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>> i got aggravated and said im not doing the juice. why do the work if im not going to get what im supposed to get out of it. >> he packed up his things. the sergeant asked what he was doing. he said im leaving today one way or the other. the officer let it go. later in the day he was fine, but decided to make a comment, meaning that michelle needs to make a decision. she needs to i think he said, grow up and either move me to the work program or to the box. and i made the decision he went to s...

>> especially if -- >> shed been in trouble herself a long time ago. >> yes. >> so anyway, then we sort of fell in love and got married and here we are. >> i got married here december 9th of last year. in fact, we honeymooned in this very cottage here. this is only our third time were going to have a conjugal visit, so -- >> so its pretty cool. it makes time go by a lot easier. a lot easier. >> doing time in folsom affects the prisoners in two ways. physically they all make the adjustment to the...

You know, back in the 80s when reagan cut the tax obligation, cut the regulation, we didnt have this enormous, huge burden. we were creating 300, 400, 500,000 jobs a month. thats real growth. thats real opportunity for peoples lives. right now we have 47 million people on food stamps in this country. we are trying to at least go back to what bill clinton and newt gingrich did in having a work program. if youre able-bodied and you dont have children to have to take care of, you should be able to ...

Its america. no ones really hungry, a. b, we are just trying to make this program work better, be more efficient, and we are pushing work requirements, because thats -- we believe that people should work. we dont want the lazy, indolent folks laying around, living off government largess. what do you think? >> they should get out to the communities i represent. if they want to see people who are hungry, come to flint, come to saginaw. i talk to them every single day, number one. and secondly, the...

No ones really hungry, a. b, we are just trying to make this program work better, be more efficient, and we are pushing work requirements, because thats -- we believe that people should work. we dont want the lady, indolent folks laying around, living off government largess. what do you think? >> they should get out to the communities i represent. if they want to see people who are hungry, come to flint, come to saginaw. i talk to them every single day, number one. and secondly, they talk about ...

Because thats -- we believe that people should work. we dont want the lady, indolent folks laying around, living off government largess. what do you think? >> they should get out to the communities i represent. if they want to see people who are hungry, come to flint, come to saginaw. i talk to them every single day, number one. and secondly, they talk about a work program. if they were serious about wanting people to have an alternative to being poor and have a job, they would work to create jo...

>> shed been in trouble herself a long time ago. >> yes. >> so anyway, then we sort of fell in love and got married and here we are. >> i got married here december 9th of last year. in fact, we honeymooned in this very cottage here. this is only our third time were going to have a conjugal visit, so -- >> so its pretty cool. it makes time go by a lot easier. a lot easier. >> doing time in folsom affects the prisoners in two ways. physically they all make the adjustment to the rigors of prison li...

Not doing the juice. why do the work if im not going to get what im supposed to get out of it. >> he packed up his things. the sergeant asked what he was doing. he said im leaving today one way or the other. the officer let it go. later in the day he was fine, but decided to make a comment, meaning that michelle needs to make a decision. she needs to i think he said, grow up and either move me to the work program or to the box. and i made the decision he went to segregation last night. >> coming...

With under and unemployment, many cobbling part-time jobs? >> 80% of our phone calls have been against this immigration reform bill. i would say that people arent completely against doing something. theyre just against something that doesnt secure the border first. >> paul ryan on my radio show last week predicted that we would have, quote, a shortage of workers in the united states in coming years in that -- that that justifies bringing in millions of new workers into this country. senator, wit...

If you have a good robust work program you wont get people crossing the border illegally. they will come in legally do this work. i dont think this bill actually fixes that. i think theres some concern -- you know, i saw a statistic today that unemployment for those with a high school degree is only 24%. if you have a college degree, its about 4%. we do have a lot of blue collar workers we have to be concerned with. >> that leads me to my next question. why are you personally, senator, in favor ...