Now new warnings, some folks could be doubledipping benefits to the give equivalent of a 20 an hour salary. Here to weigh in, Senior Research fellow at the heritage foundation. Thanks for being with us today, robert. Thank you. Gerri im not sure whatever happened to selfsufficiency but weve got a third of a country on 0 or so welfare programs that country makes available. What do you make of that . Im not surprised at all. For the last 30 years meanstested welfare which provides cash, food, housing, and medical care for poor people, and im not including Social Security and medicare in this account, has been the Fastest Growing component of government. We have roughly a third of the u. S. Population on at least one program and last year we spent 920 billion on these programs. A lot of people think, well this happens during recession, then it goes down when the recession ends. That is absolutely not true. What really happens is, the dependency and spending go up a lot during recessions a
Now new warnings, some folks could be doubledipping benefits to the give equivalent of a 20 an hour salary. Here to weigh in, Senior Research fellow at the heritage foundation. Thanks for being with us today, robert. Thank you. Gerri im not sure whatever happened to selfsufficiency but weve got a third of a countryot country makes available. What do you make of that . Im not surprised at all. For the last 30 years meanstested welfare which provides cash, food, housing, and medical care for poor people, and im not including Social Security and medicare in this account, has been the Fastest Growing component of government. We have roughly a third of the u. S. Population on at least one program and last year we spent 920 billion on these programs. A lot of people think, well this happens during recession, then it goes down when the recession ends. That is absolutely not true. What really happens is, the dependency and spending go up a lot during recessions and then they never come down ag
Could be doubledipping benefits to the give equivalent of a 20 an hour salary. Here to weigh in, Senior Research fellow at the heritage foundation. Thanks for being with us today, robert. Thank you. Gerri im not sure whatever happened to selfsufficiency but weve got a third of a country on 0 or so welfare programs that country makes available. What do you make of that . Im not surprised at all. For the last 30 years meanstested welfare which provides cash, food, housing, and medical care for poor people, and im not including Social Security and medicare in this account, has been the Fastest Growing component of government. We have roughly a third of the u. S. Population on at least one program and last year we spent 920 billion on these programs. A lot of people think, well this happens during recession, then it goes down when the recession ends. That is absolutely not true. What really happens is, the dependency and spending go up a lot during recessions and then they never come down
Could be doubledipping benefits to the give equivalent of a 20 an hour salary. Here to weigh in, Senior Research fellow at the heritage foundation. Thanks for being with us today, robert. Thank you. Gerri im not sure whatever happened to selfsufficiency but weve got a third of a country on 0 or so welfare programs that country makes available. What do you make of that . Im not surprised at all. For the last 30 years meanstested welfare which provides cash, food, housing, and medical care for poor people, and im not including Social Security and medicare in this account, has been the Fastest Growing component of government. We have roughly a third of the u. S. Population on at least one program and last year we spent 920 billion on these programs. A lot of people think, well this happens during recession, then it goes down when the recession ends. That is absolutely not true. What really happens is, the dependency and spending go up a lot during recessions and then they never come down
Along our constitutional lines between the executive branch and outside of that. Host is there a spectrum crunch . Guest theres certainly a lot of demand for spectrum and we stopped making spectrum a long time ago. There isnt any more so were having to come up with ways of accommodating all the various uses. Certainly, the growth of cellular has been astronomical. Were continuing to look for ways to provide that portion of our community more spectrum. Unlicensed use has grown tremendously. The advent, for instance of wifi was a huge expansion in the amount of consumer use and so on of unlicensed operations. But the federal government use is i growing also is growing also. The federal agencies have are lots of different kinds of operations so while in a cell phone band everything in that band is basically cell phones, maybe at some different point of their evolution and technology standpoint, but theyre basically all cell phonesment they pack them together, its very uniform. On the fede