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All over the country. >> all right. now, i suppose testimony that americans are sitting there watching this tonight say whoa im glad i dont live in maine where that is happening. is that all just state money or is there federal money in that which of course means the rest of us are helping to pay this. >> the money comes from the temporary assistance for needy families program which is funded mostly through a federal block grant. taxpayers across the country have been paying for this. >> its int...

>> there better be. they cancelled five and half million policies and managed to sign them up for medicaid which is different, that is not particularly good coverage but is a welfare program. and that is not the same for people on individual plans that cancelled medicare. and volume is not a problem for the administration on this. and they nuked all of those plans. and the problem is, can the people get on and sign up and will their data be secure. and will the right data to be to the correct pe...

Society, you dont think there was welfare program and toney, that create as culture of dependency that over 20 years created rot in a lot of americas inner cities? had the wrong incentives. >> there is a culture of dependency in this country and the culture dependency, in part, is it can be found like in lower income families and certain urban areas. the culture of dependency can be found in the family program, in the pay outs for big banks. i have always believed, long believed, written about i...

Transparent, that will be a sign things are better. i dont think thats going to happen. >> is the white house going to tough this out, march on, declir victory no matter what happened and just make sure that they can -- this will improve as it goes on? >> absolutely. i think that is indeed the plan to cram this down, push it through one way or another. until you get enough people on the subsidies, that will make it difficult to get them off. the problem with the strategy is a lot of people like ...

Mandela and the anc made a decision about is, remember, this transition to a democracy happened with access to the polls, not access to the purse. >> right. >> and it was access -- and i think part of the strategy certainly was get political control and then start to implement what nelson mandela called the edp, economic reforms. >> its been very hard to make that happen. >> well, what happened, one of the things we have to acknowledge is that the apartheid era debt that the anc inherited, was n...

Reforms. >> its been very hard to make that happen. >> well, what happened, one of the things we have to acknowledge is that the apartheid era debt that the anc inherited, was not forgiven. so essentially what started as a pretty broad welfare program to try to equalize society and create more access to opportunity, was undermined essentially by -- >> debt and austerity. >> quickly, ambassador, are you hopeful about south africas future? >> yes, i am. i think south africa is struggling with some...

640%. >> this didnt start with barack obama what you are talking about. welfare, the welfare program in this country was geared toward building incentives so that women would have more and more children out of wedlock because they would get more money. >> women have children just to get more money from the government? you are kidding me. >> bill: i have got to go. let me be clear because colmes thinks im suggesting. im not saying that the 1950s and 1960s are better than today im saying we are a ...

Off except for the irs. what the irs needs is to have an audit of its self. i am offended that the irs comes back at people like myself and my husband to get more money when millions of people are not paying. >> leslie, the irs isnt just a tax collection agency. that is the whole point. 1/3rd of the people are getting checks back from the government. it is dispenser of cash. it a welfare program right now. >> thank you, guys. we will do it again. i promise. >> honoring our heroes on this veteran...

Home and taking meager government handouts. they would much prefer to have jobs. economic growth is so easy and once we turn around the bad economic policies you will see a lot of these takers become producers and they will forget all of this. it is a moment in time. >> didnt john f. kennedy say the best welfare program is a job? am i wrong? >> john f. kennedy was somebody who unified the country and gave people hope. he wasnt somebody who pitted one class of people against another. >> we dont w...

Public. my caseworker told me did she ever ask if anybody came to my house to make sure they didnt pay what they were paying she wanted to go to lunch with her friend. >> one starving actress made this video. ♪ ♪ >> what we bleeped obviously was a word for sexual intercourse. the point is having more babies wins you benefits. >> you get pregnant you get a check. before welfare program you get pregnant at 14, 15, 16. not only do you get a check you get money to help you move from