people. i ve been getting calls. these are nontraditional people who are calling, elected officials, education officials, people who live in the community say they have melted into our community. we ve accepted them. the children go to our school. we don t have a problem. why is the trump administration doing this at this time? i don t have answers other than it s indicative of their insensitivity to latinos in this country. the food stamp issue that you talked about earlier. again, you re picking on people who have come seeking a better way of life. and if food stamps is a bridge to that better way of life, why wouldn t you want to be part of helping people get to the
against? sure, i think that s absolutely right. look, if you work 40 hours a week, you ought to be able to make enough to take care of your family. that s the way that you can reward work, and you can honor work. the reality today is that that minimum wage has lost a lot of its purchasing power and continues to lose purchasing power every single year that we delay getting it raised. folks will lose another percent, almost 2% of their earning and purchasing power by congress not being able to raise the minimum wage this year if they don t get it done. so at the end of the day, i think you have to understand people are working hard, they re playing by the rules, they re doing what they re supposed to do, and the reality is that we ought to reward work and honor work by making sure that folks who do work are able to earn enough to take care of their families. absolutely. you do have an ideological opposition both on the food stamp issue and on minimum wage. i have to play you this sou
everybody to dislike. what do supporters say on this food stamp issue, this loophole. as part of the negotiations, they cut food stamp spending by $8 billion by tweaking the eligibility requirements. a leading democrat a little while ago argued for the food stamp spending. i wish they would meet some of these folks who use food stamps to get by, to survive. these people are our neighbors. they are hardworking people who lost their jobs or got sick. they are seniors living on a limited, fixed in come. supporters say the bill cut $16 overall over the course of the legislation. they note a rare bipartisan accomplishment, if you will, in this congress. gretchen. rare it is. that vote 25 minutes there now. thanks very much, mike. thank you, gretchen. another fox alert, dow recovering slightly today after a humongous drop yesterday. it s fallen 7% since the start
worth of lifetime benefits. he approved virtually every claim that came before him. this matters financially because in the last 3 1/2 years we have signed up an extra 3 1/2 million people for disability, about a million a year. the fear is, martha, that disability, legitimate program, is being gamed. that it is no longer a social security disability fund that is paying to people who really can not work but it is paying out to people who can not find a job and they are gaming the system. big deal. martha: obviously that s the problem with every entitlement that has been created. when it starts to run into this kind of fraud and abuse and we hear a lot about cracking down on it. we almost never see it. that is why we see numbers increasing so dramatically. remind you when you see numbers on disability on the food stamp issue as well. yes. bill: there is a huge rise of number of people tapping into the program during the obama administration, that is a fact right?
three swords this the meet the press interview. one is the food stamp issue, went nuts over. two the embrace of romney care and third of course the ryan issue. i think gingrich had a pretty good argument to be made about the arguments of medicare and ration it, but lost in the media. judy, what about pleading the fifth. anything i ve said can t be used against me. peggy noonen wrote in a column this week, maybe young people would find newt refreshing because they ve never seen him before. thises a guy we haven t seen before either. not quite the old newt. one has to wonder. well, cal, to be fair to the media, it wasn t just the media that came down on newt. a lot of his fell no conservatives did as well. yes, he did. he spent 30 minutes on rush