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Struggling trying to make it, chris. i live in a neighborhood where i see people trying to make it every day. they are the ones where a lot of them are taking the early bus. they never had the opportunity to get medicaid in our state. when you say that you will take over $800 billion for medicaid and say that it will not touch anybody or it will not hurt -- i just disagree. obviously, we come to a point in our country, chris, where people like mulvaney, i think, have an empathy deficit. i know what he said. let's get them off and they can fend for themselves. a lot of people can't fend for the...

American narratives about who poor people are and the fact that there are these -- there are these people who simply deserve to be in circumstances of want. and that we don't have a responsibility to them, because we're the strivers. >> that's right, that's right. this goes back further than what i'm going to mention, but the welfare queen debates in the '80s. the conversation about who's bringing down the capitalist order or the economy is always an overweight black woman holding a couple of hot dogs, you know, having more children, because her benefits increased. it just was not true. just f...

Obama as a candidate initially wrote about and talked about, this idea of an empathy deficit. our idea to have sympathy for people. but our inability to see one another across difference and be able to say, you and i are really the same. i can understand your struggles, they are like my struggles. >> that's some of the challenge for american indians, because they often are not viewed is, except as relics or mascots, and as a result, they suffer from the lowest standard of living, the lowest -- highest mortality rates in the country, the highest unemployment. and some of the ten poorest countri...

Will be the vision for our america? will it be seniors who won't be able to get medical care? children like the ones i just saw at howard university who had to leave school with 3.5 averages because they don't have money to go to school? is it closing head start centers? what price do we pay? i hope the president keeps in mind something he said over and over again. he said this country lacks an empathy deficit. i'm here to tell you, i, along with many other democrats am going to remind the president and the republicans we cannot have a strong country unless we give strong support to seniors an...

Problem isn't that the american people aren't productive enough. you've been working harder than ever. >> i'm afraid he doesn't understand what the word productivity means. gosh, this is quite a revelation if you have the president of the united states that doesn't understand that productivity is a measure of output per person in the nation as a whole. it is not a measure of how hard people are working. >> i don't know if this is a preview of what kind of debates we'll see between these two men. i believe it was chuck todd who noted some of the business language that peppered into romney's res...