barge, but they also cut off nearly two-thirds of the fresh water flowing into the bay. florida bay as we knew it essentially died. we had huge seagrass die off, huge algae blooms, mangrove die off and that s what got everybody s attention. most of the spooners were wiped out. population that went from five pairs to 1200 is now less than 70. here s what their eggs look like. do you still the argument from big farmers that, come on, you re talking about a goofy looking pink bird. we re feeding millions of people with our products. let it go. the one thing i can say back to them is so are we. look, it s a funny pink bird, but that spoonbill is telling me whether this fishery will be healthy or not. and this fishery being healthy is what pays the bills in south florida. i like to eat as much as the next guy. we need those farms. if we didn t have the farms it
we are up $30 billion from four years earlier. stuart varney joins us with some perspective on this. this is not the kind of record we want to be setting. reporter: there are two views of what s going on. one side says we are a compassionate society. in hard times we feed the hung fly and these are hard times and we are feeding millions of people who are hungry. the other side of the fence says we have become an entitlement society. cradle to grave we give you everything you could possibly need. we create independence, we cannot afford it and we cannot back off. once you have those programs in place you can t get rid of them. particularly troubling is the escalation and rapidy with which we adopted so many people on the