the power of the name your price tool. only from progressive. shepard: a former united states marine who spent five years serving our country may have to spend the next five months sitting on the sidelines during the college football season. and is he not happy. he wants to play at middle tennessee state university but the ncaa tells him he have to sit out for the season. it turns out some recreational games he played during his time in the military may violate eligibility rules coinciding with organized football activity. he is now appealing the decision. i never played anything other than high school ball and interthat mural and basically recreational football i played for the marine corps. i couldn t believe they were going to pentagon ize me. i hope the appeals process goes through. steve is a great man. what he has done for our country the last five years and all he wants to do is finish school. get his education now and play ball. shepard: hard to argue with that a spo
we even know that the best are not blameless. they re not pure good. but if you ask me, a more complicated story is ultimately a better one. pure good versus pure evil, kind of boring. the action of real life may be harder as a plot to follow, but we can still do it. we can untangle the plot lines and tell you who the villains are. and rest assured, there are still bad guys in politics. many of them are in the house of representatives. look at the farm bill. the house s version included severe cuts to s.n.a.p., the food stamp program. $21 billion cut over the next ten years. close to 2 million people could lose benefits. 200,000 children could lose free school lunches tied to s.n.a.p. eligible. 850,000 households could see reduced benefits. there are provisions to drug test recipients, to prohibit the usda from advertising s.n.a.p. in any way, to change eligibility rules, to bring back
of life and i will always err on the side of life as a governor and president of the united states. brett: i have another question for you, texas has the most uninsured residents of any state in the country, 25%. in the last debate you blamed it on restrictions imposed by the federal government, but we checked about that, sir. in fact, the feds treat texas like they do all the other big states. on its own, texas has imposed some of the toughest eligibility rules for medicaid. in fact you rank 49 in this medicaid coverage of low income residents. isn t the uninsured problem because of decisions made by texans? i disagree with your analysis because we ve had a request in to the federal government so we can 6 a medicaid waiver for
of life and i will always err on the side of life as a governor and president of the united states. brett: i have another question for you, texas has the most uninsured residents of any state in the country, 25%. in the last debate you blamed it on restrictions imposed by the federal government, but we checked about that, sir. in fact, the feds treat texas like they do all the other big states. on its own, texas has imposed some of the toughest eligibility rules for medicaid. in fact you rank 49 in this medicaid coverage of low income residents. isn t the uninsured problem because of decisions made by texans? i disagree with your analysis because we ve had a request in to the federal government so we can 6 a medicaid waiver for
last fall. martha: all right. let s take a look at tahrir square, where we are looking at the latest scenes as people are filing into that square, which has been the scene of the thousands of protestors who have been pushing for change, as they get there today to continue this mission. now, what s going on in egypt right now is that the embattled president, hosni mubarek, is setting up a committee to discuss and recommend constitutional changes and those kind of reforms are some of the things these people have been protesting for. it was relaxed eligibility rules for people who can run for president, limit the number of presidential terms, which is a big step for a man who s been in power for now 30 years, or nearly 30 years. so we will see if the people of cairo and the people of egypt start to get enough satisfaction on some of these moves to help them feel convinced that change is actually coming. we re going to continue to watch that very closely. bill: nine minutes past the hour n