government got too big and made people too dependent and now it s going to be more government to change that. how does that work? eric: bob? how does that work? bob: i will tell you, i think it was a fairly, a fair commentary on limbaugh s part. i mean i think he got the gist of what i said. what i want to repeat here is that there is going to be a need for government to help certain people in our society. many of whom come from the inner city and are minorities and they are going to require government intervention to help them. we have went too far is what i said. i said it yesterday and i ll say it again today. we did it with the right intentions. in many cases the wrong outcome. andrea: why won t you stop? bob: i think there are very important programs that were in place, like head start. like women and children andrea: wic, obama
call the angry white male vote to split off and went with reagan. eric: didn t you say the union vote is not certain it will go to obama? bob: not by the large overwhelming percentage. andrea: you think it depends on nominee, though? right? aren t they anticipating, democrats mitt romney won t get the reagan democrats? that if it were someone different, would he change bob: i m not sure about that. i m saying before you jump on me here, this day i would like to talk about the fact there were fewer people asking for unemployment insurance, biggest drop in six years. 1.6 million jobs created last year. 55,000 in the manufacturerring which is more than happened in other years, including the bush years in one year. i think a lot of good economic news. eric: 1.7 million jobs to go to get back to break-even. bob: that is right. 1.7 million after the first three months after he came in office. dana: i think it was a bad decision from a national security standpoint, too. we ll
expanded wic. i don t think republicans made issue of wic. here is the issue. you keep want to grow it. you have want to grow it not to help people but as a form of economic stimulus, because you believe it will get the economy back on track. that is wrong. eric: let me bring it around. speaking of growing it. under president bush, dana, the average, full year averages, 23.6 million americans per year. at a cost of $28.1 billion on food stamps. referring to newt gingrich s comments. under president obama that number skyrocketed to 39.4 million americans at a cost of $65.7 billion. with the last year of record, approaching $76 billion. he is right. wow! it s exploded. dana: i think that you have to go back and look at the law and the formula under which you can apply and get food stamps. i don t think, i don t remember the bush administration changing that. maybe there was a change. i do remember that like the
greg: all the oil is going to china so the environmental concerns are still there. it s still bob: they reapply. it will come here. this will be the pipeline will be here. andrea: when? dana: send it here to help president obama s election. eric: do you realize why we have an xl pipeline or keystone pipeline? because we refuse to drill our own oil. drill your own oil, you won t need canadian oil or any canadian oil for that matter. offshore, gulf coast. up in alaska. millions. we could be self-seefficient on oil all we need here. greg: the battle for 2012 is heating up. the first big obama ad is released today. we ll play it for you. then i m i going to make all of you s mores with my famous homemade recipe. hint: i use paste instead of marshmallows.
unprecedented. america s clean industry industry, 2.7 million jobs and expanding rapidly. for the first time in 13 years the dependence on foreign oil is below 50%. andrea: bush numbers. bob: first of all, what do you think about the point which is factually accurate for the first time in 25 years we are below 50% in imports from the overseas? dana: the bush administration did a fantastic job of opening that up. because the numbers lag. if you look at the washington post today, which did a fact-check of this ad they point to the fact they are using bush administration numbers because it takes several years for things to catch up. eric: we are on a 40-year slide of oil production in america. the reason why our import number went from 60% down to just under 50% is because our demand is slowing down, because the economy stays under president obama. demand goes down.