republicans were fighting before ronald reagan was elected quite frankly. neil: they are gunning for rich guys like ari. what s interesting this whole battle, that will go a long way to evening things out in the unevenness in society, the dichotomy between the very rich and very poor will be addressed by forcibly sticking it to the rich. it s a popular theme. how do you think it s going to fare? democrats have a strictly had the advantage when it comes to sounding compassionate but when you look at their policies and particularly going back to the eight years of the obama era, poverty went up, food stamp spending went up. unemployment, despite coming down, did not benefit working blue-collar people because as i said earlier, wages were flat for ten years. the trump economy, what you have is tax cuts for job creators in the economy is revving to the point now where wage growth, salaries, hourly wages for middle income, lower income people, are going up far faster
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half, but john says, if you re streaming videos every month every at a discount you shouldn t be getting taxpayer assistance period. david: let s show how much we re spending on food stamps. it s gone up a now, now 71 billion. go ahead. let s be clear that the united states won the war on poverty long time ago with economic growth. the evidence supporting that claim is the fact that people risked their lives to get here every year in order to cure their poverty. it s the idea that we need more food stamp spending, people need to make better decisions. if amazon wants to offer up deals for people with less, that s a private decision. but i don t like the idea of government fighting poverty. you fight poverty with growth. david: and some say the trump plan cuts food stamps and other spending. the budget director has
the president today when he wanted these cuts. then on the food stamps issue, i m sorry, food stamps can be a loaded term. it s also something a lot of people use because they need assistance to feed their families. turns out, dick cheney having been a defense secretary, certainly knows this. turns out a lot of food stamps go to military families. i want to put up a defense department review that showed last year military families more reliant on food stamps in 2013 than any previous year. $100 million in food stamp spending in military grocery stores there. have been food stamp cuts as well. if you take his cheap attack at face value, it s wrong. number two, what s wrong with food stamps that are going to help people in need including our veterans and their families? there s nothing wrong with it. the other thing, nondefense discretionary spending has actually grown less under obama than defense has. i mean, people forget sequestration applies to everything else other than entitleme
senator rubio also hypocritically lashing out at the president today when he wanted these cuts. then on the food stamps issue, i m sorry, food stamps can be a loaded term. it s also something a lot of people use because they need assistance to feed their families. turns out, dick cheney having been a defense secretary, certainly knows this. turns out a lot of food stamps go to military families. i want to put up a defense department review that showed last year military families more reliant on food stamps in 2013 than any previous year. $100 million in food stamp spending in military grocery stores there. have been food stamp cuts as well. if you take his cheap attack at face value, it s wrong. number two, what s wrong with food stamps that are going to help people in need including our veterans and their families? there s nothing wrong with it. the other thing, nondefense discretionary spending has actually grown less under obama than defense has.