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Ran up a huge deficit. then under obama the republicans come back. they say, gee, we have a terrible deficit. we're going to have to cut social security, medicare, medicaid, education, environmental protection. the needs of the kids' nutrition programs because of this deficit. so if you are asking me, do i this i that same set of policies will play out? more money for defense, then rising deficits and then cutbacks on programs that middle class and working families need? absolutely, that is what will happen. >> what is going to happen to these veterans, now, senator, if they're not going to ge...

Hearing. >> right. and i mean, you remember during the campaign we had newt gingrich talking about this being the food stamp president. >> right. >> with all the kind of connotations that had. now we actually see some time later we actually are having policies that, you know, if this farm bill the republicans in the house have been working on, if they could convince the democrats in the senate to go along with it, would throw many, many more people off of food stamps and have already cut back in the women, infants and children nutrition programs, headstart, other programs. so it's no longer th...

Pushing on the food stamps and the nutrition programs. >> and that same team that is willing to shut down the government and that says the government is bad, and that is willing to take food off the tables of poor people are also, sometimes, the very same people getting these massive subsidies or big, crop insurance, that we see in the farm bill. why is it that food stamps are so easily politicized, but the farm part of the farm bill is still kind of off-limits? >> lobbying. >> i love the clear answers. >> i mean, this is -- you know, poor people don't have a lot of money for very expensive lo...

Any case. we want to deny 20 million what's the mood like for the democrats in the house today? americans access to health >> well, you know, reverend al, insurance that they desperately need. so we're going to whole the this send the kind of day we're entire government hostage, throw people out of work, deny services to tens of millions of doing high-fives. americans. should this have happened? as you reported earlier, the economy has lost about $24 of course it shouldn't. billion. furloughed workers who already the american people can now understand how dangerous this didn't get a wage incre...

Congress. i think that's likely if they do that. and this is to risk the economy, the well being of the united states of america in order to achieve a goal that should be done through regular order. we passed the bill. it was signed by the president. it was ratified by the supreme court as constitutional. this is not the way we decide things here. this is a very dangerous, dangerous strategy, when with the government shuts down, it is likely to do it, because my monday night, it's hard to see how it would continue going. we're going to see, oh, the fiscal times estimates about $150 million a d...