dollar stores hired 20,000 people. walmart has hired half a million people. healthcare continues to hire people, and so i just don t see more people being on the welfare rolls, i do see people going back to work and retail especially is very encouraging so now when you have hopefully full passage in both chambers of infrastructure you will have so many jobs out there, especially in manufacturing that i don t think anybody is going to be able to even try pen something like that in the future. that s the issue he makes in the piece. he says we have historically high, never had this many jobs open in the united states, but he says when you get rid of rental, obligations because you have the eviction band which we ve said, the president himself questions whether it s legal or not. you have extended unemployment benefits, he makes the argument in this piece that it s more beneficial for people to stay home they go and fill some of those 10 million jobs.
77% of americans think it is reasonable to ensure that people who have the assets don t need to get food stamps. it would take that responsibility away from states. it will ensure that states are vetting the asset income of people who want to get food stamps. a family of 3 would have to earn less then $2050 per month, $27,000 per year but they would be limited in accountable assets that would include cash or money in the bank, like the money they save. an interesting case where a man who was a millionaire said i want to see if i could enroll in food stamps, he absolutely was able to do so. when looking at welfare rolls, they found over 4000 people were
tucker: how is it a civil rights victory when people in poor neighborhoods can t go to the grocery store at night or when grocery stores won t open? you keep in mind, from 1990 to 1994, when we had the highest crime rates in new york city, people can go anywhere. and giuliani came in in 1994 and said look, nobody wants to work, visit, live, or go to school in a place where they are not safe and as long as it s not safe, the city will implode. for every percentage points we reduce crime and murder in new york city, i could show you increases in economic development, and real estate value, in tourism, reductions in welfare rolls. it s you know, what s going on in new york city is the beginning of a turnaround to the demise of new york city and it s all because of one guy, mayor bill de blasio. tucker: what a sad story that is. great to see you tonight. thank you very much for that. thank you, sir.
i love the most is welfare rolls, as well as food stamps dove in the last few years and less people on welfare and work fare and you can t get a better situation than that. look it, every number that i look at has had an economy above par, doing really well. when i spoke to ceo s of big business, as well as medium sized, they re all very happy and it s amazing what you can do when you get out of the way as a big government. i think with the lowering of regulation, the corporate taxes dropping, by the way, just to get in line with the rest of the worrell, have been a huge help and hopefully continues. leland: you say hopefully it continues. how does this derail? debt and deficits. i talk about it all the time. the one thing that the president and mcconnell and ryan did not do is anything about the debt and deficit. they raised spending $300 billion a year ensuring we ll have debt going forward.
the drug cartels and human trafficking. thank goodness we have a federal government that will finally pay some attention to what s happening on the border. harris: even some states which are not on the border offering to send their troops. south carolina governor henry mcmaster said he is in talks with texas to lend a hand. remember, 3 out of 4 border states? california s governor jerry brown who has fought with the president over immigration policy has yet to say whether he will cooperate. to be. herman: no, he is not going to do it. let me get you a statistic that will blow you away. 12% of the u.s. population is in california. they get 33% of all their fair payment. that s why they don t want to close the border. they want to continue to build the welfare rolls in california has made it possible for illegals to get drivers licenses which is a ticket to register to