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Much thereby ensuring their permanent support. do you see a difference between the french socialist strategy and what the democratic party wants in the u.s.a.? i don't. it's just a matter of percentage points. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight, reaction from two democrats. joining us from los angeles, leslie marshall and from washington kirsten powers both are fox news analysts. we are becoming an entitlement state are we not. >> we are not becoming entitlement state we have been an entitlement state for a long time. the question is whether or not you think that's a good thing...

Are astronomical. put up a chart so everyone can seat dollar numbers under president obama from 2008 onward. it's just a straight graph up. and the numbers are staggering. when you have, leslie, a third the population, a little bit over 300 million people in this country, a third the population receiving some kind of government assistance, do you think that's a god thing? do you think that makes a -- good thing? do you think that makes a strong country? >> absolutely not. i agree with christian. this is not the fault of the president. this is not something that's happened overnight or past thr...

Are astronomical. put up a chart so everyone can seat dollar numbers under president obama from 2008 onward. it's just a straight graph up. and the numbers are staggering. when you have, leslie, a third the population, a little bit over 300 million people in this country, a third the population receiving some kind of government assistance, do you think that's a god thing? do you think that makes a -- good thing? do you think that makes a strong country? >> absolutely not. i agree with christian. this is not the fault of the president. this is not something that's happened overnight or past thr...

Much thereby ensuring their permanent support. do you see a difference between the french socialist strategy and what the democratic party wants in the u.s.a.? i don't. it's just a matter of percentage points. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight, reaction from two democrats. joining us from los angeles, leslie marshall and from washington kirsten powers both are fox news analysts. we are becoming an entitlement state are we not. >> we are not becoming entitlement state we have been an entitlement state for a long time. the question is whether or not you think that's a good thing...

Martha: that's right, rick. stuart varney joins us from the fox business network. stuart, explain these numbers for us. >> the raw dollar numbers lay out the level of wealth destruction. if you go back to 2007, add up what the median family was worth in dollar terms. the number is 126,000 bucks. fast forward just three years to 2010, and that number was all the way down to $77,000. that is the median family's net worth. that is the destruction of wealth on a scale we've never seen before. it takes us all the way back to the levels of 1992 median family wealth. and it means that an entire gener...