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tonight. we'll see you tomorrow. >> how incentive and cold can you get? >> that is what i hear if a challenge a welfare program. >> we're talking aut people that we ought to be rushing to try to help the needy did benefit credit cards, edt cards. ♪ john: free stuff for victims. bill o'reilly. >> no matter what the evince, no matter what facts are esented, the liberal line will be the same if society's fault. john: she blames her parentsor bad attitude. the back street boy's neck carter blames his drug binges on paris hilton.
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lamardom as father blames his sons trouble on the kdashian these people say they cannot find wk. this woman works for the welfare office. >> which should be done about that? >> i don't really know. they will get a job. john: selling victim died. that is our show tonight. ♪ spherejohn: are you victim? won 19 emmys. solar powered clothesryer, just 50 bucks. what did they get inhe mail? a clothesline.
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>> this machine supposedly used chemical sprays to make pele feel younger. >> or you could use this device. >> wl step. ugly facial fat. john: it's my job. i should warn you about scams. nothing wrong with consumer reporting. the media always goes oveoard. and in 2020 we did. >> coffee makers may have started dozens of fires. john stossel with the facts you @%ou know, brewing disaster. john: did you happen to catch this so-lled this story? >> investigativeeporr went undercover to see firsthand how this underground world works. >> eight peoples sharing a meal in a stranger's home. blended best and dinr parties like these have become me common. insiders tell us they are coletely uegulated. john: oh, my goodness. unregulated dinner parties. gavin mcinnes is a media critic ann columnist. he hates this kind of hide and
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writes about it. what gets in thei heads? >> out of touch with the average american a think tt they need to get in there and regulated all. i feel like they have ner built the business, a liberal arts degree, a journalism degree, d't run the numbers. john: that is a good point. anybody u.s. tried to build something, a building or a business, they wake uo regulation. reporters, most have never built anything. >> i notice they took the comments section down from the web page at that news station. you called the reporter upnd gave her se heat, he. sh said she seemedubio. with my qstions she returned more questns. john: you would not answer the question. >> she wanted tonow what my ankle was a wire was asking questions. one thing i find a lot of these reporters are scared of is being exposed. they're like politicians. when you stick their face a per callt the name they're less likely to go othese witch hunts
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john: well, undercover cameras. one of the more famous ones, julia roberts won anscar portraying the hero, aaron brockovich. >> very harmful. >> it kills people. >> oh, yeah. >> a dream about being a will to watch their kids women a pool without worrying it willaveo have a hysterectomy at the age of 20. john: this was about a chemical leaked from a california power plant that was supposedly using cancer. but it turned out it probably wasn't causing cancer. the california cancerr registry studied cancer rates in that area and found no cancer excess. it i mean -- >> people fell for this because it is intuitive that think that being near a power plan is probably bad. being stressed must lead cancer. when you talk to expts in the field they go, really, smoking is the only thing you can do to change your genic makeup. if you're going to have cancer
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you, you're going to have cancer. otherwise, live for everyone and it as dressed as you want. john: lawyers made a hundred million dollars despite no evidence. i give thr real erin brockovich some credit after she and her lawyer boss were iticized calling me a corporate shell. i invited her on the program and she came. john:alifornians have to p more for electricity to pay off all of these lawye. it looks like this camp. >> is definitely not a scam. i have to tell you, in this instance with the southern gas and electric and being part of it from the processrom the beginning to the end, it was a willful egregiou intentional contract -- contact. they knew thathat chemical was a poison. john: the chemical is a poison, but for the record steady at 50,000 people who worked at the power plant and were exposed more and were healthier than average. so the media cells that, lawyers
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get rich, everyoneays more for electricity. >> corine is a poison and we swam in it all the time. it's great. i love boys and. john: you wrote recently about the myth america pageant. what is that about? >> what is happening in media these days is they have becom storytellers. they find a villain and said thathis princess in the castle story and then work backwards and get the evidence from there. the evidence is really tre, so they started relying on twier torove the theories. with the ms. america pageant it found a bunch of teams to set things like she looks like a terrorist. twitter is the same place where people say this house is not zombie-pof, but we are listening t opinions. john: there was actual backlash. theyave some fact. >> some kids, 14-year-old spirit take there followers. there was no bklash. it fits their nartive. a crowbar it and. john: a sample, the media freak
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out. >> the new winner isacing a fierce backlash. some people calling her a foreigner, an arab, even a terrorist. >> coming face-to-face with racism. >> racist comments bacchante -- began flooding the interne $1 began tweeting, ms. america is a terrorist. john: fierce backlash. >> i look at woman at that she has zero follors, littl kid. if you lk up i hateabies you will fin dozen of kidsayin that. john: twitter is full o rhetoric. what is e media do this? >> there are a million theories, but culpability is not sexy on tv. john: irresponsible. >>ven though it is what made our culture great, it is to we are is a nasnt - nation. it makes peopl feel better to say it is not their fault, victim of circumstance. john: one last example about media pple wringing there hands about victims is that media concern about kids being vote -- bullies. >> this kind of bullying is on the rice, by one ount as many
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as one in three kidseing victimized. >> cyber bullying, a growing epidemic. john: on the rise, a growing epidemic. i assume there was more bullying when i was a kid because nobody thought about it. i was bullied i assumedt was just part of schos. now at least there is awareness. i bet there is less. a former teacher jet a dire -- jedeah bila says this is an example of the media doing something right.3 >> i like thii. i saw cases of buling. johnelementary school. >> elementary school, colle. it is a real roblem. you have kids to not only have their grades suffer but contemplate the idea of hurting themselves. stories and inis work is ultimately commit suicide. when it comes to legitimate cases a bullying the mia and media personalities that have a platform can highlight cases and say, for exale, there was a girl in queens. in may and read a story aut a
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girl who did commit suicide as a result of bullying. it turneout that the administration was not doing proper follow-up a the parents to try to reach the administration to look into the problem. thats the kind of journalistic coverage that can help the issue in may because parents who ordinarily are not t sound into this issue to say, hold on. let me ask mike to someey questions. let me get t the school and make sureverything iskay. john: whatbout the media always saying it is on the increase. they don't know. >> in some cas the media can create victims and label tngs as bullying and really serious that are not necessarily. but there e cases where i is rious, particularly now with the internet age where we have facebook andwitter and cyber bullying, schools have a responsibility. john: and overight tv ancr wasraised by the media, got on the today show because after she got a letter from a viewer who said, you are a bad example for ds and should tak care of herself, she complained about his bullying.
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>> there arehildren who don't know bet, who did e-mails. as ctical l the one i received moren many cases even rse, each and every day. the intern has become a weapon . john: come on. she is a hero. the guy just said you should take care of yourself. >> this is an example of in my opinion hypersensitivity which is where the fine line comes in. >> this keeps happennng with all of these cases. now, yes, it is a tragic thing that someone killed themselves, let's can pare that to aees sting. how serio is this probl? millions of kids. let's quantify. john: hundreds of americans are killed. >> let quantify the people who were not. whenou bubble a child like thatnd put a protective ler and coddled them they're not prepared for the real world. john: now we have the intnet, and anemone which let people believe more.
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>> inevitably when youre arguinwith someo like ths guy who called arafat and she is fat, by the way. john: did not even call arafat, the wake. >> he should feel b. you're overweight. sorry. >> there has to be a balance in terms of how we looked at this. john: we are way beyond balance. thank-you. if you would like to keep this conversation going, go to facebook and twitter and use that has tagged. victimhood. let people know at you think. coming up. >> cupcakes for sale. john: i held the bake sale, a racist bake sale. >> that is not right. >> ouot to be on your -- john: also today, what does it mean to be porn america? >> at tv. >> television. john: air-conditioning? >> yes john: cable-tv? >> yes,. john: w many channels?
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have you? what amount of pay is reasonable at whapoint is is so low that if you work for that you are a victim? >> people got bills. you know, child payment, ca insurance, utilities. you kw, that doesn't -- the minimum wage is not cats -- john: there have been lots of protests around the country, mostly restaurant workers complaining about low pay the protests have had an effect. lifornia just passed a bill to raise the state's minimum wage to $10 per hour. most people around me -- i do live in manhattan -- c $10 is not enough, and the government must get in to guarantee those victims of greedy employers more money, a living wage. is, but he is president of the ayn rand institute, and we notice of this person ayn rand
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was. hugest advocat selfishness? >> i'm advating that everyone should be self interested. there are ma people out there who are interested in working for these rates. what happens when we set the nimum wage so high, $10 per hour or whenever it happens to be, $7.25, what happens to those people who don't produce at $10 an hour or $7.205? what we create is a class of people whoill never find a job. you why those people? yog, inexperienced, teenage, inner-city youth who are n excluded completely from the work force and will never learn skills and get the experience necessary for making a hdred dollars an hour. john: how are they excluded? >> because if they can only produce $5 an hour, no one will employ thee a$10 per hour. no onn will lose o onhe employees that they hire. john: and the restaurant lobbyists ran this ad.
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minimum wage. why robots cou soon replace ft food workers demanding a @%gher minimum wage. we are actually seeing is. if you drive up the cost,hat restaurants will do, they still need to make theirrofit, keep the price of their products chea they will replace people with technology. john: mcdonald's response thought wasnteresting. they came out with as simple budget, and a free comprehensive money management tool to priding an outline of what an individual budget may look like. they show that a person can work for minimum wage and still save $100 per month. however, it included working two jobs. it took a lot of heat for that. >> it is a little big brotherly for mcdonald's to tell its employees, here's what you can do. look, people are living all over this country ming this kind of money people came to this3 country with -- 100 years ago people lived on much less than this. they sent there kids and got an
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education and rose up. john: people do around thwod most people around the world live o much, much less. the government has noole in, you know, dictating -- john: our government has decided it does. >> it sure h, and as a consequence you have seen youth unemployment inhis country clos to 20%. %-ted raise minimum wages, what you see is massive unemployment among those who can least afford it. john: i think progress, every facet of this budget basically unachievable. >> many people achieve it. we all started somewhere. i make a lot of money today, but i started making less than minimum wage, foreign student, you know, working at graduate school making probably less than this. we managed. it is wrong to try to force people to pay a particular wage, to pay a particular forof income. this should be left for the marketplace. let -- left to negotiations.
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john:ffair was the protesters, there is a spring in their step. [chanting] john: they don't act like victims. >> i don't see any one of those people look ke they were starving. we make it more expensive. we are doing is not just, you know, violating the rights and reducing profits in everything that has to do with economically , but also denying jobs to people who cannot afford to be denied jobs and create unemoyment. john: listen to this more seriou protester who presents the victim message, and this persuades people. >>ome people work 80 hours a week and cannot make ends meet or have no time for anythi else. all they do is work all week. john all they do is work all week. nobody -- >> nobody knows anything. john d't we or it -- of the
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poor ssmethi? >> no, we don't. john: i feel i owe as an individual. >> then you as an individual can help them out,ut they are not asking for your help. they're not trying to negotiate a better salary. what they are aing is for the state to bring coercive power and force you to help them, force employers to help them. john:hank you. yaron bro. coming up, our black people victims in america do i victimize them further if i run this race is to bake sale? >> we have differe prices here. if you are asian, and dollar 50. if you're white, and dollar. if you are latino or black, $0.50. howdy partner. you're not linda.
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contuing racial discrimination but the author of "balash" offers that this focus on the past is terrible for blacks. ca says they should stand up against desuctive progressive tyrants to promote victimhood. distractive progresve tyrants. >> progressi policies are harming the black community, failg public schools, unemployment is over 13%, or 40 percent among young black individuals. john: they are victims. >> stands up to these present policies that are not working. and do not seehem as vtims. they are not victims. that is a narrative that the left useall the time to promote eir big government agenda. they don't want to promote berty, personal responsibility . vapor vote --, a bigger governmt john: you went to the naacp annual summit and heard a lot about victimhood. >> toughout the entire meeting hn: every speech?
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>> what i heard when i was there was an as verses them mentality. added not hear any solutions. i heard a lot of victimization, race cards. voter i.d. is ract, as verses th. if you are black you don't stand chance. john: at that same naacp conference where you are not allowed to speakhould point out, al sharpton mard -- mocks people whoho say the election of president obama means tha america is past racism. >> those that were saying that never was profiled in a partment store. those thatt were saying at work never pulled over on the highway. john: here is a point, of the black man is more likely to be pulled over on the highway, profiled. >> racism is not prevale across our country there are 80 it's out there may be racist, but clearly look at individuals and politics, business, sports, entertainment. myself, and i implore all
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freedom of americans to stand u@ and push back on is narrative. don't be afraid to be called a racist or a a sellout, of the different names. ifif you believe in liberty and want to advance our country forward, i implore all americans to speak out. john: he stock to let the killing of trade onarti the president said this could have been my son. it could have been his son. >>e injected himselinto this and made about a racial issue when, in fact, it had nothing to do with race. john: we don't know at it had nothing to do about race. >> the fbi investigation concluded that. zimmerman was n convicted. so clearly it was not about race. unfortunately early on we had people who promoted it a our pop race. that is what domineered the headlines. john: and a produr at nbc -- surprise, surprise -- clearly had black vicmhood in line -- in mind when he edited the nine month one call. here the actual call. >> this guy los like he is up
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to no good or something. it isaining. he is just walking around looking about. >> okay. this guy, is the white, black, or hispanic? >> he looks black. john: the editor tookp the dispatcher asking, is the white, black, hispanic, was left just this. >> this guy looks ke he is up to no good. he looks black. john: look, and television, we always -- maybe he was jus -- >> no, that was just very inappropriate and t wrong thing to do. anything about race is emotional and it drives the headline. eerly on with this case, this investigation, it was aays about race when, i fac it wa't. john: seventh blacks been victims in america? >> years ago, jn. black individuals did not have access to education, housing, jobs. times have changed, and we don't live in that era anymore. john: let's tal about
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affirmative action, given america's history of discrimination, it seems reasonable to me that whites should try to make amends, tried to give a break to minorities grace that i had. what is wrg with that before you answer, let's bring in a white person who opposes affirmative action. jennifer gratz was denied admission to the university of michigan, you say because you are white. aviano was because of your race? >> well, they're proud of the fact that they use race and admission to help some people into heard others. the unirsity of machinelike i applied -- johnn not prrudly hurt others. they say thehelp some. >> when i pplied to the university of mhigan and a point syem in place. you needed 100 points to be accepted. a perfect act score and an applicant to los points, and a standing as sake was one point. you're bck as bennett, are
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native american, you're automatically awarded 20 points, more than a perfect act your sats court. very obvious how much a factor replace. john: you su over this intricate knowledge of the suureme court and won. >> did. john: affirmative action still lives. >> the supreme court said that race preferences cannot be used in a mechanicalay3 the could not be a point system, but race could be used as a factor for about another 25 years. john: if i get a job applint and th are eal, probably would take the bla person figuring this person had may be to overcome something in the past. what is wrong with that? >> i thi that our decisio making suld be colorblind. ihink that first of all, the chances -- john: what about the history of discrimination and special privileges for whites? >> i don't know of any special privileges that i have.
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the are three unintended viitims of these policies. the people who get a preference t get into college and don need or to get a job and don't need it and the credentials of unquestioned. john: usalk about that. he sent ushis video of a conversation with a 16-year-old girl. she has t grades, perfect s.a.t. scores, and she is against affirmate action. >> this college, racial tension and racial division because the white people going to s, oh, but we don't get preferences. we don't get advantages. they're going to resent the minorities. i'm going to get extra points because of pilot light, and i resent that. i don't want people looking at me and saying, maybe she gotn because of what she looks like and not because she is qualified john: i have heard that befe. how cou ever trust that this doctoreserves to be a doctor. >> these policies did not est among we would love the people in positions that allow lives
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and their handsre there because of their merit. john: oer victims, you say, are people o get the preference and do well in school. correct. people who are qualified to get into a second-tier schools are bound to because of eferential treatment and get into a top tier school and then don't do well and end up with a considerable amount of debt and student loans and oftentimes dropout. so now they have a debt, no degree, d they feel horribl. they don't feel successful. woulde better off having kids go where they're prepared to, wther qualications say they're ready to go and graduate and get a degree in feel like a success. john: the third category is ts message of victimhooood. >> yes. the race hustlers of the world, and jesse jackson, a sharpton. john: if you're td yore a victim, you start to act like it >> exactly. you act ke a victim. you become a victim. and it becomes an us versus them
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type of mentality which i know you talked about earlier. john: to raise people's consciousness about affirmative tion, i once ran a racist bake sale john: cupcakes for sale. my priceless said agents had to pay $1.50, white's $1.00, latinos andlacks just $.50. >> that is not right. >> y have to be out of your mind. >> that is stereotyping. john: it is. >> that is not right. hn: it is the same pnciple. >> you got their attenon. let me give you a quick -- john: we had a conversation people were saying, i had not thght of it that way. >> frederick douglass was born a slave, escape slavery, self educated, involved in politics, an adviser to presidents, he disdained affirmative action and speciaialreatment. so if he was someone that could do it and be successful, anyone can with our work.
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♪ john: welfare is spose to help people in need, give destitute people a chance to get back on their feet. that is not what usually hpens , former welfare recipients team -- star parker. what you mean? >> what has happened is the poor have been conditions to adopt a slave mentality. i don't on myself and and not
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free. it is sad in a free country that we are even calling ourselves pork. i gotaught up in it, and lot more people are today because they goodies are getting much broader and more expensive to the taxpayer. john: peopleho get government aid often say the solution to their proem is mor government aid. here is what i wasoloutside a fd kitchen in harlem. poverty stinks'. >> give us more jobs and opportunities. john: govnment should just created job. >> create jobs. >> create more jobs. john: more food stamps. >> mar foods cents. >> more welfare. >> more welre. john: oo and on. the impressions that ods come >> right.rnment. well, that is the disconnection. i never thought about it when i lived on welfare. we have also taken the shame out. you can live tax dendent commit taxpayer dependence and no one will even know it. housing for the poor has improved when it is come to what lay it -- what they look like.
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you cannot tell it is a government pay for. john: you see lived pretty well. >> it is a mentality. this is the problem. people are not connecting to their own lives and well-being. it is, give me something. then you make use similar to slavery where you make do if you are on by someone else. it put up barriers so they cannot live free. you move from one benefit to the next. john: check out the fear of a california surfer dude who john roberts inrviewed here uses his food stamp card to buy lobster and sushi. >> hundred dlars a month >> thank you for shopping with us. >> juslike that. >> please remove our bags. >> a paid for by our wonderful tax dollars. john: he had no interest in getting a job. >> not something that peals to you..3 >> not whatsoever. john: you work the system when you collected. >> why not just hang out at venice beach all afternoon. i did it for a long time. it was not until the christian
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conversion changed my life and i engage in my own well-being. work is hard which is why we don't want to reward of behavior. john: the government's welfare bureaucrats ussally claim that they are saving people. one outsi welfare office i was this -- surprised the find that admitted what she does leads ople to death not bother to look for work . you end human-resources encourage people to be independent? %-hn: what should be done? >> i don't really know. i guess stop giving away the money and it will get a job. john: and you work for the government. >> that's right. jo: that is a pretty unusual reaction. [laughter] >> don't work, don't save, don't get married. that is the rule of welfare. john: don't admit that usually, do they? people with serious. >> no, they were not serious, but they did not admitted in public. mike case worker is the one that told me if anyone ever asked to
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make sure that night did not live beyond what they were paying me. pretend that added the issue one to go to lunch with her girlfriend. she is part of the problem. john: one aspirg actress and lives in a poor neighborhood inn s angeles made this video mocking e welfare system. >> go to california. i need some money. >> free food. >> mama says she can't take me to school. >> wget fe food. >> free day care, free clothes. this is where it then it checks pay and money goes. all you have to do is -- and nine months later you get the@ big box. john: obviously her point, having babies wednesday benefits >> absolutely true. if you get pregnant you get a eck. welfare reform, you get pregnant at 14, 15, 16, you get a check ana housing voucher to move out of your parentsetting. it is sad. john: you think a 14 year-old
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girl says i will get pregnant because i'm going to get this monthly check? >> i think that wt we have done is incentivized thi type of behavior. remember, these fol have en conditioned to believe they are victims. when you're 14ears old and lived in housi project because your mother was 14 when she got pregnant with you and you looked out at your optns, broken school, broken environment, yes, you can then say why not just live for today. the next thing you know you are pregnant and in that same cycle john: said if a politician dares suggest change, cutting benefits , the media and the left , i they the same thing? eight hacked out rates. >> the are other tngs that could be on the table before you pick a program that is feeding the nation's poor children. >> al insensitive and cold can you get? john: and hal insensitive and cold you must be to suggest these cuts.
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[laughter] >> it is the beet medicine ever. it is a cancer in our society, and the people that are promoting to keep the status quo at the ver part of the system th is now working. we declare war on poverty, and trillions of dlars later we have a clapse of marriage, communities that are in total ruin and you have the likes of those forces we just heard that keep insisting we contie this madness. john: thank you. we do seem to continue the madness. coming up, the truly hopeles deseed assistance, even i agree wh that. government assistance? it creates more victims. ♪ so i caneach ally bank 27, but there e ranches? 24/7. i'm sorry, i'm just really reluctant to try new things. really? what's wrong with trying new things? look! mommy's new vacuum!
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♪ john: are you isabled?abled yo? i am a stutterer. day's disabily laws existed and i bean work, i wonder if i had overcome my problem or maybe just giv up, collected a government check. i am glad today's disability laws did not exist then because without them i struggled and i am here. but the laws do exist now, and coincidentally, more americans say they are disabled.
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ted dehaven tudies this. >> a couple of years ago at walmart i over here a conversation between two women and hear one say t the other, i could take a pay cut or i could just go for disability. it really suck me as an analyst to dell's into various government programs. she spoke of that as if it was either or. i went home and looked att. the numbers havexploded. when you start looking at the program, we are not more disabled. we are not a blue-collar economy any more and have -- john: more peopl are wororking t home, less manual labor. >> exactly. so how could thisand all this more money for disability and have these people applying. john: when you say all these peopll applying,ou have the cato institute chart that shows the money spent over the last 5 years. people say, well,hen the economy gets better and then it goes down.
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it barely went down in the 80's and the economy improved. basically it is going steadily up. >> we have had a liberalization ineligibility going back to the 1980's it showing up now. for paren trying to get there kids on psychotropic medications and the hopes that they will increase their odds of qualifying for a check. it goes to dad and mom. john: your neighbor gets sick and you start to feel like a sucker. >> the message being sent to m and disabled. as they become adultt, the first thing th're being taught is don't work. disadvantaged or they are or are not. john: disled used to mean paralyzed. a severe injury. now it means what? depression, back pain. >> is le any other government program. you start off with good intentions and it becomes something it was never supposed to be. the original disability
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insurance proam was sposed to benefit those ages 50 to 64 as basically a transition into regula retirement. since the 1980's.s. in a 300 percent incrse in awards for bk pain, mental issues, what they call non exertion of restrictions. i am going to my chiropractor torrow with a pinched nerve, compreed disk a quite honestly trying to take on the government is driving me nuts. is a good chance i could qualify if i pressed are enough. john: it used to be that they were paralyzed. today most of the claims are things like anxiety, stress, back pain, nebulous diagnoses. >> and it is very subjective. john onether reason more people collect, lawyers make big bucks promoting them. >> if you are disabled or can't work you need s social security disability benefits, but don't try getting the money around. >> we help people get disability benefits. >> it is important that you act now.
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>> call 1-800-win/win one. >> my law firm has collected over $30 billion for injured people. john: the third of a billion dollars. >> yes. sometimes when i am at the gym i know this program after program containing commercials for these folks. they don't make a ton of money, especially specialty law firms. john: $88 million according to the "wall street journal" in just one year. >> about a decade ago the deck -- the government made it easier r non lawyers to represent people in appealing a claim. they hire aunch of che non lawyers and such and rushed people through the syste, figure out the system, collect little bits of money. it adds that if you get enough people. john: and you pay. thank you. coming up, a doctor composing rap music to try to fight victimhood. it a growing trend in business: do more with less with less ergy.
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>> now is time to have occurd and take responsibility for reactions in that year life the way it should be live. john: live your life t way it should be lived. that music is not from a professional singer, a doctor@ who works at a clinic in ohio. anthony atkins. you got thi idea from the kids you saw. >> the idea from worng with youth. it started in oo, wking in a fast track e.r.
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teen pregnancies come as tds, guns, drugs, things of that nature. we just developed a bond. i started talking to them. john: you would s to these kids, like you live like ts? >> very straight up with me. and sometimes he did not have a way to go. decided to use the musiche way they do and listen to me to teach and educate. that is what we do. john: in response to teen pregnancy let's play a clip from your song titled what if. it. ♪ john: ando you really think this will make difference? it is hard to think that music could make a difference. >> this i medicine and music. yes, given the chance and guarantee it will make a difference. theids ll come back and say, i am so glad you spoke to us this way because a lot of people
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are n doing it. you keep it really does. you keep it straight with us, e love it. john: thank-you. your signs are directed to the black community, but i shod be clear that the show is not singling out minorities. most scalled victims in america are white people, and many are affluent. caroline biden, joe biden's niece, was arrestee recently for rowing a punch at a cop. the new york post says she is addicted to alcohol and pills does not take responsibility for actions instead blaming them on the pressure she faces because her uncle is the vice-president. givee a break. america succeeded because i was founded by people who were the opposite of victims, peopl with great, overcoming obstacles is the route to prosperity and happiness. so three cheers for dr. anthony atkins and for all of you fiting to be anything but
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victims. that is our show. see you next time. ♪ you're the best. have hot coco tonight. see you on monday. > the fight in washington i just plain ugly. but will a settlement between the democrats aad the republicans kick the disagreements down the road? will it change anything? we're talkings the fight something destructive or something we really need? right here right now. >> from the fox busins headquarters in new york city "the tom sullivan show." here's your host, tom sullivan. >> here's what i have at theop of the stack. we know the atmosphere in washington has drawn more poisonous over the years and the respect forur lawmers has dropped as a result. but has ogovernment grown too big and too powerful? is it time to finally have a showdown over what we wa our govevernment to do or
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