and who is going to give them things? president obama. he knows it, and he ran on it. bill: now, that s the truth. and there s no denying the statistics in exit polling. however some liberal americans were outraged that i would actually say the truth and i ll tell yu ou why in a moment. and eight days after, mitt romney held a conference with his donors and say pretty much what i said. and what president obama did was focus on members in his base coalition and give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote. bill: again, that s the truth. and here is the backup. 20% of those who voted on election day make under $30,000 a year. those folks are either poor or close to it. many of those voters receive entitlements, food stamps, housing subsidies, that kind of thing and of course, they don t want the programs cut or
and mr. hillman is not homeless, he has an apartment paid for by you and me, he has enough to live in a dignified manner. he doesn t prefer that, he prefers the street and the boots that the officer gave him have disappeared. now i m not judging hillman, most cases like his involve substance abuse or mental illness, however, we must be honest, the government cannot provide a decent life for hillman. no matter how much money it spends. we re already giving the die tens of thousands of dollars a year and it s doing nothing. there are millions of americans like jeffrey hillman and we all need to understand that some people simply will not, will not save themselves. this translates to an issue that affects all of us. right now an estimated 66 million americans are receiving food stamps and/or medicaid. in addition, there are 21 million folks working for the government.
reorganized. among americans making less than 30,000 bucks a year, 63%, 63% voted for barack obama. just 35% voted for mitt romney. from that group, the president received about 7 million more votes than romney did. mr. obama won the popular vote by 3 1/2 million. so, is a stone-cold fact that lower income americans largely reelected president obama. mitt romney s failure is very clear. he could not convince the majority of voters that he would look out for them period. he did not show enough outrage every his 16 trillion dollar debt or explain what that could lead to. a total economic collapse. romney was timid, wasn t paul revere spreading the word about danger. ask yourself this question:
that means that 87 million people in america are being subsidized by we, the taxpayers. but there are only 109 million americans working in the private sector. doing the math, it s impossible for 109 million workers to support 87 million people. it can t be done. no matter how much you tax the workers. yet, the obama administration and the democratic party continue to put forth that higher taxation will bring the massive government debt under control. perhaps the only democrat telling the truth about this is our old pal, howard dean, the uber liberal former governor of vermont. the truth is everybody needs to pay more taxes, not just the rich. that s a good start, but we re not going to get out of this deficit problem unless we raise taxes across the board. bill: now, governor dean sympathizes with the socialist philosophy and that s where the country is heading.
government that we can eliminate. but, we can t simply cut our way to prosperity. cutting spending has to go hand in hand with further reforms towards tax codes that wealthyest corporations and individuals can take advantage of loopholes and deductions that aren t available to most americans. and we can t keep cutting egg things like basic research, new technology and still expect to succeed in the 21 century economy. so we re going have to continue to move forward in deficit reduction, but we have to do knit a balanced way, making sure we re growing, as we get a handle on spending. now, one last point i want to make, while i will negotiate over many things, i will not have another debate with this congress over whether or not they should pay bills that they ve racked up. through the laws they ve passed. let me repeat.