yeah, those greedy veterans, wanting all this special treatment. greedy veterans expecting everything to be handed to them. yeah, happy veterans day, senator demint. i would salute you, but the way i want you is not something that s allowed on television. it almost makes me want to sit on my hands. the veterans bill, aside from the blistering astonishment that is jim demint, is an example of things sort of secretly actually getting done in d.c. right now. here s another example. yesterday the fcc announced that the nation s biggest cable companies will start offering high-speed internet service to low-income families for the reduced price of $9.95 a month. any family that has a kid who qualifies for the free school lunch program will be eligible to get broadband internet service that they otherwise probably would not be able to afford. this is a real concrete step. it is connecting the poorest americans to the 21st century economic backbone of our country. so this week alone, veteran
is it that simple? it really is. in the case of the assurance wireless situation, they are not setting up people with bills. you are not going to receive a bill. you do not have to sign a credit check. this is all about prepaid type of service that is already being donated to you. you will not see a bill. the only thing you will have to pay for are any overages over your 200 minutes. if you go over the 2 p00 minute you pay ten cents a minute extra. you will know what that amount is going into it. all right. so it slounds like it really is free. how tough is it to qualify for this? yeah, that s a great question. so we re talking about folks that are on medicaid or you are receiving the free school lunch program or you are on public housing. but there also qualifies people that are in temporary assistance, needy families. there are a lot of different ways that you can qualify. my best suggestion would be to
so if the gop wants to shrink government while preserving entitlements for its base, they have to look at programs that aren t associated with that base like voting to slash food stamps by $40 billion over 10 years, embracing the sequester which cut money from government housing programs, now they re even railing against the free school lunch program. because republicans need to squeeze those programs so their base has as much money as it needs. joining me now, msnbc senior political analyst david axelrod, current director of the university of chicago politics. this hustle has been run since 2010 and it drives me nuts that no one seems to pick up on it. i imagine you and the people around you in the white house and in the democratic party over the last four years have been seeing exactly what they ve been doing? yeah, well, in fact, you know, mitt romney tried to run that at the president in 2012 and we were able to push back on
in defending medicare spending, republicans are just looking out for their base. the older whiter demographic who tend to come out to vote in nonpresidential elections. the people who do not want to give up their medicare thank you very much. so if the gop wants to shrink government while preserving entitlements for its base, they have to look at programs that aren t associated with that base like voting to slash food stamps by $40 billion over 10 years, embracing the sequester which cut money from government housing programs, now they re even railing against the free school lunch program. because republicans need to squeeze those programs so their base has as much money as it needs. joining me now, msnbc senior political analyst david axelrod, current director of the university of chicago politics. this hustle has been run since 2010 and it drives me nuts that no one seems to pick up on it. i imagine you and the people