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Incarceration rates. >> right now the number of americans dependent on food stamps is skyrocketing. in 2013, a record 20% of households were on food stamps. congressman, is the increase in food stamps because we have identified people with greater need who are sort of left out who needed the help, or is it because we have suddenly just, you know, gone haywire in terms of deciding how to sort of improve the economy for everybody and to lift people up? >> well, i think that we have to stop saying that the president's economic policies are failing and we start looking at really what the trend is,...

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Would have been extremely devastating. can you imagine in the early '80s with the aids epidemic if there was a cap on medicaid. that would have been devastating. people would have literally died. >> so, to the -- >> a couple points -- >> i was going to say, you're a physician as well. but to the concept of taking the medicaid, you know, the medicaid money and making it a block grant to the state , it is a total cap. irrespective of whether or not you go into a recession and more people are thrown into the poverty roles, how do you justify that as the approach? >> well, because, that's the only...

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