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>> i dont agree with that. ill tell you why. its easy to say warren buffett doesnt need medicare. once youre into that, your right wing republicans will do away with the universality of medicare and make it into a welfare program or voucherize. i think we do best when we progressively pay for these programs rather than have cuts in there for wealthier people. >> senator bernie sanders, you feel like a lot of people in this country are counting on you. this election was not about going after the ...

Once youre into that, your right wing republicans will do away with the universality of medicare and make it into a welfare program or voucherize. i think we do best when we progressively pay for these programs rather than have cuts in there for wealthier people. >> senator bernie sanders, you feel like a lot of people in this country are counting on you. this election was not about going after the big three. this was not about that anywhere in any democratic circles. it pains me to say it, but ...

President to put his political capital on the line and say, ill cut that, thats a very tiny sliver of the actual budget. all of the welfare program are like 10, 11% of the budget. so, really, if you want to name stuff you want to cut, theyre very small and wouldnt save a lot of money, and also things that would make you look terrible. but they want the president to use his political capital to say, ill cut home heating and meals on wheels. but they are the ones who want to do that. they should s...

Pain that republicans like lindsey graham went through with a slight cut in defense. if you get to the stuff they want to cut, that they want the president to put his political capital on the line and say, ill cut that, thats a very tiny sliver of the actual budget. all of the welfare program are like 10, 11% of the budget. so, really, if you want to name stuff you want to cut, theyre very small and wouldnt save a lot of money, and also things that would make you look terrible. but they want the...

>> thank you, andy. it is good to be here. >> have we gone from being the land of the tree to the land of the free stuff? >> i just think people are too polite to ask. nobody wants to say are you going to be on welfare? then you will be called racist. thats why nobody has asked. if you want to find out ask what their favorite tv shows are. if they mention a soap opera or "the price is right" that means they are at home and not working. >> the nonpartisan center says households were using one maj...

Unfortunely the administration is giving us a lot of opportunity to practice. >> you sometimes feel like you are having to engage the federal government in a battle to protect your ability to make decisions for the people of the common wealth of virginia? >> absolutely. that is absolutely a critical element. the health care case. we filed suit first in virge virge and it went through. it is two more years of rigamarole can and we lost that the law was left standing, but states got other options ...

This has nothing to do with skin color, just the voter i.d. card? >> this has to do with a philosophy. >> bob: i called this before. i probably shouldnt call him a token appointment. the guy is good and eloquent. but he stands for philosophy, a con seventive philosophy. we have dont agree. he doesnt believe in the government program we believe in. that is the distinction. we believe government can help people up. republicans believe its done by the free market. i dont believe it. >> andrea: he i...

That the payroll tax pace for social security. youre running large-debt deficits and theres knotting in these securities, theres no tax that pays for any particular program. the politics of the payroll tax is it helps to sustain the fiction that social security is like an insurance program or retirement program rather than what it is which is regular old welfare program but a welfare program for the middle class. >> fdrs idea was if you see if money coming from your paycheck youll invest it -- >...

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Latino vote went democrat is quote, they are used to a socialist form of government in mexico. which is big government, welfare programs, so thats who theyre going to vote for over the republicans. tim doesnt seem to realize a couple of things here. first, the united states has a much bigger big government welfare program that mexico could ever dream of and second, those people left mexico looking for a different kind of life than they could have in mexico. people who come to the united states a...