direction is that we need to relax the standards or the economy will start to have no choice but to expaproam to the degree we have. it is unaffordable. it is untenable, is not? >> food stamps are not expected to be contributing to our long-term death of deficit. neil: the amount of money that we are committing, and the top that we are talking about, you're right about the improvement and tings wil snap back into place when the economy and the covery snaps back into place. but right now it is untenable. >> in terms of relaxing standards, some of this is -- for example, someone ill have to qualify for work in order to ge this. that seems like a good policy to me. >> i agree with that, but there's a lot of pride fraud in the program and thats indisputable. and the people on both sides have their own opinions. let me finish. you will from bth sides want to help the poor out. everyone wants to help the poor out. help them, give them a job. the problem is there is abuse of the system that is being underreported and understated by the democrats whor basically saying that it's nonexistent. i to

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the valuation range up to 13 to $14 and say group op is expa expanding beyond daily deal e-mails ande in local commerce. >> we got 3 m getting an upgrade to a buy. >> all right. target increased a whopping 17% up to 150 bucks from 128 about 21% higher than now. firm thinks organic growth, capital allocation and margins may surprise to the upside which would accelerate epf growth above consensus. >> urban outfitters announcing improved store sales. >> stock up to 37 bucks, basically same-store sales up mid single digit percentage. they posted a decline and warned about discounting. had this was a $45 stock in summer hard to cheer but still today up a little bit. >> somewhat under the radar and under water today, avanir pharmaceutical tanking. >> when a stock is down 24% to $3.25 it gets on your radar real quick. bad phase clinical 2 data, an ms drug that did not meet the points. downgrading, cutting their price target to 5 which is still $1.75 more than the stock is now. take that for what it's worth. one drug and not doing well this is what happens. >> we don't want to end on a note

lynn, there is that expa . >> they looked at 18-29-year-olds in that poll, and they found pretty muchthe board a loss of confidence in obamacare or affordable care act. i think they polled it both ways just as a test and in the administration and congress in general. so i think it's just a very -- it shows a very tough place for the administration to be in. jon: jonah, this is a group that voted almost as a bloc for president obama a couple of times. what does it say that they don't, apparently, have the confidence in him or at least in his signature law? >> look, i think it's, in my opinion, it's a long time in coming. as i've been saying for a long time, he visited college campuses more often than a red bull delivery truck because he desperately needed the youth vote to get elected and make his presidency seem cool and all of that. and the real problem for him is, look, his numbers may go up among young people before the end of his presidency, but he's never going to get back that sort of cool image that he once had because it's very difficult to get that image back. that's somethin