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Programs. not just food stamps. if you add up all of the poverty programs excluding social security. it comes up to $22000 for every poor person in america. why not just get rid of the bureaucracy and cut them a check. >> we could have a great idea and debate. going back to food stamps and the idea of government promoting that. we have a farm bill that proposes four billion in cuts to the food stamp and the agricultural committee chair woman said they would be more open to cutting back more. >> rich, i see all of the advertising of the government to put people on food stamps and 15 million mor...

I watched as it created a poverty industry lots of victims and bureaucrats who specialized in sucking money out of washington, d.c. over the years most poor people stayed poor. they are still poor. how can that be when we spent so much on poverty programs. >> this year we will spend $1 trillion and over the next decade welfare spending will top $10 trillion. >> that video was made by the republican study committee a group of congressmen worried about governments sending the committee chairman is congressman jim jordan. you want to cut poor people off? >> we want to help them get to a better li...

Jobs and they don't have an income and cost of living in many cases continue to rise over the period, david. and so the poverty rate is the worst in the depths was a recession. the poverty rate declines >> we all agree. >> we all agree on that. we have spent a lot on anti-poverty and we have cut poverty programs, except maybe the of the most recent. and (talking all at once.) >> they are supporting the reagan economic policiless as a way to get the economy going. we heard him say that. >> i am not supporting reagan economics. >> we hear it. >> you are saying that the economy did better and t...

The poor to prosperity. they can't. in 1965, the poverty rate in this country stood at 14%. now, after untold trillions have been spent fighting poverty, the poverty rate is 14.3%. amazing, is it not? the conclusion, america is bankrupting itself with an entitlement philosophy that does little. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight, according to a consulting firm mackenzie and company, 20% of american men ages 25 to 64 are currently not working. that's up 13 points since 1970. if the study is true, that's obviously a massive problem. here now to analyze our barack and hard place d...