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Byby loans to minorities. >> we are going adrift. lets get back to ashton. thats the important thing. now, this country would be much stronger if all of us were like me. painted houses and drove a cab and did whatever i had to do tod get through boston university. started in scranton, pennsylvania w and worked my wa up. if everybodydy would do that weh wouldnt need the welfare programs, wouldnt need all of this stuff, right? >> there are two different things we are talking about. >> talk aboutut...

>> im sorry, it was not caused byby loans to minorities. >> we are going adrift. lets get back to ashton. thats the important thing. now, this country would be much stronger if all of us were like me. painted houses and drove a cab and did whatever i had to do tod get through boston university. started in scranton, pennsylvania w and worked my wa up. if everybodydy would do that weh wouldnt need the welfare programs, wouldnt need all of this stuff, right? >> there are two different things we are...

Byby loans to minorities. >> we are going adrift. lets get back to ashton. thats the important thing. now, this country would be much stronger if all of us were like me. painted houses and drove a cab and did whatever i had to do tod get through boston university. started in scranton, pennsylvania w and worked my wa up. if everybodydy would do that weh wouldnt need the welfare programs, wouldnt need all of this stuff, right? >> there are two different things we are talking about. >> talk aboutut...

Once a much larger agreement and a much larger bipartisan agreement about how unemployment payments function especially in a recession. automatic stabilizers was the accepted term for what they are. an unemomental term but both sides saw it that way for a long time. >> unemployment insurance was always considered separate from other welfare programs. so food stamps or cash payments, tanif as we know it now. and now they have been lumped together. even though people have lost their jobs through n...

What happened to their unemployment rate? what happened to their job growth? well, the fact is a lot of people dont show up as unemployed anymore, basically dropped out of the labor force. their unemployment rate, if you include the people that left the labor force, went dramatically up. their job growth is way below average for the country. so the fact is that, you know, getting people off of the unemployment benefits is is not going to get them employed. it may just get people to give up. >> b...

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All right. if everybody would do that, we wouldnt need all of these welfare programs. we wouldnt need all of this stuff. right? >> there is two different things we are talking about. >> no, no. talk about what my question is. >> i worked at wendys when i was in high school. >> good. >> i worked my way up. i temped when i graduated from college because there werent a lot of jobs. i was always working. i agree thats a really important thing. i dont think it has anything to do with the government t...

For more, lets bring in congressman jim mcdermott of washington. congressman, good to have you with us tonight. i was captivated a little over a week ago in your house hearing about all of the states that have decided not to set up an exchange and all of the residents across america in these states who are being deprived of an opportunity to get coverage. congressman, good to have you with us tonight. >> its good to be here, ed. >> you know, we played some of the clips. its a war. the conservati...

Just feeding off the system. >> the vast majority of illegal aliens are consuming welfare programs. >> we have illegals coming here taking jobs. we have people at home that need these jobs. >> but are businesses really ready to get rid of such cheap, dependable labor? how many jobs are these immigrants taking away jobs from americans? it may be a policy debate in washington, but in the orange groves of polk county, florida, its back breaking labor and the looming threat of deportation. >> this i...

>> the vast majority of illegal aliens are consuming welfare programs. >> we have illegals coming here taking jobs. we have people at home that need these jobs. >> but are businesses ready to get rid of such cheap, dependable labor? how many jobs are they taking away from americans? it may be a policy debate in washington, but in the orange groves of polk county, florida, its back breaking labor and the looming threat of deportation. >> this is the hardest ive ever worked for 93 cents. ♪ flo...