do the wrong thing. we saw it with the welfare programs in the 1960s on up until 1996 when a democrat president, bill clinton, got together with a republican speaker of the house, newt gingrich and they formed this work fair policy. everybody was pulling their hair out. liberals said it would increase poverty. the opposite happened. when you got people to work for those benefits that they were getting from the government, poverty went down about 40%. particularly childhood poverty went down. people got off of the welfare roles. they a 2.7 million welfare recipients. five years later, it was 1.5. a 42% drop in welfare. we have to do the same thing now before it s too late, before these habits, these bad habits become engraved. they started with the pandemic and biden doubled down with those habits, increased the welfare benefits, increased
the beat. hi, how are you? if i were to put police on every corner in america, of course crime will go down. but the question is at what cost? for many black people, it was a sense of community. a sense of dignity. a sense of respect from law enforcement. with the majority of americans worrying about their quality of life in california, the easy going tolerance of earlier decades has frayed. at the ballot box, what we see in california which is sort of the leading edge of this trend is a whole number of different types of initiatives that are meant to further contain communities of color. tens of thousands of californians marched through downtown los angeles today to demonstrate against proposition 187. which would bar illegal immigrants from public schools, non-emergency medical services an welfare roles. we are as american as everyone else. and we deserve an education . opponents say it plays on voter prejudice against
with the majority of americans worrying about their quality of life, in california, the easy-going tolerance of earlier decades is frayed. at the ballot box, what we see in california, which is the leading edge of this trend, is a whole number of different types of initiatives that are meant to further contain communities of color. tens of thousands of californians march today to demonstrate against proposition 187. which would bar illegal immigrants from public schools, nonemergency services, and welfare roles. we are as american as anybody else. we deserve an education. opponents say the emotionally divisive measure plays on prejudice against latinos. supporters say it will staunch the flow of illegal immigrants to california. it has become the issue in the governor s race. pete wilson is pinning his re-election hopes on anti-immigrant sentiment. we re going to take back california for the working,
when people in poor neighborhoods can t go to the grocery store at night, the grocery stores won t open. keep in mind from 1990 to 1994 when we had the highest crime rates in new york city people couldn t go anywhere. guiliani came in in 1994 and said nobody wants to work, visit, live, or go to school in a place where they re not safe. as long as it s not safe the city will implode. for every percentage point we reduced crime and murder in new york city i could show you increases in economic development, in real estate value, in tourism, reductions of welfare roles. you know, what s going on in new york city is the beginning of a turn around to the demise of new york city and it s all because of one guy, mayor bill deblasio. tucker: a sad story, great to see you tonight, thank you for that. thank you, sir.
advance a more conservative agenda. kevin is a conservative, too. the people that want to try to rate all of that. we ll be judged on what we get done and we have gotten big things done. the tax cut bill is the biggest but rolling back regulations, working with president trump to get our economy moving again. there is more we want to get done. we want to reform some of these broken programs. you look at the welfare state right now. there are a lot of people that just gave up looking for work because the economy was so bad for eight years under barack obama. we want to get millions of people who gave up looking for work to get back into the workforce. people that are ready to work, they just lost confidence in the economy. the economy is doing better. let s help get those people off the welfare roles rolls and become part of the american dream again. sandra: we ve been watching the markets react mostly to what happens next in syria. this is huge. and the president this morning