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but the alternative is government force that leaves everyone for. that's our show. see you next week. buying, thank you for watching 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 about 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 evidence, no matter what facts are presented, the liberal line will be the same if society's fault. john: she blames her parents for bad attitude. the back street boy's neck carter blames his drug binges on
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paris hilton. lamar odom as father blames his sons trouble on the kardashian these people say they cannot find work. 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 a victim? won 19 emmys. solar powered clothes dryer, just 50 bucks. what did they get in the mail?
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a clothesline. >> this machine supposedly used chemical sprays to make people feel younger. >> or you could use this device. >> will step. of ugly facial fat. john: it's my job. i should warn you about scams. nothing wrong with consumer reporting. the media always goes overboard. and in 2020 we did. >> coffee makers may have started dozens of fires. john stossel with the facts you @%ould know, brewing disaster. john: did you happen to catch this so-called this story? >> investigative reporter went undercover to see firsthand how this underground world works. >> eight peoples sharing a meal in a stranger's home. blended best and dinner parties like these have become more common. insiders tell us they are completely unregulated. john: oh, my goodness. unregulated dinner parties. gavin mcinnes is a media critic ann columnist.
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he hates this kind of hide and writes about it. what gets in their heads? >> out of touch with the average american and think that they need to get in there and regulated all. i feel like they have never built the business, a liberal arts degree, a journalism degree, don't run the numbers. john: that is a good point. anybody u.s. tried to build something, a building or a business, they wake up to 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 up and gave her some heat, i hope. she said she seemed dubious. with my questions she returned more questions. john: you would not answer the question. >> she wanted to know 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 call at the name they're less likely to go on these witch
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hunts john: well, undercover cameras. one of the more famous ones, julia roberts won an oscar 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 will have to have a hysterectomy at the age of 20. john: this was about a chemical leaked from a california power plant that was supposedly causing cancer. but it turned out it probably wasn't causing cancer. the california cancer registry studied cancer rates in that area and found no cancer in 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 to cancer. when you talk to experts in the field they go, really, smoking is the only thing you can do to change your genetic makeup.
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if you're going to have cancer 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 their real erin brockovich some credit after she and her lawyer boss were criticized calling me a corporate shell. i invited her on the program and she came. john: californians have to pay more for electricity to pay off all of these lawyers. 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 process from the beginning to the end, it was a willful egregious intentional contract -- contact. they knew that that chemical was a poison. john: the chemical is a poison, but for the record a steady at 50,000 people who worked at the power plant and were exposed more and were healthier than average.
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so the media cells that, lawyers get rich, everyone pays more for electricity. >> chlorine 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 become storytellers. they find a villain and said that this princess in the castle story and then work backwards and get the evidence from there. the evidence is really there, so they started relying on twitter to prove 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-proof, but we are listening to opinions. john: there was actual backlash. they have some fact. >> some kids, 14-year-old spirit take there followers. there was no backlash. it fits their narrative. a crowbar it and. john: a sample, the media freak
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out. >> the new winner is facing 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 internet. $1 began tweeting, ms. america is a terrorist. john: fierce backlash. >> i look at woman at that she has zero followers, little kid. if you look up i hateebabies you will find dozens of kids saying that. john: twitter is full of rhetoric. what is the media do this? >> there are a million theories, but culpability is not sexy on tv. john: irresponsible. >> even though it is what made our culture great, it is to we are is a nascent -- nation. it makes people feel better to say it is not their fault, victim of circumstance. john: one last example about media people wringing there hands about victims is that media concern about kids being vote -- bullies. >> this kind of bullying is on
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the rice, by one ount as many as one in three kids being 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 assumed it was just part of schools. now at least there is awareness. i bet there is less. a former teacher jet a dire -- jedediah bila says this is an example of the media doing something right.3 >> i like thii. i saw cases of bullying. john: elementary school. >> elementary, school, college. it is a real roblem. you have kids to not only have their grades suffer but contemplate the idea of hurting themselves. stories and in his work is ultimately commit suicide. when it comes to legitimate cases a bullying the media and media personalities that have a platform can highlight cases and say, for example, there was a girl in queens.
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in may and read a story about a girl who did commit suicide as a result of bullying. it turned out that the administration was not doing proper follow-up and the parents to try to reach the administration to look into the problem. that is the kind of journalistic coverage that can help the issue in may because parents who ordinarily are not to sound into this issue to say, hold on. let me ask mike to some key questions. let me get to the school and make sure everything is okay. john: what about the media always saying it is on the increase. they don't know. >> in some cases the media can create victims and label things as bullying and really serious that are not necessarily. but there are cases where it is serious, particularly now with the internet age where we have facebook and twitter and cyber bullying, schools have a responsibility. john: and overweight tv anchor was praised 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 kids and should take care of herself, she complained about
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his bullying. >> there are children who don't know better, who did e-mails. as critical as the one i received more in many cases even worse, each and every day. the internet 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 a bees sting. how serious is this problem? millions of kids. let's quantify. john: hundreds of americans are killed. >> let's quantify the people who were not. when you bubble a child like that and put a protective layer and coddled them they're not prepared for the real world. john: now we have the internet, and anemone which lets people
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believe more. >> inevitably when you are arguing with someone like this guy who called arafat and she is fat, by the way. john: did not even call arafat, the wake. >> he should feel bad. 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 what you think. coming up. >> cupcakes for sale. john: i held the bake sale, a racist bake sale. >> that is not right. >> ou got to be on your -- john: also today, what does it mean to be poor in america? >> at tv. >> television. john: air-conditioning? >> yes,. john: cable-tv?
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♪ john: $7.205 per hour. that is the federal minimum
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wage. could you live on that? have you? what amount of pay is reasonable at what point is is so low that if you work for that you are a victim? >> people got bills. you know, child payment, car insurance, utilities. you know, 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. california 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. this, but he is president of the ayn rand institute, and we notice of this person ayn rand
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was. hugest advocate selfishness? >> i'm advocating that everyone should be self interested. there are many people out there who are interested in working for these rates. what happens when we set the minimum 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 who will never find a job. you why those people? young, inexperienced, teenage, inner-city youth who are now excluded completely from the work force and will never learn skills and get the experience necessary for making a hundred dollars an hour. john: how are they excluded? >> because if they can only produce $5 an hour, no one will employ thee at $10 per hour. no onn will lose on the employees that they hire. john: and the restaurant
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lobbyists ran this ad. minimum wage. why robots could soon replace fast food workers demanding a @%gher minimum wage. >> we are actually seeing is. if you drive up the cost, what restaurants will do, they still need to make their profit, keep the price of their products cheap. they will replace people with technology. john: mcdonald's response i thought was interesting. they came out with as simple budget, and a free comprehensive money management tool to providing 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 making this kind of money people came to this3 country with -- 100 years ago people lived on much less than this.
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they sent there kids and got an education and rose up. john: people do around the world >> most people around the world live on much, much less. the government has no role in, you know, dictating -- john: our government has decided it does. >> it sure has, and as a consequence you have seen youth unemployment in this country close 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 is unachievable. >> many people achieve 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 form of income. this should be left for the
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marketplace. let -- left to negotiations. john: affair 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 like they were starving. we make it more expensive. we are doing is not just, you know, violating their 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 unemployment. john: listen to this more serious protester who presents the victim message, and this persuades people. >> some people work 80 hours a week and cannot make ends meet or have no time for anything else. all they do is work all week. john: all they do is work all week. nobody -- >> nobody knows anything. john: don't we or it -- of the
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poor ssmething? >> no, we don't. john: i feel i owe as an individual. >> then you as an individual can help them out, but they are not asking for your help. they're not trying to negotiate a better salary. what they are asking is for the state to bring coercive power and force you to help them, force employers to help them. john: thank you. yaron brook. coming up, our black people victims in america? do i victimize them further if i run this race is to bake sale? >> we have different prices here. if you are asian, and dollar 50. if you're white, and dollar. if you are latino or black, if you are latino or black, $0.50. ♪ from the classic lines to the elegant trim in each and every piece,
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state-required segregation, then continuing racial discrimination but the author of "backlash" offers that this focus on the past is terrible for blacks. ca says they should stand up against destructive progressive tyrants to promote victimhood. distractive progressive tyrants. >> progressive policies are harming the black community, failing 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 see them as victims. they are not victims. that is a narrative that the left uses all the time to promote their big government agenda. they don't want to promote liberty, personal responsibility . vapor vote --, a bigger governmt john: you went to the naacp annual summit and heard a lot about victimhood. >> throughout the entire meeting
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john: every speech? >> 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 racist, as verses them. if you are black you don't stand a chance. john: at that same naacp conference where you are not allowed to speak should point out, al sharpton marked -- mocks people who say the election of president obama means that america is past racism. >> those that were saying that never was profiled in a department store. those that 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 prevalent 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 this narrative. don't be afraid to be called a racist or a sellout, of the different names. if you believe in liberty and want to advance our country forward, i implore all americans to speak out. john: the stock to let the killing of trade on martin. the president said this could have been my son. it could have been his son. >> he injected himself into this and made about a racial issue when, in fact, it had nothing to do with race. john: we don't know that it had nothing to do about race. >> the fbi investigation concluded that. zimmerman was not convicted. so clearly it was not about race. unfortunately early on we had people who promoted it as our pop race. that is what domineered the headlines. john: and a producer at nbc -- surprise, surprise -- clearly had black victimhood in line -- in mind when he edited the nine month one call. here's the actual call.
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>> this guy looks like he is up to no good or something. it is raining. he is just walking around looking about. >> okay. this guy, is the white, black, or hispanic? >> he looks black. john: the editor took up the dispatcher asking, is the white, black, hispanic, was left just this. >> this guy looks like he is up to no good. he looks black. john: look, and television, we always -- maybe he was just -- >> no, that was just very inappropriate and the wrong thing to do. anything about race is emotional and it drives the headline. eerly on with this case, this investigation, it was always about race when, in fact, it wasn't. john: seventh blacks been victims in america? >> years ago, john. black individuals did not have access to education, housing, jobs. times have changed, and we don't live in that era anymore.
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john: let's talk about 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 wrong 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 university of machinelike i applied -- johnn not prrudly hurt others. they say they help some. >> when i applied to the university of michigan and a point system 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.
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you're black, as bennett, are 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 sued over this intricate knowledge of the suureme court and won. >> i did. john: affirmative action still lives. >> the supreme court said that race preferences cannot be used in a mechanical way.3 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 applicant and they are equal, i probably would take the black person figuring this person had may be to overcome something in the past. what is wrong with that? >> i think that our decision making should be colorblind. i think 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
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privileges that i have. there are three unintended viitims of these policies. the people who get a preference to get into college and don't need or to get a job and don't need it and the credentials of unquestioned. john: us talk about that. he sent us this video of a conversation with a 16-year-old girl. she has top grades, perfect s.a.t. scores, and she is against affirmative action. >> this college, racial tension and racial division because the white people going to say, 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 got in because of what she looks like and not because she is qualified john: i have heard that before. how can you ever trust that this doctor deserves to be a doctor. >> these policies did not exist among we would love the people
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in positions that allow lives and their hands are there because of their merit. john: other victims, you say, are people who get the preferences and do well in school. >> correct. people who are qualified to get into a second-tier schools are bound to because of preferential 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, and they feel horrible. they don't feel successful. we would be better off having kids go where they're prepared to, whether qualifications say they're ready to go and graduate and get a degree in feel like a success. john: the third category is this message of victimhood. >> yes. the race hustlers of the world, and jesse jackson, al sharpton. john: if you're told you're a victim, you start to act like it >> exactly. you act like a victim.
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you become a victim. and it becomes an us versus them type of mentality which i know you talked about earlier. john: to raise people's consciousness about affirmative action, 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 and blacks just $.50. >> that is not right. >> you have to be out of your mind. >> that is stereotyping. john: it is. >> that is not right. john: it is the same principle. >> you got their attention. let me give you a quick -- john: we had a conversation people were saying, i had not thought 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 special treatment. so if he was someone that could do it and be successful, anyone
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♪ john: welfare is supposed to help people in need, give destitute people a chance to get back on their feet. that is not what usually happens , former welfare recipients team -- star parker. what you mean? >> what has happened is the poor have been conditions to adopt a
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slave mentality. i don't on myself and and not free. it is sad in a free country that we are even calling ourselves pork. i got caught up in it, and a lot more people are today because they goodies are getting much broader and more expensive to the taxpayer. john: people who get government aid often say the solution to their problem is more government aid. here is what i was told outside a food kitchen in harlem. >> poverty stinks'. >> give us more jobs and opportunities. john: government should just created job. >> create jobs. >> create more jobs. john: more food stamps. >> mar foods cents. >> more welfare. >> more welfare. john: oo and on. the impressions that goods 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 dependent commit taxpayer dependence and no one will even know it. housing for the poor has improved when it is come to what
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lay it -- what they look like. 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 interviewed here uses his food stamp card to buy lobster and sushi. >> hundred dollars a month. >> thank you for shopping with us. >> just like that. >> please remove our bags. >> all paid for by our wonderful tax dollars. john: he had no interest in getting a job. >> not something that appeals 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.
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it was not until the christian 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 outside welfare office i was this -- surprised the find that admitted what she does leads people to death not bother to look for work . you end human-resources encourage people to be independent? %-john: 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. john: 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.
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mike case worker is the one that told me if anyone ever asked to 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 aspiring actress and lives in a poor neighborhood in los angeles made this video mocking the welfare system. >> go to california. i need some money. >> free food. >> mama says she can't take me to school. >> we get free 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 check. welfare reform, you get pregnant at 14, 15, 16, you get a check and a housing voucher to move out of your parents setting.
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it is sad. john: you think a 14 year-old girl says i will get pregnant because i'm going to get this monthly check? >> i think that what we have done is incentivized this type of behavior. remember, these folks have been conditioned to believe they are victims. when you're 14 years old and lived in housing project because your mother was 14 when she got pregnant with you and you looked out at your options, 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. >> there are other things 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
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these cuts. [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 very part of the system that is now working. we declare war on poverty, and trillions of dollars later we have a collapse of marriage, communities that are in total ruin and you have the likes of those forces we just heard that keep insisting we continue this madness. john: thank you. we do seem to continue the madness. coming up, the truly hopeless deserved assistance, even i agree with that. government assistance? it creates more victims. ♪
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♪ john: are you isabled? so disabled you can't find work? i am a stutterer. today's disability laws existed and i began work, i wonder if i had overcome my problem or maybe just given 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
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say they are disabled. ted dehaven tudies this. >> a couple of years ago at walmart i over here a conversation between two women and hear one say to the other, i could take a pay cut or i could just go for disability. it really struck me as an analyst to dell's into various government programs. she spoke of that as if it was an either or. i went home and looked at it. the numbers have exploded. 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 people are working at home, less manual labor. >> exactly. so how could this band all this more money for disability and have these people applying. john: when you say all these peopll applying, you have the cato institute chart that shows the money spent over the last 50 years. people say, well, when the economy gets better and then it
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goes down. 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 is showing up now. for parents 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 my and disabled. as they become adultt, the first thing they're being taught is don't work. disadvantaged or they are or are not. john: disabled used to mean paralyzed. a severe injury. now it means what? depression, back pain. >> is like any other government program. you start off with good intentions and it becomes something it was never supposed to be.
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the original disability insurance program was supposed to benefit those ages 50 to 64 as basically a transition into regular retirement. since the 1980's u.s. in a 300 percent increase in awards for back pain, mental issues, what they call non exertion of restrictions. i am going to my chiropractor tomorrow with a pinched nerve, compressed disk and 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: one other reason more people collect, lawyers make big bucks promoting them. >> if you are disabled or can't work you need social security disability benefits, but don't try getting the money around. >> we help people get disability benefits.
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>> it is important that you act now. >> 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 for non lawyers to represent people in appealing a claim. they hire a bunch of cheap non lawyers and such and rushed people through the system, 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.
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>> now is time to have occurred and take responsibility for reactions in that year life the way it should be live. john: live your life the 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 this idea from the kids you saw. >> the idea from working with youth. it started in ohio, working 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 say to these kids, like you live like this? >> very straight up with me. and sometimes he did not have a way to go. decided to use the music the 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: and do you really think this will make a difference? it is hard to think that music could make a difference. >> this is medicine and music. yes, given the chance and guarantee it will make a difference. the kids will come back and say,
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i am so glad you spoke to us this way because a lot of people are not doing it. you keep it really does. you keep it straight with us, and we love it. john: thank-you. your signs are directed to the black community, but i should be clear that the show is not singling out minorities. most so-called victims in america are white people, and many are affluent. caroline biden, joe biden's niece, was arrestee recently for throwing 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. give me a break. america succeeded because it was founded by people who were the opposite of victims, people with great, overcoming obstacles is the route to prosperity and happiness. so three cheers for dr. anthony atkins and for all of you
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fighting to be anything but victims. that is our show. see you next time. ♪ o'rielly's interview. no super bowl here but tonight on huckabee -- >> let's get immigration reform done this year. >> honor what has been a history of legal immigration in this country. >> republican leaders join the president to campaign for amnesty. but who's asking law enforcement what they need? and -- >> better for you? >> movie star scarlett johansson stands up for her believes. is she the new face for peace in the middle east? >> plus, super bowl mvp drew brees on football, leadership, and community service. ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee.

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