or medical help for people who don t need insurance. that s partly responsible for it the aging population. maybe a few percentage points. yes a growing welfare state. the moderate democrat party is essentially a cult of victim hood and dependency. actually if you go back to franklin roosevelt expanded under linden jonsz and under this president. they have done everything they could to establish these redistributionist pillars like social security, medicare, medicaid, and under this president he has massively expanded the welfare state by adding a multitrillion dollars entitlement with obama care. i think a lot of republicans over many decades have gone along with this mentality. bill: gone along. yes. they you think don t think fostered it? a lot of them did go along with it the latest polls show that american veterans are against barack obama president obama big time. i think it s it 58, 28 or
bill: barack and hard place segment tonight. according to the census bureau 3.5 million american citizens. in the first three months of last year, nearly auto% of american households received some kind of government benefit. 149 million of those folks got compensation they are entitled to things like medicare, social security. but 107 million americans received so-called means tested assistance things like medicaid, food stamps, housing money. cost of all of the entitlements together $2.3 trillion this year alone. with 1.4 trillion of that debt. we can t pay it. we have to borrow the money. is america now officially a welfare state? here now monica crowley and alan colmes. welfare state, colmes? unemployment insurance in the last year 7.7 million
and fraud. we had problems with housing money. we had a stadium that was built without the taxpayers commission that encumbered this community to pay back bonds $3 billion over 40 years. and miami has been one of the hardest hit communities during this recession. we have one of the highest foreclosure rates or unemployment has been 35% to 40% higher that national average. martha: $444 billion in the budget gap. do you think this is a sign of things to come? are we going to see these kinds of recalls if people don t take these measures to cut spending? it s more than just cutting spending here. we had everything gone wrong. this mayor dolled out $132 million in pay increases to some of the public unions here.
bill: barack and hard place segment tonight. according to the census bureau 3.5 million american citizens. in the first three months of last year, nearly auto% of american households received some kind of government benefit. 149 million of those folks got compensation they are entitled to things like medicare, social security. but 107 million americans received so-called means tested assistance things like medicaid, food stamps, housing money. cost of all of the entitlements together $2.3 trillion this year alone. with 1.4 trillion of that debt. we can t pay it. we have to borrow the money. is america now officially a welfare state? here now monica crowley and alan colmes. welfare state, colmes? unemployment insurance in the last year 7.7 million