videos for your media project c.e.o. don carty dot com. john are in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture house republicans again passed paul ryan's budget yesterday and under it forty six million americans on food stamps will see massive cuts to their benefits over the next decade is this really the borehole way to govern the nation by stealing from the poor and getting to the rich also mitt romney may be the republican nominee for president this fellow republicans are less than thrilled romney really when americans vote if he can't win over those in his own party that are more united and won't liberal and just weeks after the anniversary the focus human disaster more bad news is coming

out of that crippled nuclear power plant what are officials now saying about the possibility of another nuclear disaster one that would be even more devastating and chair noble. you need to know this tuesday night house republicans again passed multimillionaire congressman paul ryan's radical budget for the romney rich coincidentally republicans used the same deem and pass tactic to pass the budget they had criticized democrats for trying to use back in two thousand and ten to push through obamacare the ryan budget deemed it passed republicans can now get to work set a new and much lower funding levels for a whole variety of social welfare programs. on the one million american students who stand to lose their pell grants and the millions of poor and disabled americans who could lose their medicaid health insurance coverage if those americans on food stamps would suffer the most under republican budget the forty six million

americans on food stamps will see thirty three point two billion dollars in cuts over the next ten years to their benefits and you eligibility requirements will force millions of americans further into desperation before they came in qualify for federal food assistance associated press reports of three million people lose their benefits this year under the ryan plan in a letter to the house agriculture committee which oversees the food stamp program the u.s. conference of catholic bishops urged lawmakers to protect essential programs that serve poor and hungry people over subsidies that assist large and relatively well off agricultural enterprises the welfare recipients are expected to take it out of the the or republican budget giant trans national oil and agribusiness corporations get to keep their corporate welfare is this really the moral way to govern a nation take from the poor and give to the rich here to offer his take john garrett senior writer and catholic outreach coordinator at faith in public life

john welcome harry to peter thank you thanks for joining us it is always i've always felt that the core of christianity was matthew twenty five it's the only place in the bible where the disciples actually say to jesus how do we get to heaven hang out with you and you says feed the poor. among other things you know feed the poor in water to the thirsty versus those who are in prison you know clothed with the naked which today would defeat you know how's the homeless and heal the sick and they all freak out because they say wait a minute we've never seen you hungry so we're doing and races as you did on the least of these you know the story of how is it that a party is the republican party which panders my word not yours to christian voters and catholic voters in particular. can do the exact opposite of the core teachings of christianity and yet still be you know calling this you know what i'm saying it truly is stunning i mean representative ryan seems to want to have this debate you know he specifically time and time again references this catholic faith when he

talks about the budget you know and as we saw last week he's really been taking a sunday school if you will by over sixty catholic theologians catholic nuns priests and just this week of addition of as you mentioned have had to explicitly call him out on these proposals i mean they're deeply unchristian they're deeply immoral and it seems like representative ryan is more faithful to the teachings of iran who's talked about as his hero than the actual gospel message of compassion and justice of the common good so i would say the representative ryan really needs a sunday school lesson and to go back and think about deeply those aspects of his faith tradition that he seems to be ignoring for to promote a radical economic agenda that's really at the federal to the common good john boehner. the quote i want them to take a bigger look at the bigger look is if we don't make these decisions these programs want exist and then they'll really have something to worry about. you take them yeah i mean the catholic bishops have been very explicit in their letter to the

since the house committees and they said look this is a problem this is a morally indefensible budget i don't understand how john boehner another catholic another prominent catholic who's very proud of his catholic faith can justify these kind of cuts look we need to take our budget deficit seriously we need to have a frank debate but there's a right way and a wrong way to do it and the struggling middle class the poor they have not caused our budget deficit they're not causing our debt you know two wars on a credit card. unsustainable tax cuts for the wealthy and i think we need broader values debate about these issues how do we in fact it seems to me that we actually need to be framing all of these things as a values debate not necessarily a religious one although if that if those are the terms that they want to define service certainly it will birth control what's you know. put it in religious context. how do you think that's best done. well i think you know broader value a broader values debates means let's talk about issues of economic justice let's

talk about poverty you know for example catholic bishops back in this is way back in one thousand nine hundred another ryan month senior john ryan who is a progress a populist catholic priest who is a noted writer on inequality and social justice helped the bishops write a really at the time a radical proposal for economic justice that really laid the groundwork for the new deal i don't think most progressive snow that we need to resurrect that tradition that republicans have claimed to own the values debate in recent years and that's that's not really in keeping with our our tradition in terms of how christians and jews have it how to approach these issues in public life so i think you're starting to see the conversation change but we need to do more so the catholic church has been historically at least in the twentieth century particularly at the forefront of many very progressive social issues absolutely and you know i remember one when george bush started his wars it was it was pope john paul the second we spoke out

explicitly against those that's right and and a number of other policies and yet. there's this kind of cherry picking that goes on in on the right when it comes to specifically catholic teaching do you think that the church that the current pope and the king and the current. senior levels of the church are going to push hard on these things sort of you know i hope so i mean in recent weeks the bishops have been the loudest on issues of contraception religious liberty and those are important issues to discuss but i think many moderate and progressive catholics like myself you know are a bit frustrated with the bishops in terms of the moral outrage that they summon seems to be on sexuality issues we need bishops to speak boldly on these issues you know back in the one nine hundred eighty s. when ronald reagan was promoting an agenda of trickle down economics the bishop spoke out very powerfully against that we need to bring that back today i think you know there's two hundred sixty districts in the country so we can't paint the bishops with a broad brush and unfortunately you have cultural warrior bishops that tend to get

significant media attention and i think that kind of distorts the understanding of what the catholic witness in public life is but you know i hope the dishes will continue there they're strong pushback on this ryan budget. i met. thanks that makes it so it's great to be age of maybe not paul ryan's budget shreds a social safety net to give three trillion dollars worth of tax breaks to the romney rich in america that's not courageous and it's not moral for more on this topic and some of the big stories of the day it's time to turn over to the long liberal ron paul. resist time for the lone liberal rumbalara panels and i will ron deputy editor of the daily caller and judson phillips so he director of the tea party he party nation is not. tea party nation is one group and then i'm also the associate director for the tea party dot net the tea party donna ok great ok you guys just

heard my interview with john kiran and. wonder in your take on this whole issue of you know the war rally of the ryan budget how can how can republicans defend a budget that takes away from the poor and gives three trillion dollars to the romney rich. well without offering a full throated defense of the romney budget i mean what do you do about entitlements and the trustees of medicare and social security that you lift the cap so security ok he's a tax you look to have exactly you led to a stratosphere. where he's right now. on the first hundred as you know the first hundred thousand six hundred dollars of income you pay social security taxes and if you make a million dollars on the next nine hundred thousand basically you pay not one penny right why shouldn't bill gates pay the same income tax rate as you and me and anybody else with regard not even tax so security tax rate and that would solve the social security problem and if you allow medicare to negotiate drug prices if you

solve the medicare problem using the force of the government pushed on health care costs is one thing but. to say i mean the trustees of the program say that it's going bankrupt it's going bankrupt at a rapid clip somebody actually believes that you can tell your way of course you do it with bill clinton was here do you think you would say that we can talk your way out of this how we certainly know president obama has called for this in bill clinton's interest that lift the cap on the so security tax so that bill gates is paying the same rate as his secretary and it will solve the problem social security and medicare is not entitle is not a spending in the of not in the immortal words of margaret thatcher the prob with socialism is sooner or later you run out of other people's money what are you gonna do jack the rates up to eighty percent ninety percent right you know roosevelt at one point in one thousand nine hundred four had a one hundred percent tax rate the secret court declared unconstitutional we but he did it for a guy didn't know that we had a ninety one percent top tax rate in the united states for the better part of thirty years and for another decade and a half with a seventy four percent top tax rate that period of time that forty five fifty year

period was the only period of time in the history of the united states from its founding more than fifteen years without a major bank panic or a major stock market collapse the reason why many economists are saying is because that you know people could get rich they could get thirty times their employee rich but they couldn't get romney rich fabulously rich and because it wasn't easy to get a lot of money there was a lot of gambling with that money and stabilize the markets ok i think that we should roll back the reagan tax cuts that's still not going to solve it this is just a huge massive problem your listeners can talk about ways of doing entire movement reform that aren't in the ryan budget we need to have literally all of the new america foundation you know people on the left talking about you know technological innovations a way to stimulate that through government but to say that you're going to solve their packs agree they're going to spread of aggressive budget i mean they they laid out you know corporations back when reagan came into office corporations are paying thirty five percent of the cost of running our government it's now eleven percent ok what's wrong with that what's wrong with that's too much government

spending. government spending right now as a percentage of g.d.p. is lower than it's been sixteen years and it needs to be a lot lower we are spending are so. we need to turn ourselves into the libertarian paradise of somali no we need to turn ourselves into the constitutional republic that our founding fathers had in mind for the federal government it only has a few things it's supposed to do so you want to fit their borders you want to go back before the civil war no i want the government to do what it is supposed to do i want to go back and start getting rid of back to my original question why is that when the catholic president come out and say you know we don't like contraception the republicans are all over it but actually this is all over when the catholic bishops say it's immoral what you're doing with this ryan budget problems don't talk about ok what do you want to talk about a wonder criticizing the budget but not of you know contraception i talked about all right there was one more valid to you than the other i mean this is the catholic church has a lot of opinions about a lot of things theology is catholic theology is enormously complicated subject. cherry pick here and there what you like here and there that gets into

a very difficult we will have to we'll have to debate this at another time you know we're out of time and i go there with more rubble right after the break. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old on the truth. i think i am going to get a sense that i was happening. and. he was kind of yesterday. i'm very proud of the world with its place.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so bleak you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here see some other part of it and realize that everything you saw. i'm sorry is a big issue. for . for.

all to magnetize long little of the battles i will run deputy editor of the daily caller and judson phillips associate director of the tea party got net let's get back to it first tell us what psychological projection is going for it you know whose idea you know people who are thieves constantly looking around figuring everybody trying to steal from them ok mitt romney i'm wondering last week he says it's obama who's waging a war on women. got a real war on women is being waged by the president's failed economic policies ok and then a few weeks back he said it's not the president that it's not the republicans who

are trying to take apart medicare polarized it all is that it's the president. three and a half years later he has failed to enact or even propose a serious plan to solve the crisis instead he has taken a series of steps that end medicare as we know it. he is the only president to ever cut five hundred billion dollars from medicare. first of all that's just plain old not true but any romney said this about president obama being out of touch this is because. we have a president who i think is a nice guy but he spent too much time at harvard perhaps or maybe just not enough time to actually work in the real world i think to create jobs in the private sector it helps to have had a job in the private sector. so so obama spent too much time in harvard romney went to harvard a year longer than obama did got two degrees from there not just one romney's now trying to deflect criticism about his dog seamus that he tied to the roof of his

car for twelve hour ride by pointing out that in his memoirs obama says that he dog me when he was nine years old and didn't like it didn't do it question is mitt suffering from psychological projection issues tom are you seriously accusing a major party candidate of trying to spin an issue no i'm asking if he might be mentally ill you're saying that mitt romney may be mentally ill based on what this looks to me like a projection of looks to me like he is he is taking the things that he is doing and he is suggesting that his opponent is doing when in fact is his opponent is not tom i don't have the same psychiatric expertise. ok all right discussion the democrats are right let's roll with the war on women i was a democratic talking point. they slipped up they got tagged for it they distance themselves from europe i mean it's not the democrats the democrats use this is the war on women talking point he was constantly often they had their advisor

democratic strategist hilary rosen come out she said something that could be interpreted as something that's very offensive to choose to make sure she said specifically and romney's never worked a day in her life yeah and and my colleague stephanie miller and romney made and cook who raised and romney before she was married. i called in to my colleague stephanie miller show and told the whole story of that you know i'm the maid who raised and romney yeah yeah it's amazing i mean it's like this is sort of the other side growing up so she was. she was very wealthy and she married a guy who's worth a quarter of a billion dollars a year i think the issue that they were discussing was working women and you know i you know i look you know i will let me flip this around if women if it's raising it raising a family raising kids is work and that's what romney is trying to say now. this is probably a fair deal of work and raising children you know yes even even with a maid in a nanny in a shop it's still work ok let's let's stipulate that then why is it that ever since

medicare was so scary was first passed one hundred thirty five why is it that every attempt by the democrats to extend that one hundred percent of work to moms who don't go to the workplace has been defeated by republicans but why is mitt romney mentally ill again why is it that the republicans don't want women to have equal access to the benefits of being in the workplace or when they choose to stay at home i've never heard a republican star but i don't i've never heard that either. social security where if you're a working mom if you're not if you're a stay at home mom and your husband dies you get half his benefits not all of his best but social security would have worked you get all of the benefits that social security is placed on what you contribute the amount of money that you contributed to the system but. my polite you know republicans refuse to acknowledge that there's any value associated with even stand up now mitt romney's trying to have it both ways but let's move along to drug testing here in this it looks like drug testing welfare recipients is actually costing money now maybe that was the plan

this is this study was done in florida rick scott down in florida owns a chain of companies that do drug testing and he's now the governor and they started drug testing people who were on welfare programs or any kind of relief and only two point six percent of those people actually failed the drug test which is way below the average for working people but it has cost the state one hundred eighteen thousand one hundred forty dollars more than they've saved by keeping people out of the program. what's the deal why are these big government republicans so fascinated with what's going on inside our bodies i don't know i don't know but i'll say this cost is irrelevant there's a separate issue here still thing we call the fourth amendment unreasonable searches and seizures if you are if you get pulled over on the side of the road and the cops want to check what's in your blood see if you've been drinking they've got to have a search warrant the same is true here you've got to have a search warrant see if a welfare recipient has. i'm with him this is my words this is my libertarian

streak coming out yes so so will yeah clearly the florida thing i don't know if that and put on the face of it it certainly looks like a disaster it's not cost effective at all you can certainly make the case i don't really have to actually to same philosophical objection to it as you do at the same time when it's not cost effective is a decent way of punishing people in the way of humiliating people for be important that they have to get some kind of government leave no i mean this country needs more guilt and shame about things and being out of it that there is a legitimate complaint ignoring the constitutional issue for a moment you're not backing away from but there's a legitimate complaint if i am forcing if i'm forced to give you my tax dollars in some form of benefit i think i do have the right to complain that you're blowing those tax dollars on an illegal substance or if if somebody is on food stamps and somebody on unemployment food stamps right there was the job. there need government assistance to survive and they get sick they get cancer they get so they get to

break their like would you cut off their food stamps because they got sick you know when you guys. know what's the what's the comparison almost it's a stupid question right if there was because usually with a certain illness. it's a self-inflicted illness how so every drug addict and because of my professional career i've dealt with a lot of drug addicts every drug addict voluntarily took that first toke of marijuana did that first line of coke to the rock there are more people in. who died from taking prescription drugs and i'm talking about abusing prescription drugs most of the painkiller while but i'll agree on one thing else and so it was a voluntary act of show up at a doctor's office with a broken foot and get put on an oxy coat on or a hot connor whatever you rush limbaugh would know the stuff i don't believe these drugs but. you have a lot of drug addicts in america did not start out as hippies with joints they started out as patients a lot of them started out as people who wanted to try marijuana because i hate him

and it's cool no it's a gateway drug it leads to other thing i would we are somebodies food because their drug addict they have a helpless should we treat them. treatment if you want to talk about treatment but treatment usually isn't a fine time it's just giving the money now i'm not suggesting that i'm suggesting that you know again something that i've always always opposed to drug addiction treatment should be covered there's a larger glisten i'm all for treatment programs for drug addicts but i think that's a separate issue here and again actually we're all on the same page about drug testing. welfare recipients well i don't think we're all the same page i'm totally opposed to it i think we're all opposed to it oh i think oh yeah well i thought you were going to use or no no no here i learned all that's left you know that let's let's change topics then on that. i'd like to come back to this war against violence against women the war against women and you know we talked about it a little bit but the sixty one co-sponsors in the sun it the the violence against

women act is going to be reauthorized this is the law for fourteen seventeen years some stange appeared out in ninety six when bill clinton was so it's been it's been around for a long time. chuck grassley is holding this thing up in part because it extends protections to women who are here illegally why republicans want to choose some women who it's ok to abuse who are great and other women who it's not ok to abuse rape. pretty hard. allegations there i just prove it but honestly i don't care what chuck grassley is holding it out i'm kind of happy that he is and he's holding it up because of his objections to illegal immigrant women and to get him to let this be innocent been the victims of sexual or physical violence that's fine but the reason i say i'm perfectly happy that he's holding it up i worked for twenty four years as a lawyer to as a prosecutor for steve's criminal defense lawyer the volga law is it's called in the legal community is probably one of the most abused laws that has ever been

created it in true the federal government intrudes into areas of state law that has no business it creates massive problems through mandatory arrest programs restraining orders that are given out faster than candy at halloween you know you can have somebody who you dated swear out a restraining order against you it'll be automatically granted they might not even show up in court and that stigma is going to go with you for the rest of your life so if you are what should we do about the fact that ninety nine percent of the time it seems violence abuse and people who start wars are men i mean you know this how do we deal with this testosterone problem well how are you going to have if it is the courts are going to have you been in the courts at least anecdotally i'd say it's much closer to eighty twenty on the violence and violence comes in only is fifty of the population the it is but men who are sometimes are victims of domestic violence won't call because they're male progeny of this new bill protects men as well it just doesn't matter they it's men and chuck grassley said objecting to that

as well it doesn't matter that they won't cause and but what if i let's cut across all of your wills about i'm sorry i have thirty seconds. very quickly i mean this is a law that has been on the books has always enjoyed large bipartisan support and is now having stuff about it including provisions to allow illegal immigrants to stay in the country longer no if they've been abused it what it says is. is that if a if a woman who is not going to tell you are a visa they get a. call to you ok you get it as a witness to crime until recently didn't have a t.b.i. until this is so this is a very he says but result this is it goes beyond that theory when it's supposed to last much longer so those so those women are legitimate targets so know what you just injected into the actual anger that once was no you're going to push past the violence against women act but then it gets whatever you know whatever they want in favor of the disaster all right sorry that this week carson friends made this

perhaps friday back to psychology had forty and mitt romney search for a vice president show tweeted romney has hired an advisor to do his v.p. search who should we choose we being presumably five news it's long been suggested that any republican nominee for president must win the fox news primary and which romney has done which. santorum has protested but will the eventual less president candidate candidate also have to win the bus in a fox news. i would actually disagree mitt romney won the what for calling the fox news primary to begin with i don't think their coverage has been critically slanted towards romney. but i mean certainly you would want somebody who is safe and who a lot of conservatives are going to rally behind i don't think fox news is going to have any real but it is a fox news reel got to go to one t.v. god bless the folks over at fox news they've been in the bag from it for

a long time santorum complained about it again which complained about it and i think a couple others did you know but for the for the v.p. search the primary they needed were the audience they need to worry about winning is the conservative base sitters i don't disagree with judson we'll thank you both for being with us tonight thank you charge here. a. you just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old i'm such a lived through it. i'm a confession i am a total get a trendsetter pile of crap and hip hop is that. it was kind of a bit yesterday. i'm very proud of the role that out she has played. the.

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