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And what makes matters worse, an amendment to stop lawmakers from receiving farm subsidies was voted down yesterday. that's in addition to defeating an amendment to stop crop insurance subsidies for those who make more than $250,000 a year. it wasn't enough that republicans wanted to cut $20 billion from food stamps, but they stomped all over any opportunity to stop this cash give away to people who don't need it, including themselves. this bill aimed to almost take food out of the mouths of hungry people in order to give money to members of congress with farms. this was essentially robin hood...

Billion more. and his supposedly deficit conscious colleagues came rushing to his side to switch their votes and. support the bill once $30 billion was added to the price tag. this is the party that won't stop talking about debt and deficit. this is the party that would have you believe their number one concern is we're spending our children into oblivion. quite the opposite. they are being persuaded to support reform now that republicans have tacked on tens of billions of dollars in additional spending to the bill. and this is the way to understand everything that's happening with republicans...

What the net migration between mexico and the united states currently is? it is zero. zero. the most recent numbers show that from 2005 to 2010 the net migration is zero. a huge change from 195 to 2000 it was more than 2 million people. but the number of people coming here from mexico was about the same as the number of people going to mexico from the u.s. so we're already spending almost $18 billion a year on a problem that does not exist. and republicans in the senate are poised to add $30 billion to that all over a handshake deal to win votes. and remember, these are the exact same people w...

Farm subsidy payments last year alone. and what makes matters worse, an amendment to stop lawmakers from receiving farm subsidies was voted down yesterday. that's in addition to defeating an amendment to stop crop insurance subsidies for those who make more than $250,000 a year. it wasn't enough that republicans wanted to cut $20 billion from food stamps, but they stomped all over any opportunity to stop this cash give away to people who don't need it, including themselves. this bill aimed to almost take food out of the mouths of hungry people in order to give money to members of congress with...

Shoveling money. >> that's exactly -- >> until it fills up and they can walk across it it. >> it is the definition of throwing money at a problem. what the money is, it isn't real money in many ways. but the money is a symbol that we hear you and we care as much about security and your fears of this infiltration and invasion as much as you do. >> the money is tangible. this is the key to the corker amendment. the two things that are kind of on the table, cornyn, which was the conservative amendment, was trying to set very, very high benchmarks for how much operational control and situational a...