get in office. i don t think that same barrier exists in the republican party. they are happy when they come across an ambitious black politician to promote them for state office. yeah, i think that is right. johnathan, one other thing to you, they had a poll asking why do black voters most consistently support black democrats? and the answer was i don t know, and the answer was from the republicans was that black voters were seeking a government handout. and that is why they supported the democratic party. i mean, how can minorities ever feel really at home in a party that views them that way? exactly, that gets to what i was trying to say in response to in response to i have actually heard from this in the hall from a republican from texas, who doesn t agree with me on anything but listens to what i had to say.
unemployed help obama? well, if you are out of work. you might start thinking, you know what? i m going to need government handouts. if there aren t any jobs, i m going to need government handouts. er who is the guy passing them out now obama. i throw that out there as a think piece. doesn t that boil down to the question we are all asking how many people have been converted to permanent takers and how many people aren t? it is interesting. although the other side of that is well, would you want a job rather than the government handout? it depends. that s a good question. i think what rush is saying that s the divide here. the folks that are out of work. you have those that are actively seeking jobs without government assistance and then you have those who are relying on the government. either meaning they are not seeking jobs just live on unemployment or actively looking but also using their unemployment. food stamps, social security disability
base package is $400. that s great. and parking if you bring a tank to drive the tank? which i did. i drove the tank here to the studio. thanks for the memories. very nice. bob hope all of a sudden. thanks. all right. meanwhile, he doesn t want a government handout for college so he s going into the business of patriotism to pay his own way. don t miss our next guest s awesome story. then it pays to have friends in high places. jon corzine lost billions of his investors money but he was never charged. now we may know why. his curious connection to the justice department just revealed.
espiatte, fears there was an attempt to throw the election do you believe there was fraud. if you examine the reports from voters, all from latino voters, and many of them who don t speak english, and you put together the nature of the cause, their names were not found there, they were turned away and told you don t feet here. reporter: his campaign wants to get the ballots secured and have a monitor monitor any row count. if you suspect fraud said a letter to our address. martha: eric shawn in the newsroom. gregg: a staggering number of americans now getting a government handout, we are talking about more than the entire population of new york city. can you believe that? the details straight ahead. martha: incredible numbers. that is getting a ton of attention this morning. and also this. criticizing the high court, why some say that the supreme court
federal government whose policies haven t allowed the economy to grow very much in the last three or four years and we need to get the economy growing again. once the economy gets growing again, some people will be able to find jobs they won t feel the temptation to a employ for disability if they really don t need it. martha: that is a great point. the other yes is with the food stamp issue it s a similar issue. it used to be something that nobody really wanted to get to that point. you would really try not to be in a position where you wanted to accept that government handout, but those kind of stigmas seem to have changed dramatically in this count throw as well. of course they ve changed because the federal government has contests and songs and skwreupbg else and commercials urging you to sign up for food stapls. its not just that heights available if you night, they are actively looking for customers as if they were a business. i guess they are in the business of dependency. mar