all thee on food stamps is a very easy way to make it smaller. e 14 different programs going on overlapping. >> i have a better solution. >> no, you don't like your solution. >> my solution is -- we can get the government off the backs and the necks of energy companies, as i have interviewed more people in the energy world. there is more energy combined in this country, shell oil, gas and coal than in the entire middle east combined. >> they're not going to complain there is a fracking problem in his neighborhood. >> he is seeing over it. >> and the polls show that most women wish they had the luxury to stay at home and raise their children. but what the vice president is talking about is not the luxury to stay home, it is doing it on other taxpayer's dimes, to get the subsidies in order to buy the health care plans. >> that is exactly what he is saying. >> not what he is talking about. >> the family of four. >> i agree. >> he is taking money from taxpayers to support -- to not work. >> real quick. >> if you stay home with children you know you ar

congratulations on finding your food stamp abuse bigfoot. that one guy you found is certainly not someone that the food stamp program itself would probably point to as its greatest success story but we make fun of you not for finding him but for pretending that he somehow represents literally millions of americans. i know i'm being purposefully hyperbolic. >> he is the representative of literally millions of americans. >> jon: sorry i meant hyper bolling. let's take you at your word. perhaps you are merely a watchdog for the american people and like watch dogs you do occasionally bark at burglars. for instance,, what is the waste, fraud, and abuse in the food stamp program? >> more than $3 billion has been lost to trafficking. fraud and overpayments each year. >> jon: that ain't nothing that is a will the and i imagine would you agree with me that $3 billion is a lot of money. >> you and i know numbers. i know you know numbers. i assume you know i know numbers. >> jon: okay, fine. [ laughter ] so knowing number and hating waist and fraud as y

staying on food stamps for 18, 24 months, that is ridiculous. that takes more than just trashing a program -- >> eric made a point. he said about can i get a new car. do you remember cash for clunkers. >> yes. >> yeah, you can get a new car. >> there are lots of programs that help subsidize people. >> let me throw another one out there, if i couldn't pay the mortgage on my house anymore, they bailed out how many owners. >> but they bail out banks too, eric. >> we're not for it. >> how about fixing the economy so you don't have to bail people out. >> well rngs you don't have to fix the economy, you have to fix the congress. there's a mow noly. >> we just can't afford all of that. we have to do it smarter. this is not a sustainable infrastructure. >> you just butt nd that up perfectly for under the circumstances. you can continue the conversation right now on twitter. trending on twitter six weeks in a row now. be sure to keep it up. make your voice heard again rnlts coming up, they went all in for president obama's obamacare, now union niezed oba

all that money you're seeing on food stamps is an easy way to make it smaller. 14 different programs going on, overlapping. >> i have a better solution. >> i don't like your solution. >> my solution is, if we could get the government off the backs and the necks of energy companies, as i have interviewed more people in the energy world, there is more energy combined in this country, shale, oil, gas and coal than the entire middle east combined. >> take us out. >> most women wish they had the luxury to stay at home and raise their children. but what the vice president is talking about is not the luxury to stay at home, it's doing it on other taxpayer's dimes. subsidies for families -- [ all talking at once ] >> if you stay home with children, you know you are working more than any of us who are working full time jobs. >> i know it's hard work, but look, she -- >> why describe it as not working and relaxing around? [ all talking at once ] >> what's more important? >> i love your daughter, she's a sweet heart. >> my husband and i built a lifestyle where we both had

in 2008 we spent around $39 billion on foo stamps or nutrition programs. in 2013, that number jumped 111%, $80 billion. should this be the case? >> it shouldn't the case. the argument that we have been in a recession for five years is getting a littl bit old when it comes to people still being on these entitlement programs. if i want is going to argue this guy isn't the example of the people abusing the system and most people are using the system properly, then why is it that when the republicans and conservatives try to cut 1% o of the food stamp budget in order to get rid of that waste, fraud and abuse, they throw a fit and say that we simply want to starve people? it is really important to keep in mind that there's -- abuse does go on and there are multiple instances of and it we rye to clean it up. yet the government set newspaper a way that entitles the people to continue to abuse -- >> hold on. >> i want to make the transition. i want to turn this. obviously we are spending a lot more on food programs. take a look at the proposed budget going forward

big corporations now depending on food stamps for the bottom line. we report, you decide. plus, it's obamacare versus is the free market and our liberty hangs in the balance. the supreme court slamming the gavel on companies opposed to obamacare for religious reasons suggesting they stop whine and start paying up if they don't like it. throw the report teaming up with unions into college sports watching the big game may never be the same. "cashin' in" spreading the truth starts right now. >>> hi everyone. i'm eric bolling. welcome to "cashin' in." our crew wayne rogers, jonathan honoring, michelle fields and juan williams welcome. we're living in a country where more and more are riding in the cart and fewer pulling the thing. here are the number even john stewart can't distort. in five years the federal government will hand out $14 trillion of your money at the same time nearly half of all americans pay no, no, federal income tax at all. america was once filled with proud workers and businesses eager to hire them, becoming a nation of freeloaders looking to get paid withou

this weekend with vintage cars and sit in for meditation on stamp with the funny or six ks and looked at the tv. my reasons for the season meaning to stuart moore still does indeed look physically at twenty one and if you see a piece of pumpkin into practice. the region that i'm huge on me. how i met in the nope no inside is open we did the nuggets shot the proposal will move out of it she buys them a busy busy day so some top level. my oh so does the north of the season. by cuba's to play in the monarchy. one species or two usually pauline checked in on itself was from the new teaching to be anymore yet i see this done in fiction that can be feed to keep the sas flight plane fly field fence. something needs between number is of type b since stated that more one of khan's and learning about the main competitor to them. likewise a breach of conditions which will begin in coming to maxine anyone outside of the funny what it meant the difference for the dpp promote nutrition and health care. the kitchen it's a good team on this cd and you see in these modern tv we found was that. it does

commented on an icy she joked as we go for dance the distinctive with its cars and sit in for meditation on stamp with the funny or six ks and looked at the tv. my reasons for the season meaning to stuart. most doctors and even physically. at twenty one and if you see a piece of pumpkin into practice. the region that i'm huge on me. how i met in the milk though its side is open we did he not been shown to you. for those who move out of it she buys them a busy busy day so some top level. my oh so does the north of the season. bike use to play in the monarchy one species to you too would pull a name checked in on itself was from the new teaching to be a new morning up at cedars got infection that can be feed to keep the sas flight plane fly field fence. something needs to clean number is of type b since stated that more one of khan's and learning about the name of benefit to them but closer to each of conditions which will begin in coming to maxine anyone outside was too funny. alston had three different street dpp promote nutrition and health care. the kitchen. i love to get in on base the game. a

a gallon of milk is almost $5. >> these people don't want to be on food stamps. they don't want to be poor. exactly one year ago, the rnc released this report, promising that republicans would change the way they talk about the poor. but one year later, we're still waiting. joining me now are congressman emanuel cleaver and salon.com's joan walsh. thank you both for being here. >> good to be here. reverend. >> congressman cleaver, almost half of food stamp recipients are children. how are republicans vilifying these kids? >> well, what they're doing is hoping that the american public will not be privy to factual information about the program. and if you add all the people you talked about, the disabled, the veterans, and so forth, it's a clear sign that the program is geared toward the needy. and what we find is that many of the republicans are focusing on the negative as opposed to the needy. and it is -- it's actually making me sick, because as of today, reverend, we have not had one single banker prosecuted for almost taking this country into the worst economic

remember the surfer dude that lives on food stamps, lives on your tax dollars to eat lobster.e'll check in with the winner of the florida 13. coming up, i'm going to see if i can get this surfer dude a job as "hannity" continues. >>> all right, welcome back to "hannity," my next guest is a california surfer who lives on food stamps, eats lobster and avoids work. he recently caught up with fox's jesse watters about his living situation, let's take a look. >> do you understand why people may not agree with your situation? >> just because my job is cooler than your job and people are a little more jealous. i think the food stamps give me an opportunity to focus on a career. >> you're an able-bodied guy. healthy, you can work. do you think you're gaming the system? >> no, why would i be gaming the system? i fit in the qualifications. >> all right, here to explain himself, surfer, jason. how are you doing? >> good, how about yourself? >> you're 29 years old. when is the last time you worked? >> yesterday. >> what did you do? >> i had band practice. >> but you don't get paid for ban

. >> using food stamps to buy ipads or cigarettes. >> you hear stories about people on food stamps going to vegas drawing money at casinos. >> jon: yes, you do hear all these stories. whether or not they are true or indicative of widespread abuse is not really the point here because you hear them. as a reporter on a news network it's your job to pass them along through your mouth hole. as your slogan says fox news. we read the chain mails your grandma gets. so -- other than gambling. what else have you heard people are doing wrong with their food stamps? >> a lady trying to buy dog food with food stamps. if you are getting food stamps the last thing you should be buying is soda. >> there's a thing there to get the junk food. >> people on welfare are going to disney land swiping the ebt card getting the big chicken legs. >> jon: without addressing the larger point of disney land's poultry being turkey not chicken but you are poor. and out of the goodness of our hearts we've given you a food starch. the least you could do is not spending it food that could we used as a weapon in the coming

money on food stamps than he would on a strong military or support for our troops. >> but the study shows that food stamps actually help lift families out of poverty. in 2012, food stamps lifted 4.9 million people from poverty, including, joan, 2.2 million children. >> yes. i mean, food stamps go to children. they go to elderly people. they good to veterans. i mean, dick cheney is talking about spending money on the military, but is ignoring the veterans and active military personnel are disproportionately now relying on food stamps. this is not something that president obama caused. even under president bush there was a sense that the recession was causing people to need food. and we did increase eligibility. and that was a good thing. this is also a stimulative thing we can do for the economy. the money that we put into the food stamp program immediately goes into grocery stores and goes into vendors' pockets and keeps kids healthier. so it's a crazy thing to attack. but they've been on this kick for a long time. ronald reagan took it back to our friend, talked about the young bucks buy

. >> woe rather spend the money on food stamps than he would on a strong military or support for the . >> jon: who used food stamps a bunch of moocher class dead beats. probably never worked a day in their lives. >> a lot of food stamps go to military families. military families more reliant on food stamps. over 100 million in food stamps at military grocery stores. [ laughter ] >> jon: shrewd move, obama taking food out of mouths of men and women in uniform and putting it back in their mouths. where is where america's best known dick really makes his mark. >> the whole thing is not driven by any change in world circumstance it's driven by budget consideration. >> jon: i'll tell you what you make dick dick changey be the secretary of defense there's no way he would cut the troop count by the 5.9% proposed. >> the budget we submitted to congress in the last few weeks calls for approximately a 25% reduction in force structure between now and 1995 and 1996. >> jon: yeah, because you would have to cut 25% troops because 5.9% cuts is for pussies. so when you were in the pebt gone, dick che

, analyst there saying, hang on, sorry about this, cowan and associates saying one in five walmart shoppers use food stampsuse half of walmart's revenues come progressry sales. cheryl: who is criticizing them? put think about it, if you're on food stamps and go to walmart you can feed your entire family because they keep prices low. i understand employees is different story but i mean people need to eat, i'm sorry. >> that is a good question. who is criticizing? i did some analysis here and looked at the blowback on walmart's disclosure. you will see, other media, i'm not going to cite the names, but other media say, yeah, walmart of course -- cheryl: evil company. >> same old-same old. walmart should have disclosed that its own workers were on food stamp as well. so that is where the criticism is coming in. without taking a sober look why walmart is doing this and if you, you know, walmart's financials for the last several years, if not, five, 10 yerkes they have been slowly moving into the grocery space, right? so that is the issue. adam: raises a huge issue, some americans don't have jobs pay them enoug

all of the money you are seeing on food stamps is an easy way to make it smaller. e 14 different programs going on, overlapping, overlapping. >> my solution is -- we could get the bovtment off the necks of interviews. there is mow entire middle east con behind. >> real question? >> most women thish had he this the luxury da gave they are company on other tax mayor's dime in order to bette the melt insurance. (talking over one another) >> if you stay home with children you know what you are working more than any of us who are working full-time jobs. >> wait a minute. they are paying for her to stay home. >> i know it's pardon work we are self. relaxings around. the why does -- woes more tonight i stay home off we both had to work. i couldn't, you do what you have do to do. we'll take a break, we right back. and coming up next here on "hannity." >> not that i want to punish, i want to make sure that everybody who is behind you that they have >> i want to make sure the person behind you they have it, too. >> some say it was a slip back in 2008 but five and a half years

remember the surfer dude that lives on food stamps, lives on your tax dollars to eat lobster.n, we'll check in with the winner of the florida 13. coming up, i'm going to see if i can get this surfer dude a job as "hannity" continues. [ male announcer ] if you suffer from a dry mouth then you'll know how uncomfortable it can be. [ crickets chirping ] but did you know that the lack of saliva can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath? [ exhales deeply ] [ male announcer ] well there is biotene. specially formulated with moisturizers and lubricants, biotene can provide soothing relief and it helps keep your mouth healthy, too. [ applause ] biotene -- for people who suffer from dry mouth. sunny or bubbly? cozy or cool? "meow" or "woof"? wheels or wheeeels? everything exactly the way you want it ...until boom, it's bedtime. your mattress isn't bliss: it's a battleground of thwarted desire. enter the all-new sleep number classic series. designed to let couples sleep together in individualized comfort. starting at just $699.99 for a queen mattress. he's the softy: his sleep number s

stamp program by $46 billion over the next decade. but even with that, i'm sure some in the right wing media would keep focusing on food stamp fraud. on stewart took on one particular obsession. seafood. and it was hilarious. >> the least you could do is "a," not spend it on food that could be used as a weapon in the coming class war. and "b," spend it on nutrition food like seafood. eat more fish. you could use that. the fox hounds would have no problem. >> this picture says it all. people using food stamps to buy gourmet crab legs? >> is it now considered acceptable for a burgeoning number of people to be on food stamps. is it so acceptable that fresh seafood, whatever you want to get is no problem. >> give the people what they want. fresh seafood. >> i think we established it is possible if you're on food stamps to buy seafood. which is apparently now considered the mercedes of food. i don't want food stamp recipients eating junk. but we also don't want them taking our nice human food. what's the right mixture of quality and class-based shame? >> now, that is some must see tv. . all-you-can-eat is a hotel policy that allows you t

unknown if they escaped or the kidnappers released them. >> millions across the states depend on food stamps. georgia has 2 million people on food stamps and is requiring drug tests for anything using narcotics, florida, utah, missouri have louse in place. in florida 4,000 people took tests 108 failed the test, costing $45,780 there. meantime in utah 466 people were tested in a mandatory screening. 12 failed the test, but it cost the government $25,000. so according to the national conference of the state legislatures 10 states passed legislation. they are on your screen. >> states across the country in audits found little waste in food stamps and welfare. when it comes to drug tests the fact of the matter is there's a minuscule percentage of people across the country with substance abuse problems and use drugs or take food stamps or welfare. it's not really a problem. if it were, if there was an overlap between drug users and public assistance users, it doesn't make sense to kick out vulnerable people, it would be better to use the public assistance system to get people treatment they need.

superpowers do not have almost half the country on food stamps and poverty going north. we've got to start turning this around and soon. >> you immediately seized on my metaphor so i thank you for that. ben stein, what do you make of the fact it's not been a good week when you look at u.s. influence around the world and maybe this space thing was icing on the cake here. it doesn't make americans feel good. >> power flows from the barrel of a gun. we disarmed ourselves. we let ourselves become weak all over the world. we only have a smattering of troops in all of europe. it's a pathetic situation. our navy has been cut to virtually nil our air force is cut. we did not elect mr. obama to be a unilateral disarmer, but that is what he is doing. >> except that is not true. >> mr. putin does not work on the base of morally superior to me. >> it's interesting what ben says and the metaphor which i agree with, it isn't true. >> he didn use the metaphor. gary did. ben went away from the metaphor. >> i understand. we have 60,000 troops in europe, account for 3/4 of the budget of na

on. they stamped on his shoulder or his scapula, so certainly his shoulder's deformed and they need to get an x-ray. but it's incredibly painful. he's got grazes and cuts like all over him. he's been stamped on and hit and it's all over his back and his legs and his arms. great big graze across his shoulder. >> there's one man, tucked away in the corner of the ward, whose story epitomizes the cruelty of mexico's drug war. >> what's happened? yeah. >> yeah. >> and set you on fire? >> yeah. >> luis and his son were kidnapped and tortured. an armed gang poured gas on him, then set him on fire. >> 'cause you've got open burns haven't you? >> yeah. >> they must be sore. >> this is okay and this one isn't. >> yeah. okay. that's worse. >> yeah. >> it's terrible isn't it? absolutely terrifying. how long were you held for? >> two days. >> god, you're lucky to be alive i guess? >> yeah. >> it's terrible. >> it was a case of mistaken identity. when the gang realized, they released him. >> if that happened in our department, it would have been news, you know, it would have been the first thing somebod

russia's takeover with crimea and holding presidential elections. >>> millions of americans depend on food stamps. georgia has nearly 2 million people who rely on food stamps. and now, it's considering a new law that will require drug tests for anyone if there's reasonable suspicion they are using illegal drugs. florida, missouri, utah already have similar laws in place and they have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars implementing them. more than 4,000 people took a drug test from 2011 to 2012. in florida 108 failed. it cost the state close to $45,000. >>> moving now outah. 466 people were tested in mandatory screenings there but only a dozen people in utah failed test. those tests cost the government $25,000. so ten states in total as shown on this map ha have passed simir laws. jeneel buoy has the being story. >> the l fact of the matter is, people who use drugs and also use food stamps or take welfare, it really isn't a problem. if there was this overlap between drug user and public assistance workers it doesn't really make sense to kick off vulnerable people from public assistance. it wou

one has vested interest that walmart does. walmart could blame family dollar and dollar stores more than food stamps. on political side, everyone is going after walmart. it is an incredible catch if they unionize and all other things. to emac's point, the idea that the lower end of the economic scale can shop to walmart and sort of get access or have access to things that normally years ago would have been out of their range, flat-screen tvs, better food products it is an amazing thing. not great for the bottom line but shows that walmart does serve a point in our society that i think gets dissed for a lot. melissa: to charles's point and mat matt's point, walmart making risk disclosure is put itself back on hot seat. i saw today and just yesterday, walmart is, has been attacked because its own workers sometimes are on food stamps or med get made cade. >> a large portion of them are. >> yeah. >> it's a cycle, because as food stamps are spent there, obviously more sales come in, hire more people, takes people off food stamps. almost a vicious cycle for walmart. melissa: it is interesting to look at oth

stamps? >> never even dawned on me. what i wanted people to come away with with this book was how i met this young boy. it was and unlikely friendship. sometimes we have these hidden blessings that are right in front of us, and if we're willing to open up our eyes and heart, you never know what will come of it. so that's what i really kind of hoped. >> when you look around, see there's 47 million americans on food stamps, 22% of american children who are poor, what's your reaction to that? >> it's heartbreaking. when you think that one out of five children are hunger deprived, in this country, in a country as rich as america, that's really, really sad. when you look at the life that maurice led, as a child, there are children today that are still living like that. >> millions. >> millions. about 16 million, actually. and so for my book to be able to be brought to the forefront, to make people become aware that this is how children are living, they're not choosing to live this way. unfortunately, they don't have a choice

look, the number of people that are on food stamps since barack obama has become president has nearlyed. we have 50 million americans on food stamps. 47 million americans that live in poverty. and we have literally the lowest labor participation rate since 1978. real compassion is creating an economic environment. >> sean? >> yes. >> you took the bait from her. because this whole business about some anonymous person is like what senate minority leader harry reid said when they a whisper campaign that governor romney wouldn't pay taxes but wouldn't tell us who he was. here we have this nameless faceless g.o.p. friend who says that this is just vicious. i don't know why you take the bait and you respond. >> i will tell you why, because i -- look, my value system, number one, i am a conservative, yes. i'm also a christian. i care about the poor. i care about the elderly, i care about disabled. this constant false narrative and characterization. all for political gain by the left, every election can i predict and show you the history that the race card is going to be played. i can go back

. >> americans on food stamps, fren french million. americans not in the labor force -- >> the deficit, bring up the deficit. >> we got that too. 7 trillion in new debt, headed to 25 trillion by the end of his term. then we have him with putin. juxtapose this picture with putin. >> here's the thing, what the republicans are lacking, this is where i agree with you, they're lacking major, not small ideas, doing a little bit here and there, but major themes, major reform. you have isolationist republicans and then you have the interventionists. the ones who want us to intervene in russia and the ones who want us to stay out of israel. so which republican are we going to get? >> but if obama fails, isn't socialist policies, redistribution of wealth, reckless spending, the belief government can fix health care -- >> it's not just his fault. >> it's not? >> congress is at an all-time low. republicans and democrats, our elected leader says -- >> but he got everything he wanted. >> what about 2016, who are you going to -- >> the weakness, he's

written on this topic who is skeptical on this item, and susan, she and her family have relied on food stampswelcome to all of you. so debra, is the middle class way of life that people associate the military provided for decades on its way out? >> i don't knowists on its way out, but esee a -- we see a differential between those who join as service members and those who join as officers. your base salary, e-1 is about $20,000. and you see an officer coming in at about $40,000. so when you talk about these issues such as poverty and food stamps there is this pay differential that you see. you see somebody who is making $20,000 and has 2.pief children, that doesn't -- 2.5 children that doesn't go very far. so you can see there's some struggles there. >> indeed. susan, the numbers that we referenced getting into the show are incomplete as best because that's all that's available. but they certainly indicate that more military families could be hovering around the poverty line. is there an untold story here in your opinion? >> i think there definitely is. i think the biggest problem is at a anyb

we have a very high rate of ssi, some on food stamps and some are felons and they are disorganized to do that on their own. the case managers, the whole thing, the street to home plan addresses each one of those things. everyone has a unique street to home plan. what is happening that is new for you now is there is a lot of people in the affordable care act that need to be coordinated. these folks often travel to saint mary's and saint frances and getting sporadic care in a fashion and not able to connect well to a home. the team will act as a health home on the street and will begin to take a lot more responsibility for coordinating care and making sure that folks stay within our managed care system. that requires a level of expertise to be able to be a care coordinator. so we are as part of the enhancement looking to increase the skill level of some of our care managers and to bring in more health services. we are recommending , this is a lot to take in here. but the yellow ones are the additional positions. it's 27 additional positions for moving from 3 teams to 5 teams. and you wi

depends on foot stamps. some are taking steps to ensure the program is not abused. georgia has 2 million dependent on food stamps, and now a measure thorough those requiring drug tests for anyone who are believed to use illegal drugs. florida, missouri, utah has measures in place and spent hundreds of thousands trying to implement them. more than 4,000 took the drug test from 2011 to 2012, 108 failed it. it cost the state about $45,000. in utah, 466 people were tested in mandatory screenings. only 12 failed the test. costing the government $25,000. according to the national conference, 10 states passed such legislation. arizona, florida, kansas, mississippi, north carolina, tennessee, and utah - as you sisee on the screen. 22 states introduced proposals, but they have come under criticism. joining me now for more on all of this is jamal boouy, who has written about the issue. thank you for being with us. >> controversy with the programs, the bills. why do you think they are gaping traction? >> i think they are gaping traction because -- gaining traction because they