appreciate this connection. however, to ask israel to restrain itself after receiving over 1,000 rockets on our towns, i think that s not exactly the right message. i think israel and anyone should not be expected to incur and take hits forever. governor, i want to ask you, in terms of the united states and our response, specifically president obama, we frequently hear about how he leads from behind. what do you president obama should be doing given this current crisis, this one right now that s going on between israel and gaza? well, i think what he ought to do is to make it very clear that the last american taxpayer dollar has been sent to the palestinian authority until they publicly renounce their partnership with hamas. that s inexcusable. it s frankly illegal. we can t legally give money to a terrorist organization and the state department defines hamas
edge over frrepublican mark kir in the illinois senate race. and while the first lady has consistently said she s not interested, she s certainly shown she has a passion for public service. what the affordable care act provides and can provide for so many families out there is peace of mind. my husband is fighting as hard as he can and engaging as many people as he can to pass common sense reforms to protect our children from gun violence. the fact is today the average child watches thousands of food advertisements each year. and 86% of these ads are for products loaded with sugar, fat or salt. parents have the right to expect their kids will get decent food in our schools. and we all have a right to expect that our hard-earned taxpayer dollar s won t be spen on junk foods for our kids. she s a powerful force on the campaign trail and in the public
places. i m not a taker. i just don t want to be taken advantage of. and that s pretty much how i feel about that. how, the story gets worse. not only does paul ryan want to cut food stamps and medicaid, he s against the minimum wage increase. ryan has no solution for poor people across the board, but he has a real deal, a real deal, for corporations. those are his buddies. by not raising the minimum wage, he s actually giving taxpayer dollar it is to corporations like walmart. how does this happen? pay attention to this next video. slate.com put together what i think is a great video portraying just how everyone in america is picking up walmart s tab. this is a box of mac and cheese. this is walmart. and these are your tax dollars. we re going to show you how much that mac and cheese might cost if walmart paid its workers
wage to go up to $10.10 for the rest of the country. that has prompted some cries from republicans in congress that the president has overstepped his authority but i had a chance earlier today, wolf, to talk to the domestic policy adviser to this president, cecelia munoz. she says the president does have the authority. we know that the american people are strongly supporting the minimum wage. this is about making sure that people who work hard and play by the rules can make enough to support their families. that s why the president is calling on congress to raise the wage for the workforce. it s clearly a good value for the taxpayer dollar. you feel you have the authority? yes. and it s important to point out that that does not apply to current federal workers but just future federally contracted workers. meanwhile, a white house official tells me that they will
snit it comes back to a lack of leadership on capitol hill. they re always looking for the low hanging fruit. instead of going after people who have given 20 plus years of their service to this great nation, they should look at changing the rules for their own congressional pensions which kick in after five or six years of service and even after the member has passed away, it goes to their spouse. so there s a lot of tough decisions that they can make and it will require hard work instead of like i seen chairman issa do, go for the low hanging fruit. to now punish the american people instead of cutting the waste, cut the fraud and abuse of the american taxpayer dollar. let me ask you about something else, which is enormously distressing, a piece of news today, a poll showing a majority of americans, 54%, believe the u.s. will be on a downward spiral until the year