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really direct his or her anger. you can warn people what the republicans will really do if they real will clench power, how they're hell bent on cutting entitlements. that's their term for it. yours might be social security and medicare, because those benefits of yours under social security and medicare make up 7 in $10 of entitlements. republicans are dying to get at those entitlement programs. if you're retired or headed toward it, that republican goal of cutting them is definitely worth voting against. something else to fear the republicans get the upper hand, women's health care,...

Generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work. and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with. >> well, the reaction from many was swift and sharp. today ryan told nbc news the "today" program that "i was inarticulate about the point i was trying to make. i was not implicating the culture of one community but society as a whoel." ryan proposed cutting $3.3 trillion from low-income programs. last year roughly 2/3 of his entire $5 trillion in budget cuts. cut ks came from medicaid, low-income housing. anyway, ryan would sp...

kill it, and you can get your head chopped off exactly the way alex sink got her removed talking that way two nights ago in florida. or you can give the angry voter out there something really scary to vote against, a direction to really direct his or her anger. you can warn people what the republicans will really do if they real will clench power, how they're hell bent on cutting entitlements. that's their term for it. yours might be social security and medicare, because those benefits of yours under social security and medicare make up 7 in $10 of entitlements. republicans are dying...

and on the ground, the situation remained extremely tense as russian forces continue to occupy ukrainian military installations and maintain their black cade of ukrainian military ships in crimea. in the eastern part of the country, meanwhile, scuffles broke out between pro-russian demonstrators and those who support a united ukraine. back in the united states, conservatives had a message of their own -- as complicated and worrying as the situation in ukraine may be, it is also a perfect justification for everything they already believed. >> this is a symptom of a greater problem. it...

Explain why up to a million americans should be kept from having a job. how does that, bob, relate to what we see from companies like the gap? obviously they are not announcing a higher wage and a bunch of firings. they are saying, and i should mention, the gap, of course, is located -- headquartered out of san francisco where there is already over a $10 min mimum wa, but they have stores around the country. >> these companies will not go out of business if the minimum wage is modestly raised. i think the focus on potential job losses is a misplaced focus in any event. it seems to me in the fi...