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Revenue by raising the amount the federal employees contribute to their pension. the washington area democrats don't like it. >> i have concern about using the federal workforce. >> with the payroll adding to the deficit, fiscal hawk balk at $560 billion transportation and energy bill even though it included provision to speed up construction of keystone pipeline. they were forced to delay action on the bill until the end of the month. some conservatives are worried about cost related to the bill. it's also more challenging to round up support. >> it our leadership desire to have a ban on earm...

Medicare. defense spending a lot of it is unaccountable. some of it goes into pet projects, what you might call pork, alternative energy. our government spends, spends, spends. bill: and keeps on going. let me give our viewers a sense, put this on the screen. this is some of the annual spending you'll get every year. this is 770 billion on social security. medicare is 560 billion. medicaid $262 billion, and then you've got other manned stor manned story spendinmandatory spending. defense spending $680 billion. that cannot be sustained. >> reporter: we are spending a trillion dollars a year to ...

In 2010, 560 billion dollars, 16% of the entire federal budget was spent trying to help the poor. that's up an astounding 5,400% since 1970. but here's the stat that may provide some perspective on poverty. according to the department of health and human services, about 9% of americans have some kind of substance dependence, most of those people cannot earn a living. so let's do the math. 15% poor. 9% addicted. maybe poverty is not exclusively an economic problem. joining us now from los angeles are tavis smiley and professor cornell west who teaches at princeton university. so professor, deal...

In 2010, 560 billion dollars, 16% of the entire federal budget was spent trying to help the poor. that's up an astounding 5,400% since 1970. but here's the stat that may provide some perspective on poverty. according to the department of health and human services, about 9% of americans have some kind of substance dependence, most of those people cannot earn a living. so let's do the math. 15% poor. 9% addicted. maybe poverty is not exclusively an economic problem. joining us now from los angeles are tavis smiley and professor cornell west who teaches at princeton university. so professor, deal...

Far, he says, there has been no response, somewhere in the neighborhood $560 billion what is we are hearing so far. we'll send it over to rick for more. rick: from libya to syria where anger and resentment seem to be growing on both sides of the violent protests there. this is amateur video as hundreds of demonstrators flood the streets, just hours after a speech by the syrian president, bashar assad and the speech was yesterday and instead of announcing reforms, a lot of people expected him to do, and hoping that he would, assad blamed the protests on conspirators, leland vittert is following...