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Waivers throughout his presidency on the snap program,s why i believe you see him asking for the waiver of the work requirement again under welfare. >>neil: you could twist this around and i understand where you are coming from, but democrats will seize on your remarks today. others on the heels of mitt romney's 47 percent remarks saying, see, the republicans have a dismissful view of the needy. how without answer that? >>guest: that is not true. we have a bill we will vote on this afternoon that is a bill to overturn the administration's move to lift the waiver requirement if work. we do not ...

46 million in june alone. peter doocy on that live from washington. how much money does each of the 46 million get per month, good morning? >> reporter: good morning bill. $133 each month on average. break down the numbers on foot stamps known officially as snap, supplemental nutrition assistance program, you see why this is such a huge campaign issue. because the june 2012 low income people on the snap program, 46.7 million is much larger. 14 million than the larger 32 million or so folks on the program when president obama took office. a romney campaign spokesman, e-mailed me this morning th...

>> it's not prohibited, it's not allowed and somebody makes it up in this case an agency. so much wasten abuse and how are people getting food stamps, we have he been reporting on the show and we've talked about this, more than 46 million people in the program, costs about 80 billion dollars a year, but so much fraud. 460 million dollars worth of that going to households above the limit. so, you have to prove the snap limit in your home, you have to make a certain amount if you have a couple or living alone and prove to the federal government that you make this amount of money to get on the sn...

Have in the snap program and those benefits, 4 to 6 million dollars should go to people who need it if they need it. someone is losing if there's fraud. it's not a lot, but 40 to 60 million dollars. >> clayton: as a tea party guy, you're not against people getting food stamps, there's the fraud and waste. >> fraud, waste and inefficiency. this should be a system there for people to get temporary, the program, help americans below the poverty line in need, whatever the case may be, lost a job in this terrible economy, but when you have a system that's fraudulent on both sides and those who acce...

Government and frankly, i think this program is a disgrace and i don't think we ought to be promoting more welfare, if people are making it on their own, leave them alone, don't try to make them welfare recipients. >> and you'll sure you feel like i do, if somebody's hungry and don't have anything to eat, they need help. and that's what snap, used to be known as the food stamp program, is all about. and we've done stories in the the last month or two, how this snap program has become essentially a gigantic entitlement, it's questionable whether or not everybody on it really should be getting i...