cash payments, food stamps, housing subsidies, rent subsidies, heating subsidies, medical payments various kinds, family services, cell phones. all these transfer payments from this group to that group in the form of . martha: federal subsidies for cell phones is part of that? there are 6 million federally subsidized, provided welfare cell phones out there. all included in this $11 trillion cost. that is welfare as defined by the republicans on the senate budget committee using the government s own numbers. it is shocking. it is astonishing. 11 trillion. martha: here the discussion give the gun debate going on in this country who we are as a nation. what kind of nation are we. who are we as a people. i would submit we might want to consider these numbers as well when we talk about who we are as a nation, who we are as a people. martha, this is direct reversal of the welfare reform that was passed by president clinton in the
jack cafferty is here with the cafferty file. jack? at least one in six people in the united states gets government handouts. unemployment insurance had, food stamps, medicaid, rent subsidies, aid to dent depend children, you name t lots of americans get money for more than one of these programs at the same time. republican congressman ron paul of texas says we simply cannot afford all of the entitlement and welfare programs that we currently have. ron paul is one of the few voices of reason in washington when it comes to our debt crisis. he is predicting an end to the nanny state in this country. paul wrote this on his website tuesday, instead of dealing seriously with our situation, so many in washington would rather allow the chaos that will ensue when all of the dependent people are suddenly cut off. it s better to tell people the difficult truth, that government is simply not capable of managing people s lives from the cradle to the grave as was foolish belie promised.
i think he is right. think about t when many of our ancestors came here generations ago there were no welfare programs new york food stamps, no rent subsidies, and yet the poor and the uneducated from places like italy and ireland, people, some of them who didn t even speak english, came to this country, managed to survive and in time, actually thrived and prospered. back when we had no federal department of education, our schools were the best in the world. now they are among the worst. before the department of house and urban development, our industry bustling centers of progress and economic growth. now, a lot of them are in decay kaye and decline with growing poverty, shrinking opportunity. see detroit. but when people like paul ryan talk about cutting government spending on some of this stuff, the democrats get down right apoplectic. here is the question. here lieutenant end of the nanny state in the united states inevitable? go to c nchlt nchlt p kom slnn.
market this afternoon might. might. in less than an hour, a few minutes actually, the dow jones industrial average went from down a couple hundred to down almost 1,000 points before rebounding some, closed down about 340. the panic was triggered in part by greece. greece is a world-class welfare state. people retire in their 50s, they re accustomed to government handouts at every turn. now the greek government says we re going to have to cut back, and people go crazy. here in the united states, we have a growing welfare state. we have food stamps and aid to dependent children, unemployment insurance, medicaid, rent subsidies, welfare and of course tens of millions of illyle aliens. we have a $12 trillion debt we re unable to pay. while it ain t going to happen tomorrow, at some point we ll be faced with the realization that we can t do it this way anymore, something has got to give. when that day comes, there will be cuts, drastic, drabbenian cuts. whether it leads to the kind of
good time in new orleans, i can see it on your face. thanks for joining us tonight. have a great weekend. thank you, you too. all right. c street residents are not happy that everybody keeps talking about the issue of subsidized rent at the c street house in washington. these guys say they are not getting rent subsidies, they are paying what everyone pays for a place like that. that s an impeerically checkable fact, isn t it? let s check. that s coming up. it s not always easy living with copd, but i try not to let it hold me back. whether i m at the batting cages. down by the lake or. fishing at the shore. i m breathing better. with spiriva. announcer: spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled maintenance treatment for both forms of copd, which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema.