net through their program in particular and there s also been this mythology that if you just gave poor people cash that they wouldn t spend it in the right way, they d blow it on frivolous things, maybe alcohol, maybe cigarettes. in fact in brazil, they are just handing out cash and it is working really, really well. right. i mean i think with bos familia, the program in brazil, one of the interesting things about it is that the cash grant comes with a requirement that families make sure their kids are in school and getting appropriate health care. and i think that that s a very useful that s proven to be a very useful policy for them. remember, we re talking about a country in brazil, and we have similar problems here, though not quite as deep, where oligarchy, where so much of the wealth is held by so far. if you look at the landownership
82% espeople worked during the previous or following year that they received food stamps. we re not talking about people laying around watching flat screen tvs getting drunk, having babies as they re trying to depict them. it s inaccurate. it s unfair. it is absolutely horrendous to me because people have to labor under these misconceptions to try to make ends meet and make a way in this country. you re right, rev. listen, if you want to talk about the decline of america, it s not about the social safety net under attack for the last 20, almost 30 years. the decline of america is as a direct result of the consolidation of the wealth and resources and landownership in the top 1%. a country cannot exist in the future the way our economic system has flowed money upwards to the 1% over the last 20 to 30 years. the recession, recovery and data that says that the economic recovery has been channeled to the 1% is proof positive we ve got to make changes and have to change our attitudes. whe