collected more than 30,000 signatures. each on petitions to secede. alabama, florida, louisiana, florida, texas leads the pack with more than 115,000 signatures by itself to, quote, peacefully grant the state of texas to withdraw from the united states of america and create its own new government. as the washington post dana milbank put it in a recent column f obama were serious about being a good steward of the nation s finances, he would let them go. did you hear that? because many of those states are what dana milbank said are government takers, they take more in federal money than they pay in taxes. alabama gets $1.71 from the federal government for every $1 paid in taxes. louisiana gets $1.45 in federal aid for every $1 they pay in taxes. author of bush s brain, and james braxton peterson associate professor of english at lehigh, and michael steele, former chair of the rnc and a political analyst here at msnbc.
pay in taxes. alabama gets $1.71 from the federal government for every $1 paid in taxes. louisiana gets $1.45 in federal aid for every $1 they pay in taxes. author of bush s brain, and james braxton peterson associate professor of english at lehigh, and michael steele, former chair of the rnc and a political analyst here at msnbc. gentlemen, this is an extraordinary thing but let s talk about this, professor peterson, recent daily b.a.s.e. article you talked about using maps in 1859 to america today where states are petitioning to seceed following obama s election. you write they were pro-slavery or open to slavery. this same collective of states were required to be racially segregated. it so happens these are the
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should get food assistance and we outright been a it in this bill. we outright been a a number of areas where there has been waste, fraud and abuse. some supporters argue it s form of economic stimulus. it s a good invest in the the economy. for every dollar you put in food stamps you get $1.71 back in the economy. if that is so why don t we provide everybody s clothes, shoes? sessions dismisses that notion saying the original cost has to come from somewhere. when you take money from the economy, or borrow it as we are doing today to provide food stamps for everybody you don t get a net gain to the economy. most agree on helping the needy in a crisis but the democratic budget would continue to spend almost $850 billion a year for the next ten years. long after the economy is supposed to be in much better shape. chris? chris: thanks. leon panetta thanked the gay and lesbian military service
before. it s not time to take food away from hungry families. you know, the average assistance that a person receives from food stamps is incredibly small. i mean, people act like people are getting rich off it. you re talking about $130 monthly benefit. $1.50 a meal. if you cut that little amount, you re talking about crippling people. and senator jeff sessions actually mocked your effort to save cuts from food stamps. listen. senator opposes to increase food stamp spending even more than the current growth that we ve seen explaining quote, food stamps are an extraordinary investment because every dollar that you put into the food stamp program, you get out $1.71. under this reasoning we ought to increase the food stamp program ten times. why not? why don t we just pay for your