look at the tax code and revisions. you cant cherry pick and benefit one group. where is the money coming from? right now, it is a trillion-dollar question. if you cut the tax rates for that 1%, for corporate america, which im not demonizing that, but where is that money going to come from? are you taking it from the core values that i spoke about earlier? what is important to a...

This cuts the minority business development agency and cuts the program to ensure that kids and mothers and families can stay warm. there are cuts to wic and snap programs. that is a fact. cuts to department of justice programs that we know, love, and care about. there is an increase in funding and earmark of $2.6 billion. guess who is paying for the border wall. mexico is not paying for it. he lied. its me and you and your cousin too. >> thats it for us. see you back here tomorrow night. thanks...

>> well, we certainly have to have this conversation by looking at the facts. the facts are that 45% of the recipients of snap programs are under the age of 18. 9% of them are over the age of 60. this is a program that keeps young people and elderly people out of poverty. this is also a program that, of course, as we look at any government program, theres going to be fraud. how do we correct the problem without the throwing the baby out with the bath water. this lifts families on the brink of po...

Christmas is not about happy holidays, merry christmas, the color santa and jesus is but what is going on in america with children that literally are being kicked off head start, theyre hungry because of cuts in s.n.a.p. programs. 1.3 million -- you know the numbers. that is the war on christmas that we should be talking about because that feels like a true sort of contradiction of what the american values are supposed to be, right? >> right. this new budget deal, three days after christmas, 1.3...

As i said, also call my show and talk about being in line at the grocery store, watching some of the the items that people that are on these snap programs, that they are buying. theyre buying irresponsibly and at the expense of the taxpayer. our fundamental is, you know, dont believe in the nanny state or the government trying to tell you how to make those decisions. if obesity is a problem in america, and it is, it should be up to individuals and not up to government and secondly, taxpayers sho...

Paying citizens that we can afford. whats interesting, though, is theres an item in "the daily caller" today, the web site, that talks about how apparently the usda that now runs food stamps which are called the snap program, apparently theyre trying to ease the restrictions, make it easier for people to get and you dont necessarily have to prove financial necessity. >> and real quickly, thats starting right from universities all the way through, you know, whether you can pay your mortgage or no...

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