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Know, congressmen from the house of representatives. that originates in the fact that this is part of who we are. this is a systemic issue that we have. and if youre dealing with a situation in which portions of the electorate are isolated over here into a sort of homogeneous situation, folks will represent. >> how do you find against the racialization of the social safety net? you have this issue in which theres been so much rhetoric about what the people who are the beneficiaries of government...

Did reach out to senator paul, senator mcconnell, and to the republican congressmen who represent lexington, all of them declined to speak about it this week. i got to speak to matt beven who runs a small business and hes running for mitch mcconnells seat. >> those subsidies for three years are going to cover kentuckians three years and its being paid for by other taxpayers including those from kentucky. when the subsidies are gone, then it,s increased -- increase in tax. its a regressive tax on...

Principles is more important than keeping the government alive and running. >> absolutely, that gerrymandering is the heart of the problem but i dont think there is a strategy. i dont think they are thinking two steps ahead, if we do this were going to deal with this when we get to the default issue. part of the strategy, if there is one, the media is going to help them. you have made this point already, that false ee quifl lens is part of the problem when media talks about showdown, gridlock, m...

Cheerleader for this program except he sees the opportunity to kill it. >> on january 1 the exchanges kick in and the subsidies kick in. once those kick in, its going to prove almost impossible to undo obama care. the administrations plan is very simple, get everyone addicted to the sugar so that obama care remains a permanent feature of our society. >> well, you got to say there he made the best case for it. people are going to like it like they like the prescription drug deal that bush put in....

Hes fighting for the poor, working poor and the struggling people of america. his state there are 28% of the people who dont have health insurance. its the worst in the country. so i dont know that they think that hes fighting for them. >> david, how can you -- if i may ask this, take a position that its dangerous to talk? i mean you can talk and say look, this is not on the table. were not negotiating about this. but the absence of communication, anyone whos been in a negotiation knows that you...

For them. >> purely about midterm politics. how do you deal with something thats really tangible, the fiscal -- the votes to cut food stamps. how do we in the middle of an economy where the working poor are relying on food stamps as well as those who dont have jobs and middle class incomes are down, how do you take food off the table with people? >> it is unfathomable that yesterday the same republicans in the house voted to cut food stamps by $40 billion. these are obviously not people who have...

After they receive this benefit. this is essentially for the working poor. these people are not feckless free loaders. >> we hope they stay on the program but the u.s. department of agriculture said over 10% of the stores that take food stamps are engaged in waste, fraud and abuse, over 10%. we can give all of that benefit to the 95, 90, 95% of individuals and more money left over for the people that truly need it if you root out the waste, fraud and abuse that we know is true. we know every ame...

Environment where we can have jobs. i was at a conference last week for the working poor. progressive economists, concerned about the fed pulling back too soon. they said it would be people on the margins who would feel it first. the first beneficiaries, you could argue, wall street, the people making a lot of money. the first to get hurt, progressive economists say, the working people. >> while the stock market is soaring, the u.s. government is moving one day closer to a shutdown. the presiden...

Children and whose very daily nutrition lsh compromised when theyre thrown off this program? >> it wont be because they wont be thrown off this program. >> how will you discriminate? how will you discriminate? >> we root out waste, fraud and abuse. we empower states to. >> how do you decide someone is a fraudster? how do you decide that? >> this is simple law n baltimore just this week they indicted ten stores, $7 million of food stamp fraud in those ten stores, and we know there is a plain way ...

This recession has gone to the 1%. >> 90%. >> instead of critiquing. >> maria, let me also raise this. while were seeing this ugliness on the right, a new poll from gallop found that 20% of americans didnt have the enough money to buy food at some point in the last year. 20%. >> i mean, this is where we start talking about conservative compassionate conservatism. where has it gone? when you have your swagger because you decided to cut food stamps to children through head start, its not very toug...