dr. mark sawyer who teaches political science at ucla. all right, doctor, where am i going wrong here. >> wrong on some points. money throwing out cash payments that could be used in casinos, et cetera, but also really most of it is healthcare that doesn't really help lift people out of poverty but keeps them well while they are there and keeps them from getting sick. the other thing is that most of what you call welfare doesn't actually go to the poor. a lot of those programs are aimed at, you know, working poor people, working people and even the middle class, so most of the money that you are talking about isn't being spent or funneled to the poor. very little of it is going to them in cash. poverty hurts education. >> bill: you know as well as i do that subsidizing food and subsidizing housing and subsidizing health costs allows an american then to save whatever money they make, driving a taxi or whatever it may be, in a job that they are trying to move up on, that's what the entitlement culture is and it does go directly to the folks