obama for what he says is a dismantling of welfare reform. u.s. census bureau reports that more than a hundred million americans are now receiving some form of federal welfare. if you take a look at the chart the number has been rising steadily since 2009. art laugh eri laugher is the architect of reaganomics. thank you for joining us. >> this is a huge increase for people that don't work or work very little. there are a lot of categories that are not inc those numbers. what it really means is that, you know, if you pay people not to work, and if you tax them if they do work, you know you're going to get a lot of people not working. the way to see this number clearly is imagine we have a two-person world, farmer a and farmer b, and that's all there is in the world, bill nothing else.