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More than $15 an hour. joining us now from washington is the author of that study, michael tanner. michael, welcome, it's good to have you on. i read your article. i was quite frankly not shocked in some respects, a little interested on the other hand. wondering, you know, how do we get out of this quite of quick sand mess we are in when it comes it to people who legitimately need some help but also incentivizing them to go out and get jobs. >> the big problem is simply that the welfare state has grown so big that there is very little accountability. most people when they think of welfare thin...

More than $15 an hour. joining us now from washington is the author of that study, michael tanner. michael, welcome, it's good to have you on. i read your article. i was quite frankly not shocked in some respects, a little interested on the other hand. wondering, you know, how do we get out of this quite of quick sand mess we are in when it comes it to people who legitimately need some help but also incentivizing them to go out and get jobs. >> the big problem is simply that the welfare state has grown so big that there is very little accountability. most people when they think of welfare thin...

A stunning new report showing that federal spending is just as rampant as ever with $95 billion being wasted on overlapping programs including not one, but three different government offices in charge of inspecting catfish. chief national correspondent jim angle is live in washington. jim, i hope you will not diss catfish? >> reporter: no, no. that is only the beginning of all the duplication, rick. fox has obtained the results of a new gao report that find 162 areas of duplication or wasteful spending adding almost 100 billion dollars a year. on top of a larger amount from two previous report...

Job training, six overlapping programs aimed at redesigning camouflage combat uniforms and three federal agencies tasked with the responsibility of inspecting catfish. an msnbc ad featuring weekend host melissa harris perry is attracting harsh criticism, still. she has an unusual argument for increasing government spending on education. >> we haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. part of it is we have to break through our private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. >> bret: reacti...

76 different programs that treat drug abuse spread across 15 different agencies for instance. that costs $4.5 billion a year. 47 programs for job training. three federal agencies as you said that inspect catfish. two parts of homeland security that let five separate contracts to detect the same chemical. six overlapping programs in defense aimed at increasing number of camouflage uniforms from two a few years ago to seven. renewable energy programs top them all with 679 overlapping programs. listen. >> nobody knows what's going on there. not the department of energy or all these other 13 agenc...