expanded wic. i don t think republicans made issue of wic. here is the issue. you keep want to grow it. you have want to grow it not to help people but as a form of economic stimulus, because you believe it will get the economy back on track. that is wrong. eric: let me bring it around. speaking of growing it. under president bush, dana, the average, full year averages, 23.6 million americans per year. at a cost of $28.1 billion on food stamps. referring to newt gingrich s comments. under president obama that number skyrocketed to 39.4 million americans at a cost of $65.7 billion. with the last year of record, approaching $76 billion. he is right. wow! it s exploded. dana: i think that you have to go back and look at the law and the formula under which you can apply and get food stamps. i don t think, i don t remember the bush administration changing that. maybe there was a change. i do remember that like the
went through? did you see the officers behind her screen shot? i would do the same thing. we need to privatize it. actually, you do. high five on that one. privatize what? t.s.a. security. we did that before. that s what happened. recent report $8 billion since 9/11 we spent on the scanners. obama s budget for 2011, $8.1 billion. but there has not been a plane brought down in the entire period. it s not fair to say that the t.s.a. employees want to touch someone s junk. they have been given a tough job. they are for our security. they deserve our support. they also deserve better leadership. they were patting down two 6-year-olds. i m just saying it s. they re scared. no one gets fired from the t.s.a. when is the last time you heard someone getting fired? what did they expect to find on the 6-year-old? i don t know but there are mothers who will do it.
went through? did you see the officers behind her screen shot? i would do the same thing. we need to privatize it. actually, you do. high five on that one. privatize what? t.s.a. security. we did that before. that s what happened. recent report $8 billion since 9/11 we spent on the scanners. obama s budget for 2011, $8.1 billion. but there has not been a plane brought down in the entire period. it s not fair to say that the t.s.a. employees want to touch someone s junk. they have been given a tough job. they are for our security. they deserve our support. they also deserve better leadership. they were patting down two 6-year-olds. i m just saying it s. they re scared. no one gets fired from the t.s.a. when is the last time you heard someone getting fired? what did they expect to find on the 6-year-old? i don t know but there are
there s some in congress who want to get rid of the department of education, they ll be voting that way. that s not the president s decision. his 2012 budget would, for example, keep pell grants where they are. $5,550 per student. he would have a nominal increase in the budget for head start to $8.1 billion. and then he s emphasizing his race to the top program, which in a nutshell essentially rewards innovation for school districts. but that s one philosophy. absolutely. and the president s race to the top, some of that money going into schools failing, trying to turn them around. we ve seen that work, in fact, in some places in florida. republicans emphasize different priorities, don t they? this is the party that has members who as you say want to eliminate the department of education. they want to shift education from being federal government funded and focused to local districts. for example, they want to reduce the pell grants that president wants to keep stable. they want
will not grow by one. the bill to give the district of columbia a voting member has been pulled. republicans insisted that in exchange, d.c. s ban on carrying a weapon be repealed. democrats refused so the bill was taken off the table. general motors on the road to recovery. well, g.m. reporting it repaid the $8.1 billion in loans that it got back from the u.s. and canada. the company announcing it is also investing more money into kansas and michigan plants, a move that they claim will save thousands of jobs. 14 factories and more than 65,000 jobs were shed when the automaker filed for bankruptcy protection last year. he is on the f.b.i. s 10 most wanted fugitive list for his role in numerous murders committed from the early 1970 s through the mid 1980 s. he s also wanted for other crimes but boston s most infamous gangster james whitey bulger still hasn t been caught. investigators believe he may be in canada. last week, officials visited bookstores there looking for the fugitive. bu