there are other steps we can take to help families make ends meet. and few are more effective in reducing inequality and helping families pull themselves up through hard work than the earned income tax credit. right now, it helps about half of all parents at some point. think about that. it helps about half of all parents in america at some point in their lyes. but i agree with republicans like senator rubio that it doesn t do enough for single workers who don t have kids. so let s work together to strengthen the credit, reward work, help more americans get ahead. let s do more to help americans save for retirement. today most workers don t have a pinch. a social security check often isn t enough on its own. and while the stock market has doubled over the last five years, that doesn t help folks who don t have 401(k) s. that s why tomorrow i will direct the treasury to create a
it will give businesses customers with more money to spend. it does not involve any new bureaucratic program. so join the rest of the country. say yes. give america a raise. give them a raise. there are other steps we can take to help families make ends meet. and few are more effective in reducing inequality and helping families pull themselves up through hard work than the earned income tax credit. right now, it helps about half of all parents at some point. think about that. it helps about half of all parents in america at some point in their lyes. but i agree with republicans like senator rubio that it doesn t do enough for single workers who don t have kids. so let s work together to
control. and hopefully this will come to an end after the next election. we ll get some sensible government. after all, even john boehner is calling people ridiculous. it seems to you like in 2014 we might see a shift in house leadership? maybe the democrats running it possibly. but most importantly, this is a deal in which we re taking from poor children, 57,000 children out of head start. we re going to cut by a billion and a half dollars medical research that saves lyes. and we re going to add $20 billion to the pentagon, which as we all know is absolutely starved for money and can hardly put boots on soldiers feet. the pentagon was an interesting one here because on the one hand we are going to add back some of the money that was cut from the sequester. but then we have military veterans and federal workers who are saying what you re doing is cutting our one percentage point cost of living increase that came with the pensions and off
and pretends he led the parade. free markets save more lyes than government ever will. it makes everything cost more. adds red tape and legal work. it doesn t stop the scams. there will always be some despite the new rules crooks push the work at home scam. you have won a prize scam. i reported on those 40 years ago. regula regulators said they will fix that. i joined good morning america and i discovered there aren t that many big national scams. i found plenty of nast the things going on in portland, oregon and here in new york city. once i was on a national stage i found few large scale scams because of the free market the local cheaters didn t grow. the companies that got big and rich were the ones that served their customers pretty well. market competition police businesses rewarded good ones
the tax information on the red cross and we have reached out to them. we know they are needed for your area. this will be the last 36 hours for you because you are in the zone. our prayers go out to the people there tonight. i would ask what your shelter situation is like? do you feel like you have what you need in order to shelter everybody. if they were on and they were listening outside we had sirens going off thouey had plenty of time to get to shelter. if people lost lyes it wasn t because of the inability to