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Budget, you know, governing. so congressman paul ryan's house gop federal plan to cut spending by $5.1 trillion by 2024 by cutting essential programs came really not exactly as a surprise this week but the key numbers this week that could change the game for those in the 99% is 5 and 4. that is, 5 to 4 because that was how the supreme court voted in mrk c mccutchen versus the fec. but hold up. if you think that the 1% will be the ones benefitting from this ruling, i hate to break it to you, because it's actually the .1%. and even the .01% who are leaving all the rest of us in the dust. while t...

Branded with a hand stamp that says "lunch" or "money." and you know what happens? the other kids in the school see that. now, what's uplifting about that? just down the road here in fergus falls, minnesota, i have heard stories of schoolteachers using money from their own pocketbook to pay for the children's lunches to spare them the humiliation from the other kids to so they don't get that stamp on their hand. we're not a third-world country yet, but we're trying to get there. this is what happens when you cut essential programs like s.n.a.p. to the total of $8 billion and you give subsidies...

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Doing an inept job of defending what they say are essential programs. what is behind it? >> i think president obama may agree, to abuse these powers. he is not willing to go out there, we need to do this. it's very telling with the vote last week on amash with the nsa. it doesn't say anything until the night before, bedtime for us, when the press secretary of the white house please don't defund nsa because we need this. they haven't said anything about this. >> paul: it's been a debacle and jeopardizing these surveillance programs, anti-terror programs. we need more from the president of the u...

From the administration and they're doing a really inept job of defending what they say are essential programs. >> what's behind it? >> i think president obama might secretly agree with -- even though he's used these powers throughout the last four years to keep this country safe, he's not willing to go out there and say, we need to do this. i mean, it's very telling with that vote last week on amash's amendment to defund the nsa, that the white house didn't say anything till the night before, after bedtime for us, when the press secretary of the white house in a statement said, please don't v...