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Howard fineman and chris sill lizza is here. howard, lets take a look at this. in florida, the quinnipiac poll, the 51 to 43, now back in april of this year, he was 44 to 52 disapproval. what is going on in that state? >> well, i think what is going on there, chris, and what is going on in a lot of other places, is that republican governors elected as reformers are running up against the fact that their states have one out of money. the stimulus money disappeared. state budgets are hemorrhaging....

Was right she was original and where she was original she was seldom right. >> paul: how is this different from what some on the religion right do to democratic politicians when say a catholic like nancy pelosi, pro choice on abortion and violate the teachings of church. >> one, teaching on abortion is more clear. >> paul: catholic church teaching. >> catholic church teaching on abortion. the a lot of times were criticizing an actual policy. this is to say that your motivations are evil and your...

>> and bill buckley, where she was right she was original and where she was original she was seldom right. >> paul: how is this different from what some on the religion right do to democratic politicians when say a catholic like nancy pelosi, pro choice on abortion and violate the teachings of church. >> one, teaching on abortion is more clear. >> paul: catholic church teaching. >> catholic church teaching on abortion. the a lot of times were criticizing an actual policy. this is to say that you...

Billion dollar program gary b points out. the question, are the economic policies that obama has instituted working, stimulus didnt work. 7 trillion dollars of various forms of of financial stimulus into the economy, all its doing is buying more and more time for people to stay on entitlement programs. thats the part you need to fix. >> jonas, both sides of the aisle passed this budget and they cut this aamericorps budget by 6% or something. and its still just a drop in the deficit. >> i dont kn...

People on welfare, more people needing medicaid, and as she points out in the 80s with the huge epidemic of aids. >> this is exactly the kind of solution, though that was put in place under president clinton and a republican congress in the 90s for the welfare program. block granting it to the states provides the states much greater flexibility, they can increase the kind of coverage they want should they so desire. it gives them the flexibility to be able to put a program in place that allows f...

Giant welfare program for the rich and the powerful. and the banks are on the top of that list. this particular trick to help their wealthy donors is the republican con job of the day. now, when we come back, republicans are refusing to budge despite the fact that most americans want them to. are they overreaching? well, theyve done it before. well show you exactly when they did it and how it hurt them. did you know prilosec otc can stop frequent heartburn before it begins? heartburn happens w...

The big targets of course of this budget are medicare and medicaid. the republicans want vouchers for medicare and block grants for medicaid. they want to throw seniors into the private insurance industry like raw meat and they call that premium support? no, no. that would be premium destruction. and guess what? another wall street rip off. and they want medicaid to be classified as a welfare program, even though almost 90% of medicaid beneficiaries are children. the elderly and the disabled. mo...

The big targets of course of this budget are medicare and medicaid. the republicans want vouchers for medicare and block grants for medicaid. they want to throw seniors into the private insurance industry like raw meat and they call that premium support? no, no. that would be premium destruction. and guess what? another wall street rip off. and they want medicaid to be classified as a welfare program, even though almost 90% of medicaid beneficiaries are children. the elderly and the disabled. mo...

Finally, we recognize that the best welfare program is ultimately a job. so we reformed our job training programs. we consolidated the current complex maze of dozens of federal job training programs into a single program. a program that we can hold accountable. its a targeted scholarship program that is going to truly prepare our workers for a 21st century globally competitive economy. these are bold program, bold reforms but reasonable reforms to sort of things many of us campaigned on before w...

Heard firsthand from people who were concerned that these cuts were affecting the poor and the elderly. >> whats going to affect the poor and elderly the most is the fact this economy is not creating jobs. we got to get the economy moving again. the best welfare program is a job and thats what our new budget tries to do is hold back the line on taxes and turn entrepreneurs loose in america. i have conducted 36 town halls and across the board folks recognize washington keeps ignoring their defici...