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So we took a look at the financing structure which is driving our national debt higher in straining state budgets. governors like mitch daniels of indiana, governors of both parties from around the country are asking for more flexibility wpt to the medicaid program. we give it to them. our approach is to end the onerous one size fits all approach to medicaid financing. instead, we convert all federal spending into block grants and into allotments to each of the respective states. we give governo...

Bureaucrats that run it they could direct payment to the states. theres so much cost sending the money up here. we had a highway bill but why send it up here and send i back and pay all the bureaucrats. department of education, the same thing. get rid of the bureaucrats. if you collected the money and have it, send it back and let the states run it. you could do something differently. >> congressman, im going to hit the big red "x" on that one. ive been a governor. we ran a medicaid system and d...

Now president obama is talking about raising the payroll tax higher than it used to be in order to help shore-up unemployment benefit funds. vicki you y it is a bad idea, why? >> lets be clear. hes saying we are going to tax more salaries, more of your salary than we do now. which will hit some and not others. this is amazing. hes saying, look weve got these unemployment rolls weve got to cover. we are going to punish people who have jobs and make them pay higher taxes. this does not make sense....

Rhetoric. >> are you for reparations? >> i think reparations are just like these welfare program that is turned a generation into nothing but unproductive people -- >> then you are part of the problem. >> if you design fine x@

You engage in your hateful rhetoric. >> are you for reparations? >> i think reparations are just like these welfare program that is turned a generation into nothing but unproductive people -- >> then you are part of the problem. >> if you design fine -- define am. host: could switching to geico really save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance? host: was abe lincoln honest? mary todd: does this dress make my backside look big?

You engage in your hateful rhetoric. >> are you for reparations? >> i think reparations are just like these welfare program that is turned a generation into nothing but unproductive people -- >> then you are part of the problem. >> if you design fine

Need to stop this d-reform of the welfare programs in this country because not many americans were aware, but congress over the last year or so has been -- they have set up a new welfare program that doesnt have the work requirement attached to it. again, while youve got americans facing tough times right now, it is not i think very american for us to say, we need just increased welfare because i dont think that americans are not compassionate -- >> what do you mean by welfare? because thats a b...

53% disapprove? >> 53% disapprove, 39% approve. >> 39% approve. give or take three or four percentage points, the headline, regardless, is it not correct, not a bounce from health care. >> gallup, by the way, is unchanged, 45% support, 49% oppose. i think on health care, the big story, to me, has been consistently, no matter what the numbers are on the impact on the country overall, they have never been able to get a majority of americans to say, it will benefit me and my family. particularly wh...

Jon: obviously, you were part of americas successful moon program, apollo, back in the 60s and 70s, part of that apollo 13 crew that had that enormous problem in space and was able to the overcome it and get back to earth safely. you know the feeling among some americans. weve been there to the moon, been there, done that. maybe, they say, this is a program that could go by the boards. >> well, i dont think they understand the real value of the, of the program and the sort of the other aspects. ...

To listen. just a few people who represent florida. these people should be listening to these people. welcome to the program, guys. i want to cover these questions with you. just an open forum and just raise your hand and lets go to it. theres the questions, wasnt to start first, how do you feel this week? you, im not talking about your neighbors. how do you feel, anybody? yes, sir? >> we have a trillion dollar government run, i say welfare program on top of trillions of debt. where does it all ...