federal building. tonight, two immigration and customs enforcement officers are dead. third is wounded. police say a gunman reportedly an ice agent himself killed one agent and wounded another. the gunman also died. it s unclear if police shot him or he shot himself. stay tuned to fox news channel for the latest on this breaking news. congressman alan west condemning government handout as modern form of slavery. this is congressman west in house floor speech. the record value of minimizing government dependence is particularly beneficial to the poorest among us. conversely, the democratic appetite forever increasing redistributionary hand-outs is the most insidious form of slavery. remaining in the world today. and it does not promote economic freedom. greta: so what does congressman west say that? he joins us and we ll find out. congressman, explain.
he didn t show. they then wanted a different witness. college student who really didn t belong on that panel for obvious reasons. greta: why did they want a law student from georgetown. why a law student? he is had a compelling story, a sad story of a classmate who developed an ovarian cyst that might have been prevented by using contraceptions in another way. one that by the way, the catholic bishop and everyone else there said is fully allowed under their faith. they don t have a problem with that. but her story was compelling but it wasn t in any way related to the point of the stated reason for the hearing. greta: but they wanted her. you said they could haven t her, it was too late? they were way too late for any witness. we said this a week ago. we have kept asking and asking, monday, tuesday, finally wednesday at the end of the day they gave us two names. we picked one. the tradition, the republican
make we get a different level of buy-in by individuals that are beneficiaries that help us to understand what the future cost will be. every person listening to this thinks in the age of 40, 50, 60, i pay money to medicare. are you telling me i can t get it until farther in future when i pay this money, number one? number two, it s more expensive and that is what is going to happen to me? the big lie is we put in enough money to cover the expenses. that is political cheating that has gone on. greta: right now? yeah. the average couple puts in $130,000. they take out $340. how long do you think it will last? why are they taking out 340? you mention something a minute ago senator, waste, fraud abuse. what we know is one out of every $3 in medicare spent doesn t help anybody.
dependency and poverty. greta: there is a big difference between handing out and inspiring and giving an opportunity. is it. greta: the inspiring and the opportunity is well, the look at myself. the opportunity for me came i had two great parents, parents with a military background. i also got involved in the high school r.o.t.c. program. that was the ticket for me to get out. greta: what was the like at the time? my what was the neighborhood like at the time? more families there. a strong church environment. we did have the small black businesses. i would walk from the elementary school to butler ymca. that was the cradle of black entrepreneurship and small businesses. that is gone. greta: i was criminal defense in washington, inner city, i would have a 17-year-old client charged with murder. his mother would be 14, 15 years older. wouldn t be in the picture. the grandmother would be in the picture.
you and i talked about this before. jack kemp and art laffer came up with the urban empowerment zones. how do we stimulate urban growth and get people to reinvest in the communitys? how do we get individuals to invest in those who want this establish greta: how do we do that? we have to provide a sentence. when you look at provide incentives. look at small business, how do we give tax credit. we don t want to double up capital gains stat to dry up investment, something that the president talked about. i want to see and bob johnson and i, former head of b.e.t. talked about this. how do we incentivize people to invest in those who want to take business opportunities in the inner city? because then they will hire the people from that community. that is how you break that cycle. greta: how do we i insent vise it? why would someone want to open a business in the inner city communitys? most people are terrified of the inner city? the security aspect has to be a part of it. the