let's talk about the growth of the program ira, i want to start with you. the food stamp budget has more than doubled in five years. $30 billion in 2007, to $74 billion in 2012. is that reasonable? does that make sense? and can we afford it? >> no, i -- i think it's unreasonable, and it's gotten to the point where the "new york times" is writing about drug addicts taking their food stamps to bodagas where they can be traded for cash, where the biggest problem in the nation facing people isn't hunger, it's obesity. >> but aren't most of the people on food stamp people who are low income and who need the money? >> well, i think the -- the challenge is to grow the economy so those people have jobs. these arguments sound to me like the arguments that happened in the 1990s over welfare reform, and then there was a bipartisan effort lead by bill clinton who promised to end welfare as we know it, and there were similar dire warnings about the effect happened. >> but if you are talking about growing the economy, some reports say that forever $1 goes out in food sta

. >>> day three of talks on ira is nuclear program. >> we have the late fest europe, including back on the streets, convicted fighters. >> and good news for once from the irish economy, agriculture is booming, and yes, ther they y are buffaloes that they're farming here. >> it's being described as a disaster on a massive scale. the philippine red cross aid its getting reports that 1200 people have been killed. 1,000 of those are in city home to 220,000 people. as you can see here it was hammered. buildings have been flattened, power poles scattered as far as the eye can see. you can see cars stacked on top of each other. the entire town covered in water three and a half meters deep. and here is the scene from the island of cebu. the country is doing all it can. >> we're opening as many stores as we can so the people can access the food. there is so the looting that is going on, and we deployed the army as much as we can. and trying to secure water and basics. >> what sort of response effort is being put into place given the scale of the devastation and the logistical difficulty getting

while there are strong elements of conservatives in kennedy's program, you can easily exaggerate it. >> iraennedy was planting the seeds of large government spending, medicare, medicaid, war on poverty and so forth? do you think that was part of kennedy's routine? >> absolutely not. >> are you asking me? >> ira. >> absolutely not. i think that's wishful thinking by some of the liberal aides to kennedy and historians that came afterwards. during the three years of kennedy's administration, people came to him with all these plans for extravagant government spending and he said, no. his priorities were free trade and the tax cut. it just didn't happen during the kennedy administration. and that's for a reason. >> michael, kennedy talked a lot -- he had his run-in with business, he had his run-in with the steel business. i get that. and i think that was one of his worst moments, trying to jawbone prices. but after that, michael, i think the guy really did revert back to this supply-side conservative. he was -- i think temperamentally he was fixly conservative -- >> his sense of irony is crucial

programs online at booktv.org. >> we continue with the recognition of president kennedy's assassination in 1963. up next, ira stoll argues kennedy's buildup of the military during the cold war and his free trade and tax cuts to bolster economic growth is examples of the president ideologies on the conservative side. "jfk, conservative" is his book and this is just under one hour. >> thank you for having me. when i first arrived in washington come as august 1995. and my friend lived near here let me stay on his couch until i found a place of my own. and he was quite kind to offer me his couch for an open-ended period of time and he was quite generous and he or his roommates were not quite so kind to give me the key to the house. and i often had some time to kill in that lovely august weather before he got home from work. and we have a distinguished crowd with other authors here and other newspaper men and women as well. ms. account people here in the event had friendship had friendship that lasted more than 20 years and my parents are here and my brother and sister-in-law are here. and i want to particularly

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big a domestic spending program as we got under johnson just because he had, you know, he had had a first term, and there was, there were just very few signs of it, if any. >> hi, ira. >> hi, kate. >> so my question for you is i'm curious what you think the formative influences were for jfk's conservativism. and i know you mentioned his catholicism which is, obviously, probably a big one. and you also mention his, you know, personal wealth and his background. but i'm just sort of curious whether you think there are sort of real sort of ideological conservativism as opposed to just some of these kind of formative influences, you know, whether you saw evidence of that in his writings or in his, you know, his conversations. >> are -- yeah. well, you know, i think the best clues we have are these speeches where he talked about the individual versus the state and god given rights. this' the closest -- that's the closest here got to a kind of comprehensive statement that went beyond, you know, we need more missiles or we've got to send a man to the moon. i haven't mentioned the moon shot, but that was, i think, really more part of a cold war battle with the soviet union.

big a domestic spending program as we got under johnson just because he had, you know, he had had a first term, and there was, there were just very few signs of it, if any. >> hi, ira. >> hi, kate. >> so my question for you is i'm curious what you think the formative influences were for jfk's conservativism. and i know you mentioned his catholicism which is, obviously, probably a big one. and you also mention his, you know, personal wealth and his background. but i'm just sort of curious whether you think there are sort of real sort of ideological conservativism as opposed to just some of these kind of formative influences, you know, whether you saw evidence of that in his writings or in his, you know, his conversations. >> are -- yeah. well, you know, i think the best clues we have are these speeches where he talked about the individual versus the state and god given rights. this' the closest -- that's the closest here got to a kind of comprehensive statement that went beyond, you know, we need more missiles or we've got to send a man to the moon. i haven't mentioned the moon shot, but that was, i think, really more part of a cold war battle with the soviet union.

ira. everything became the need to save without paying tax. however many of the older programsll available and may be the angle might help you could have an annual prize tied to savings bonds to help the government balance its budget anyway. >> we are big believers in the savings bond program. it has sort of fallen out of fashion. but they pay well over 100 basis points compared to i think my savings account is paying five basis points so there are five very good products with no fees and it doesn't matter if you have had a bad credit history or bad history with the banking system, there are tens of millions of americans who cannot open a banking account or savings account that they can buy savings. so i think it's from another fashion and there is no budget left again but there is a powerful opportunity and to kind of extrapolate this to the slightly bigger level the message that the government is sending i like that observation that we've lost this idea being a country of theft. when the federal government were telling us that we should buy a savings bond, there was an implic

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people got savings bonds but after that say that shifted to the ira if they could afford to put money away. however many of these older programsailable and maybe the lottery angle might help. you can have an annual prize tied to savings bonds. try to help the government balance its budget in a way. >> well, we're big believers in the savings bonds program. it's sort of fallen out of fashion, but inflation protected bonds are paying -- compared to i won't say the name of my bank. i think my savings account is paying five. there are good savings product with no fee finance doesn't matter if you've had a bad credit history or bad history with the banking system. there are tens of billions of americans who cannot open a bank account or a savings account but they can buy savings bonds. i think it's fallen out of fashion. unfortunately there's no marketing budget left for the saving bond program. i think the it's a powerful opportunity. to extrapolate at slightly bigger message. the government is spending. i like the observation we lost the idea of being a country of thrift. when john wayne and bob hope and the federal government we