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Wrecking ball for the disabled and very poor in this country. medicaid, romney wants to kill it by taking it over to the states in the form of a block grant program. do you trust your republican state legislature to take care of medicaid? he also is going after housing and heating subsidies for the poor. food stamps and school lunches. theyve always been a big problem. supplemental security income for the poor seniors in our society and disabled people. unemployment insurance. lets not forget ve...

It by taking it over to the states in the form of a block grant program. do you trust your republican state legislature to take care of medicaid? he also is going after housing and heating subsidies for the poor. food stamps and school lunches. theyve always been a big problem. supplemental security income for the poor seniors in our society and disabled people. unemployment insurance. lets not forget veterans pensions. i thought hay loved the vets and refundable tax credits to the working poor....

That real needs to be addressed to be made affordable. >> also youll address education starting on the early side. >> sure. >> the average poor child enters into elementary school knowing something like 2,000 words less. having a vocabulary that begins as an obstacle right at the beginning of schooling. >> what is the disconnect between the republican electorate and the republican electorate officials? we do see support for programs such as s.n.a.p. in the general elech trin and particularly rep...

Everyone grows with miracle-gro. as you know, my dad born in mexico, poor, didnt get a college y.3degree. became head of a car company. i could have stayed in detroit like him. i went off on my own. i didnt inherent money from my parents. what i have, i earned. i worked hard, the american way. >> thats mitt romney in a public primary debate in detroit asserting his ownç kind of, if not rags to riches sort of median riches to ultra riches story, and i think its very interesting the way that ...

So we are talking about -- half of them, i believe, are employed. this has become a way to essentially supplement the insufficient wages of people that are the working poor, and its also been one of the most effective ways of mitigating poverty here in the great recession. this is a charlotchart that sho during -- among children. check this out. the top like -- do we have it? maybe not. good. the top line, what the growth, the number of extremely poor families would have been without foot stamps...

People get back into the labor market. theres a broader issue i think about the way we think about incomeç support for people at e bottom of the social hierarchy and economic pyramid. weve moved towards programs, the way tanf works and s.n.a.p., ways to essentially subsidize the working poor so that they can have essentially enough to just barely get by while working, and it strikes me as, that thats a sort of distopeic vision of the future in which people have, theres a huge class of people w...

And bridges and airports and know when their school budgets are cut, they know that. see it in fewer sports teams, teachers cut. courses taken out of the curriculum. theyre very aware there are benefits they get from government and also very aware of this imbalance and plans the republicans and conservatives are putting forward, why you want to make these cuts in order to finance tax cuts for people already very well off. this isnt about promoting income distribution, about preventing further re...

>> it does and it doesnt. a lot of americans understand in their guts that there are things government does that they support and are happy about. people know we need better roads and bridges and airports. they know that when their school budgets are cut, boy, do they know that. teachers cut, courses taken out of the curriculum, so they are very aware that there are benefits they get from government. they are also very aware of this imbalance in these plans that the republicans and conservatives...

Control the politics as well. >> i think when youre looking at 72% of the american people want something and the congress doesnt deliver, what does that tell you? >> that tells you that our republican friends are in the pocket of big money interests and they understand, by the way, this should also concern us that with citizens united supreme court decision, these billionaires are pumping huge amounts of money into the political process so they can become even wealthier. >> senator, republicans ...

Republican friends are in the pocket of big money interests and they understand, by the way, this should also concern us that with citizens united supreme court decision, these billionaires are pumping huge amounts of money into the political process so they can become even wealthier. >> republicans love to talk about the percentage of americans who pay no federal income taxes. what they want to do is take blood out of a rock the what they want to do. they want the working poor to ante up. whats...