Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111208:09:09:00
The program in 1995. the only money goes to the kids. if you have $1,000 at 2 bucks a book, you can pay for 500 books. whereas in the welfare state model if you have $1,000, you pay $850 of that for the bureaucracy. when "the wall street journal" looked into mr. gingrich's program that year in 1995, they found 90% of the money raised, 90% of the $20,000 raised in the past year, had gone to a man named mel steely and two other professors. mel steely was a former gingrich staffer who was at the time working on the authorized biography of the house speaker. so at least that guy was earning. tim m...