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Than a job that pays $69,000 a year. why? cost of entitlements. joining us now from our new york studio, fox business anchor lou dobbs. so, lou, explain this, please. >> well, bill, first, i think we need to give great credit to the department of public welfare in pennsylvania. they're being honest and straight forward and i wish the federal government, as you do, would listen. think about the benefits received by this woman. $25,000 in a take home salary of $57,000, you add to that all of the expenses that we go through, whether it's child care, whether it is transportation. in the instance, ...

York studio fox business anchor lou dobbs. so, lou, explain, this please. >> well, bill, first i think we have got to give great credit as you mention to the department of public welfare in pennsylvania they are being honest and straightforward and i wish the federal government as i know you do would listen. think about these benefits being received by this woman. 25,000 in a take home salary of $57,000. you add to that all of the expenses that we go through whether it's child care, whether it is transportation. in the instance one parent and two children in pennsylvania, food stamps amounts t...

Wedding anniversary. [ applause ] i remember when we got married, we were both, as i remember, making $16,500 a year. living in a house that cost $20,500, had 1,100 square feet, no air conditioning, $174 a month mortgage. i paid 20% down on it, i think, maybe a little more. but my life has been graced by the american dream. only two governors of small states have ever been elected president. the other was franklin pierce, the governor of new hampshire in 1852.

Pick up those signals to the edge of the earth. our final destination. >> way up on that plateau. that's still 7,000 feet above where we are. >> 16,500 feet. with what's up here, it's the closest you can get to outer space without a rocket ship. >> what is it like to finally be here? >> it's freaking awesome. this is the state of the art observatory in the world. this is the largest, most sophisticated ground base observatory that the world has ever created. it will blow everything else out of the water. it could take weeks or months of observing to do what we'll do in a day or an hour. it's r...

Ever before. but before we can look around, there is the matter of blood pressure and blood oxygen level tests. we're at 10,000 feet here, and we'll soon be ascending to 16,500 feet. altitude sickness can kill you of the the good ne. the good news? we checked out okay. this is an observatory the highest ever built. made of state of the art radio telescopes which are built in europe, japan and north america and then shipped here to be reassembled. >> they literally are rotating around. >> 15,000 pounds a dish. >> and here's what they do, spaces filled with something we cannot see. radio waves, ...