that s a defining issue of american politics today. that s why the way issues of poverty are covered is so important. we also hear this ugly rhetoric from right wing lawmakers. scott walker in 2008 using the term poverty pimps to describe government assistance. listen. i think for too long and i will say this as a fairly agrez aggressive term but i think there are too many poverty pimps, government officials who rely on poverty as a means of political ceil, community based organizations who rely on their existence by perpetuating the cycle of dependcy. do republicans in 2016 risk the same backlash if they use this kind of ugly language victoria? regrettably i don t think this is going to be the last of
because they re getting 35% of their gas from russia. they don t want to rock the boat with the sanctions. now putin has said he s not spoking to obama. where is canada in terms of the foreign policy that is being called failed in the u.s.? canada is working closely with the united states on the ukraine. we have a third largest population is ukrainian in canada. we are working closely with the white house and the pentagon and the president on the ukraine. we obviously believe the bigger vision in north america of having energy independence inr leverage with russia and it s good for less dependcy on venezuela and on the middle east. some of the people that don t like the united states are supplying oil to the united stat
back to being plain old welfare. newt gingrich defends that ad but makes an admission whether that ad is strictly speaking true to the facts. but first, i want to show you how mitt romney is campaign on the claims knead that very ad. 7 with a careful executive action, he removed the requirement for work from welfare. it is wrong to make any change that would make america more of a nation of government dependcy. we nus restore, and i will restore work into welfare. now, listening to that, you would think the white house with the sweep of the pen somehow managed to undo all of your elected representatives, democrats and republicans accomplished on welfare reform. you get the impression the obama administration wants an america where hardworking americans pay taxes and lazy onescy sit around collecting welfare. and in case you missed the implications, newt gingrich spelled it out. i think on the hard left there s an unending desire to create a dependent america. not just
about my concern for the dependcy in this country and concern for people not being more dependent on government whatever their race or ethnicity is. rick santorum monday suggesting the problem may have been a lack of context. to help you decide whether or not he was implying african-americans are being supported by everyone else, we found a longer version of his remarks. listen. just keeps expanding. i was in enola a few months ago. and a woman told me that state of eye sigh going to get fined if they don t sign up more people under the medicaid program. they re pushing harder and harder to get more and more of you dependent upon them so they can get your vote. that s the bottom line. i don t want to make black people s lives better by giving them somebody else s money. i want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money. well, seems clear the subject is welfare dependcy. now he said after explaining his remarks as if they were racial
doinlt want anybody. if you look at what i ve been saying, i ve been pretty clear about my concern for the dependcy in this country and concern for people not being more dependent on government whatever their race or ethnicity is. rick santorum monday suggesting the problem may have been a lack of context. to help you decide whether or not he was implying african-americans are being supported by everyone else, we found a longer version of his remarks. listen. just keeps expanding. i was in enola a few months ago. and a woman told me that state of eye sigh going to get fined if they don t sign up more people under the medicaid program. they re pushing harder and harder to get more and more of you dependent upon them so they can get your vote. that s the bottom line. i don t want to make black people s lives better by giving them somebody else s money. i want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money. well, seems clear the subject is welfare dependcy.