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Society. were talking $600 billion a year in these welfare programs and they think this is humor? this is something we should reward and intralt? we have reached a real new low. >> mike: you spent a lot of your adult life fighting against not only the stereotype but in your own life the struggle that you came through to be today leading an organization to help empower people to be on their own. >> thats right. i actually live the lie of the left. seven years in and out oof welfare dependency. i ...

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But the new york city subway used to have posters written in spanish advertising a gay, lesbian domestic violence hot line. thats how fine grained it get in new york new york city on the subway pushing welfare programs. it informs and pushes them. >> but getting back to the poverty program and theyre pushing food stamps and welfare programs and they have a tendency to keep poor people poor. once you are on the dole it is hard tore get off. >> it is. incentives are wrong. they encourage people to...

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Senate budget committee, more than 100 million americans are currently receiving some kind of federal welfare and that doesnt count social security or medicare, which are really not welfare programs because we, the people, have paid directly into them. medical assistance, medicaid, the most used welfare program. in the year 2000, 34 million americans were on medicaid. thought number is 54 million. food stamps second. in 2000, 17 million of us received food stamps. today that number is an astrono...

Senate budget committee, more than 100 million americans are currently receiving some kind of federal welfare and that doesnt count social security or medicare, which are really not welfare programs because we, the people, have paid directly into them. medical assistance, medicaid, the most used welfare program. in the year 2000, 34 million americans were on medicaid. thought number is 54 million. food stamps second. in 2000, 17 million of us received food stamps. today that number is an astrono...

Welfare as well as free public education. this means that those illegal immigrants pose a very strong cost on u.s. taxpayers, as well as taking away 426 million jobs from americans who need jobs. shannon: in this letter, inton say that going through the paperwork, two of 80 welfare programs are factored in. when they are asked about are you on this kind of assistance or help. is that legal? we have laws that state something otherwise should be done when they are screening people? >> the general ...

Get a waiver to do so. but the obama administration is offering waivers to say if you want to experiment with your welfare program to try some new state approach to get more people in the work force, you can go for it. you can apply for a waver to do that. and this again was requested of the administration by republican governors. and back when mitt romney was a republican governor in 2005, he made the same request of the federal government. that states be given waivers to experiment with their ...

Best. do you do anything? >> we get savings from food stamps $133 billion. food stamps have quadrupled over 10 years, thats more than enough to make up for the recession because states were incentivized under the stimulus package to sign people up continuously and never checking whether they should go off of it or not. so we want to black-rent -- what? >> bloc grant this in the states and give them more accountability so they are not incentivized to continually send people more for food stamps. ...