ron haskins has told me it's false, and ron haskins has looked and written on a lot of these rules, andhe regards those -- and i trust ron. ron pretty much wrote the welfare be reform policies in tanf, and i trust his judgment. and he disagrees completely. there's also all kinds of half-truths in the report. for example, we hear about the 799 -- let's call it 800 billion, okay? it's fine. half of that is on health care. medicaid and a few other schip type programs which to me says, tell us a lot more about how outrageous health care is in america rather than we're overspending. all of the other stuff is the other 400 billion. it's 2% of gdp in america. 2% of gdp is not a huge, massive government -- in fact, when you compare us to all other industrialized countries, we're on the low end of what we spend as a fraction of gdp. and, in fact, when you compare us to those countries, those countries all have more generous safety nets, lower poverty rates and higher rates of upward mobility than we do. so this notion that our program is so generous and trapping people, i think, has a little emp

i regard that as a false statement to the reason why is ron haskins has dolby is false and ron haskins has looked and written on a lot of these rules and you regard those as i trust them pretty much. he pretty much wrote the welfare reform policies in tanf come and i trust his judgment on but i think he disagrees complete. all types of half-truths in the report. we heard a lot about the 799, let's round up and call 800 billion. that's fine. half of that is on health care. medicaid and other schip type programs which to me says tells us more about how outrageously expensive health care is an american president overspending on this. all the other stuff, the other 400 billion, may select a massive amount but it's 2% of gdp in america. 2% is not a huge massive government -- when you convert to all of the individual is countries, we are on the low end of what we spend is friday of gdp. and you can prestigious countries, they all have more generous safety net, lower poverty rates and higher rates. so this notion that our program is a generous that it's trapping people i think as little pasht

ron haskins writes about this more than anybody else. millions of those moms not on welfare, not working because they're hard to employ. i will get back to that. tanf no longer raise anybody out of deep poverty, income one-half the poverty line and it used to. it did nothing in the recession to combat rise in poverty occurred when jobs were disappearing in the recession. on the other hand food stamps, heavily demonized in the report, food stamps does raise millions of people and families out of deep poverty. it is successful doing that it does, it did combat the recession. it had a counter cyclical role and very importantly the rigorous evidence shows food stamps raises the nutritional quality of poor children. that is clear fact when you look at valuation evidence on that. those children do much better as adult and work more better as adults than those that don't have access. therefore a rise in food stamps somehow proving obama has been a failure is simply another falsehood in my view. the earning income tax credit, report does have a

and, again, ron haskins writes about this more than anyone else. millions of those moms not on welfare and not working. i'll get back to that. tanf no longer raises anybody out of deep poverty. it used to. it did nothing in the recession to combat the rise in poverty that occurred when jobs weredisappearing in the recession. on the other hand, food stamps -- heavily demonized in the report -- food stamps does raise millions of people and families out of deep poverty. it's successful in doing that. it does -- it did combat the recession. it had a countercyclical role and, very importantly, the rigorous evidence shows food stamps raises the nutritional quality of poor children. that this' a clear fact when you look at the evaluation evidence on that. and those children -- [inaudible] so, therefore, a rise in food stamps somehow proving that obama has been a failure is simply another falsehood, in my view. the earned income tax credit. the report does have a positive paragraph or two on the earned income tax credit, then it talks a lot about the fraud

ron haskins has told me it is false and has looked and break in on a lot of the rules and regards those and i trust him. he pretty much wrote the welfare reform policies and i trust his judgment on that and i think that he disagrees completely. for example, we heard early in the report to 800 billion. that's fine. half of that is on health care. medicaid and a few other programs, which to me tells how outrageous it is rather than the overspending on this. all the other stuff may sound massive but it's 2% of gdp in america. it's not a huge massive government when you compare to all other industrialized countries on the low-end of what we spend is a fraction of gdp and those countries all have more generous safety nets and lower poverty rates have been the dupe so again this notion that the program is so generous that it's trapping people and one more thing about this report that is upsetting to me, there were 42 footnotes and the census bureau. the majority of the articles are papers coming out of the right-wing think tanks and outlets or conservative political appointees. not one footno