your shoes, pay for your housing. self reliance, if no one will work, neither should he eat. really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. supplemental nutritional assistance program. buy beer program with the government credit card. but the witness today made it very clear there s not a lady bone in her body. and how they are doing all they can and still can t make ends meet with three children with disabilities. she is working a part-time job. her husband is working at a part-time job. and they make about together $300, about $320 after taxes. now, that a $1200 a month. there isn t any place in the united states you could live on $1200 a month in any kind of style at all. without the snap, without the food stamp program they would
complacency. supplemental, nutrition program, the buy beer program with the government credit card. why don t we pay for your clothes? your shoes? your housing? a lot of people are lazy and becoming lazier. people aren t poor because of lack of effort. we sure see a lack of understanding from the right. joining me now, jared bernstein and angela rod. thanks for being here. thank you. how could anybody think it s easy to be poor? it s ironic. they have been calling hillary clinton out of touch all week. it s not just one bad comment. it s a series of bad policy reck are men days agos and ideas from the party. they had a growth and opportunity report last year. the one thing they have failed to address not only in the report but anything happening since that report is opportunity. the reason why people are poor, rev, is for a lack of
of the country. take a listen to this. supplemental nutritional assistance program. the buy beer program with a government credit card. studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare. and from the amount of obesity in this country by people we re told do not have enough to eat. why don t we just pay for your clothes? pay for your shoes? pay for your housing? i mean, i ve got to go, congressman. but what makes the rich so deserving of these tax cuts and the poor not deserving of any help? they ve served the country. when we pray this evening, we should pray for our republican colleagues that they would have more spirit to help their fellow man. and we should be thankful to give in a country where inch can now have affordable health care. congressman chaka fattah, michelle cottle, thank you both for your time this evening. thank you. coming up, dick cheney
program. buy beer program. studies show people on welfare are higher users of drugs that people not on welfare. it s offensive. it is not true but republicans are still trying to put that into law. in georgia the state s republican governor is expected to sign a bill allowing state workers to drug test food stamp recipients. the bill requires, quote, reasonable suspicion before the drug test can be ordered. what is reasonable suspicion? being poor? black? single mom? adding insult to injury this bill would force some poor people to pay for drug tests, $17 a piece. we saw this experiment before in florida and it failed miserably. just 2.6% of people signing up for welfare in florida failed the drug test. it is actually lower than the