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75 billion dollars right now -- >> laura: 72. >> anthony: i don't see statehood. i don't see congress or senate ever, ever taking on a 72 billion dollar debt load. >> laura: exactly. >> anthony: especially for a lot of people who speak spanish. what's the way out of this? >> hermes: oh my god. [ laughter ] >> anthony: what about tourism? >> hermes: it's an industry of services to service the wealthy. and at the same time you take 450 million out of the university for example so you're going to have less educated people willing to do any type of work to survive. >> laura: you are not really pro...

>> anthony: you don't really have much voice in your own destiny. >> laura: exactly you can only go to war. that's the only thing you can do with rights. >> anthony: puerto rico owes 75 billion dollars right now -- >> laura: 72. >> anthony: i don't see statehood. i don't see congress or senate ever, ever taking on a 72 billion dollar debt load. >> laura: exactly. >> anthony: especially for a lot of people who speak spanish. what's the way out of this? >> hermes: oh my god. [ laughter ] >> anthony: what about tourism? >> hermes: it's an industry of services to service the wealthy. and at the sa...

>> laura: not anything -- >> anthony: you don't really have much voice in your own destiny. >> laura: exactly you can only go to war. that's the only thing you can do with rights. >> anthony: puerto rico owes 75 billion dollars right now -- >> laura: 72. >> anthony: i don't see statehood. i don't see congress or senate ever, ever taking on a 72 billion dollar debt load. >> laura: exactly. >> anthony: especially for a lot of people who speak spanish. what's the way out of this? >> hermes: oh my god. [ laughter ] >> anthony: what about tourism? >> hermes: it's an industry of services to service ...

Program just two years ago was a 40 billion dollars program and it's now a 72 billion dollar program. why? because we keep force feeding it and make it so easy not for people that don't need food stamp. it's basically free money and what we've seen with unemployment benefits when you give more free stuff to people, it causes them to remain on unemployment longer, you withdraw it, some of this, put it to charities, give it to the state and local government and you find that a lot of the food stamps needs would go down and so would our deficit. >> brenda: malia, it's tough out there. a lot of pe...

As if poor people are just lining up to get on food stamps and i want to invite any one of you to come to the communities that i work in and to see what working class people have to do. you want to know why there's an increase, unfortunately, more working americans have lost jobs and i love the fact that america is willing to help people get food. i mean, are we really called food free money? i think all americans should be able to eat. >> brenda: you know, and those people who do need help, we, you know, they're in our hearts and our prayers, but, eric, the question is, is this creating a cul...