and don t forget to add in that they don t want people to have health care. that s near the top of the list. exactly. i do think it s sad. but it really does reflect an underlying philosophy. and that is the survival of the fittest. and so we don t want to put a hand out to help folks. if you can t make it, then you re out of luck. but when we re talking about food stamps just like you showed at the beginning of the segment is there s a lot of veterans on food stamps. are they saying that they re just sitting around waiting to have a government handout? i think it s a real double standard. and it s a very sad way that the republican party has developed. you know, in addition to cutting, they also want to add on crazy restrictions like you have to have drug testing and you have to work ignoring the fact that a huge percentage if not the majority of people who are on food stamp dos work.
name, would be insulting to hawaiian people. martha: so the federal communications commission is now strongly defending its $2.2 billion program that has become in, known as the obama phone program. acting ftc chair mignon clyburn firing back at conserve i was that the lifeline program is a government handout and claims president ronald reagan would actually be proud of this subsidy. listen. now that i have assurance, i can call our doctor. with assurance wireless in washington you get a free phone and 250 fry voice minutes each month. now that we have assurance, we can keep in touch with our grandchildren. martha: that s nice, right? sounds like a good thing. the program was established in fact during the reagan presidency in 1984. however the cell phone part did not kick in until 2005 in the lifeline program. matt mccall, president of penn
officials he took state grants. he took what? government money, i know, unbelievable. horrifying, a government handout. bailout bevin. you have to say, though, he is historic at this. and the republican leader of the senate is having to deal with this and it is a serious threat. it is a serious threat. . i love that he went out and called the supporters fringe. because this is his base, these are people he created. and the obama care de-funding program has become a litmus test for those on the right. he was the one that raised the obama care in the fiscal cliff negotiations we had at the beginning of the year. he is convincing people that the obama care implementation is the end of the world. so he only has himself to thank for making people believe that obama care is the end of the world. that is correct, he has himself to thank for stimulating this crazy section of the party.
bailout, why did he say that? he had a business that was destroyed by a fire, and at the request of state and local officials he took state grants. he took what? government money, i know, unbelievable. horrifying, a government handout. bailout bevin. you have to say, though, he is historic at this. and the republican leader of the senate is having to deal with this and it is a serious threat. it is a serious threat. . i love that he went out and called the supporters fringe. because this is his base, these are people he created. and the obama care de-funding program has become a litmus test for those on the right. he was the one that raised the obama care in the fiscal cliff negotiations we had at the beginning of the year. he is convincing people that the
slash that money and remove that safety net as folks are still struggling in this tepid economy. well, jehmu person with the minimum wage average person in america is making $53,000 a year with a minimum wage worker, that s over two times the poverty rate. minimum wage has little to do with poverty. in fact, tracy, it s not the recession that americans are pointing to about why it s wrong to be dependent on government. but, in fact, it s the ease of getting a system. it s not the recession. you can get food stamps quite easily. look, i agree with jehmu. there was a time when it was embarrassing. my family immigrated, they would never in a million years take a government handout. things have changed, jehmu since you were a kid. hey, my neighbor s getting a check, i want one too. how come i didn t get a first-time home buyers check. everyone else got something i didn t. now we re starting to feel like, hey, where s my cut.