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>> in my view we should not raise taxes at all until we know where the money is going. without a budget or without a plan, we its difficult for me to ask my constituents to send more money to washington when they dont know where its going to be spent. >> greta: i come up to your office and come up to the topic on waste and fraud. i know you have been pursuing that, as well. is there any discussion, people changing entitlements and spending. i hear no discussion in digging into profound amount of...

>> in my view we should not raise taxes at all until we know where the money is going. without a budget or without a plan, we its difficult for me to ask my constituents to send more money to washington when they dont know where its going to be spent. >> greta: i come up to your office and come up to the topic on waste and fraud. i know you have been pursuing that, as well. is there any discussion, people changing entitlements and spending. i hear no discussion in digging into profound amount of...

>> i think there are a couple of these out there. two of these out there now are republican. that ad, which says theyre moving the jeep jobs to china and the ad that keeps saying the welfare program under this president has been weakened because they removed the work requirement, which is not true at all. they do that obviously to agitate white working voters. so thats what theyre trying to do by getting people angry at obama. i really do believe that the managers go to the candidates and say lo...

>> yes, you can parse those programs. what he is getting at, the essence of america is not getting money and spreading money around. it is the ability for people to develop their own talents and skills and get ahead. learn responsibility, learn from their mistakes like steve jobs did, and move ahead. thats what its about. not sitting back passively and waiting for a handout from government. bill: how are you going to change that so many people are getting a check from the government? >> most peo...

Sheen of 2 and a half men he replaced him as number one on the list. sheen led last year with 40 million but this year didnt even make the cut. still winning. >> a staggering new report. welfare programs are now the largest chunk of government spending topping a trillion dollars. here now to explain is fox business network diane macedo. >> a congressional research shows testing in welfare program at roughly $1.03 trillion that doesnt include social security and medicaid. they identified 83 ove...

200,000 for moms on it doesnt . whats funny is the old cash welfare program is much much smaller than the rest of the agency in the old days it was a big part of these. >> now medicaid and medicare are much bigger programs. do you ever think gee we are trying its hard to fire people. i cant manage the way i would if i were in the private sector that charity would do it better? >> no, i dont. i dont think charity by itself would provide public health insurance to the number of people we provide i...

Dependency. >> thats wrong because we have a work requirement in the welfare program. when welfare reform passed the welfare case load was 1.1 million now under mayor bloomberg its 360,000. we enforce the work requirement aggressively you put people to work in all kinds of work experience type activity. we have continued to do that. we do that for single individuals on food stamps as well. we have a work requirement and we stress it every day. in most audiences where i go around the city of new ...

Dispousing during the campaign. here was scared mitt romney again in florida trying to correct for insulting 47 of the american population and saying they are losers because they get government assistance. this was talking about his fathers use of government assistance. >> my dad was born in mexico of american parents living there at age five or six there was revolution and they came back to the united states. my dad has to get help. by the way, that is the way america works. >> and joy, there w...

Again in florida trying to correct for insulting 47 of the american population and saying they are losers because they get government assistance. this was talking about his fathers use of government assistance. >> my dad was born in mexico of american parents living there at age five or six there was revolution and they came back to the united states. my dad has to get help. by the way, that is the way america works. >> and joy, there was no welfare program at the time. there was no social secur...

Will be part of the stage. everybody finishing driving in their nails, except the democratic house minority leader, nancy pelosi, apparently having issues. so the republican house speaker john boehner came to help out and nailed it. take a look at the leaders face there. a few hours later, it was back to politics as usual. thats funny. and the mostly partisan vote in the house on welfare. house republicans passing a resolution disapproving of the obama administration move to offer more waivers i...