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Under employed and leaving people feeling hopeless about what's going on in washington. >> this is your president, your party. >> if he's failing and he's a democrat or a republican, we have to be honest. >> let's put up the seven most devastating economic predicti predictions. 91.8 million americans no longer in the workforce. number of jobless working age americans has risen 9.6 million people since january of 2009. 47.4 million americans we lie on food stamps. 10.98 million americans receive disability checks, one in three people fell into poverty between fwooin and 2011. 40% of americans s...

Taxpayers to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. dating back to 1988. >> this fraud not only forced federal taxpayers to finance the lifestyles of new york scammers, it took away from the already limited resources we have for people who actually suffer from psychiatric disabilities. >> reporter: authorities charged four masterminds with recruiting and coaching applicants on what to tell doctors, even duplicating forms, sometimes in the same handwriting. i am unable to perform any type of work activity in and out of the house, matches another form word for word. documents charged the a...

>> reporter: she is worried her disability checks will stop and so is this man. >> we don't need the bandage ripped off of our wounds. that's what this is, a bandage ripped off of our wounds. >> reporter: amidst all the last-minute scrambling, president obama in an interview with wabc said he doesn't know if he can negotiate with the speaker of the house john boehner anymore. >> there are situations where we have agreements, then he goes back, and it turns out he can't control his caucus. >> reporter: if a deal is struck, they are only talking a about a temporary fix, setting up another sky is...

>> it's no wonder veterans are worried. just last week v.a. secretary eric shinzeki warned as many as 8.3 million vets could go without disability checks if the shutdown goes much longer. at this moment 56 regional v.a. offices are closed. some 7,800 v.a. workers have been furloughed. those workers directly impact some 5.1 million veterans, military families and survivors who, again, rely on a range of v.a. services. one of the things i think that's important to note is unlike the most recent shutdown in '95 and '96 this one is happening during an act of wartime. some 60,000 americans are serv...

Why is that so important? just a few years ago, faulty products coming in from blood thinners from china sickened 800 people and killing 81. my drug inspectors want to be on the job ensuring the safety of the supply chain that when you take a drug, that that drug is safe to take and you won't die because your regulators are not on the job. open up the fda serving the nation and serving the world. this is what we want to be able to do. and then over there in woodlawn is the associate security administration and the medicare administration. though we are headquartered there, serving the nation, ...