stossel: they do? would fight each other. >> the way that our welfare system has been redesigned of the last 20 years, it's to help low income workers with children. so you can work full-time, but your kids can get free lunch and you can work and get food stamps. you can work and live in public housing. >> the welfare state has also limited nonstudent access to the program and that was the most successful part of the 1990s excerpt on to build a wall around reform to prevent poor immigrants from getting in these poor rims in the first place. stossel: if your legal, you are not eligible. >> if you're here on guestworker visa, then you are not eligible either. stossel: except for free hospitalization when you're sick, that's a form of welfare. >> in order to count the taxes of that student paying going forward, you talk a lot about the household. that means counting kids who are american citizens were here up until the age of 18, and then you stop counting them and not counting the taxes they pay for the

john stossel, everybody. when we come right back, is it legal on the strange -- and i mean strange, bergdahl investigation. >>> also a judge giving a child porn guy no prison time. legal is next. a boatload! ♪ foghorn sounds loudly ♪ what's seattle's favorite noise? the puget sound! ♪ foghorn sounds loudly ♪ all right, never mind doesn't matter. this is a classic. what does an alien seamstress sew with? a space needle! ♪ foghorn sounds loudly continuously ♪ oh come off it captain! geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. is all ready the brand ofstate the year.d berkshire hathaway home services. good to know. >>> thanks for staying with us. i'm bill o'reilly. and in the is it legal segment, two hot topics. the investigation of bowe bergdahl for alleged desertion. remember he was traded for five prisoners in july. i said this. >> i don't think anything is going to happen to bowe bergdahl. i think the fix is in. i don't think chuck hagel is going to do anything or the pent

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stossel: conservatives ri >> conservatives point out america is a nation of law.empt from the law. they have paths to citizenship for the millions of illegal immigrants who are here now. they want to be in america they ought to return to their own country, apply for a visa or work permit legally. america should not reward law breaking. that just makes sense. except what if the immigrant did that went to the u.s. embassy and said i would like to work in america legally. he would get paperwork to fill out and he would go home to wait and wait. a forbes investigation found a high school graduate would wait on average 130 years. we were telling illegal workers do it legally just wait 130 years. makes no sense. we should make legal immigration easier. relax the rules issue work permits. immigrants co founded most of silicone valley startups. the patent office says immigrants invent things at twice the rate of native born americans. immigrants have the ambition and guts to leave their home to pursue an american dream. we ought to let more of them in. not just ph.d. half

john stossel will tell us what he thinks. >> just when i need you. every time i call it a game you call it a business. every time i call it a business you call it a game. zblf also ahead, is the culture of violence in the national football league spilling over to the private sector? the factor has been investigating. >> caution. you are about to enter the no sting zone. the factor begins right now. hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. who is still supporting president obama? that's the subject of this eveni evening's talking post. a washington poll asks whether the obama administration is a success or failure? among registered voters, 55% say failure. 39% success. in the same poll americans were asked is president obama a strong leader? yes, 43%. no, 55%. and finally, do you support u.s. air strikes against the isis army in iraq? 71% support. just 23% oppose. president obama eels job approval is 42% across the board with 54% disapproving. so the question then becomes, who continues to support the president? let's start with the 39%

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john stossel is host of "stossel" on the "fox business" network and joins us now.democrats say we're the pro choice party, but they're only talking about abortion. rand paul is right. what you pay people what you can buy, so many other things. no choice. what school you can send your kid to? no, we're going to pick that for you. >> interesting. gun rights. >> absolutely. you can have an abortion, but not buy a gun. >> on the democrat side you say it's limited, what about the republicans side? >> there, one of my big issues is if i'm old and sick and in pain, i want to choose to maybe end my life and republicans fight that and is against legal gambling. republicans want to keep fighting the drug war. they don't want to say, you own your body, it's your choice. so both parties -- we libertarians say once you're an adult, you own your body, you ought to do what you want with it as long as you don't directly harm somebody else. >> that's a fine line because so many times that affect occurs with those choices. >> if we eat too much and government is big and other people

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john stossel, who is far more libertarian than i am has a wonderful show on fox news channel on the weekends and has written this book, putting somebody else's book, why would you turn to government all the time when government can't even win wars anymore? government does so few things well at some times in cooperation in the private sector but mostly the power of the private sector, the power of the individual lot to be supreme and once were. our constitution in the preamble begins we the people, not you the government is we have a $17 trillion debt, out of control government spending and regulation, taxes on success and subsidizing failure, we wonder why we are getting less success and more failure. we use to praise the people who succeeded and became wealthy. now we envied them and field entitled to their income. the most amazing turnaround. i feel like had parachuted into another planet from the one i was brought up in. we know the values that work. inspiration followed by motivation followed by perspiration will improve any life. you might not turn out to be a billionaire but you won't

. >> my big government loving friends sometimes say, stossel, what you are winding about -- whining aboutans voted for big government. if you don't like it you could vote the bums out. dem crease idemocracy is sort oe market. but compareed to a real free market, political process is vastly up pe infer inferior. we vote with our dollars in private sector, and often for more stuff, and to win our votes businesses must adjust, all of the time every minute, competition requires businesses to innovate, or lose votes and die. also, and most important, politics is a package deal. vote for obama you get obama policy, but in free market, have you a million choices, take food shopping, there are a lot of different super markets with different prices, suppose we chose food the way you choose politicians two choicess s donkey meats or elephant meat. every 4 years people vote for either one of those meats, no matter how you voted, you have to eat what the majority picked. in the free market supermarket, i can pickl donkey and you can k the elephant, we each get what we want. government bureaucrats try

. ♪ ♪ >> now it is time for john stossel. john: the green monster.pa, the the, creating rules that make the environment cleaner. the air and water were filthy and people forget how bad it was. and let me remind you, here is the star anchorman of my day reporting on the state of america. >> hydrocarbons, organic matter, each and every day. john: some of that was media hype it in all of this media types. but in truth much of america was still pristine. but it's also absolutely true than in many cities near industrial plants the air was filthy. it's much cleaner now and so is the water. even here within sight of the empire state building within a short distance of millions of people, i am willing to do this. and thank you, epa. catalytic converters on cars, the international world, the epa would now say let's take a for it and stick it in it because it's done. the drop raise and bureaucracies never say that this is done. politicians keep adding new rules and then they applaud themselves for doing that. >> i'm really proud of president obama for these ep

john stossel changes gears.e and put it to the test. >> 26 plus 17, by breaking apart numbers to make it 10. use a number that adds with the 6 and 26 to make 210, is instance 6 plus 4 equals 10, use 4. >> what? bulldog: quarterback takes the snap... oh, he fakes a handoff and he's making a run... for mattress discounters fall kickoff sale! right now, save up to $300 on sealy posturepedic and serta mattress sets. even get 24 months interest-free financing on every tempur-pedic. you're going to love their football field-size selection. this calls for a little touchdown dance. don't miss the fall kickoff sale at mattress discounters. ♪ mattress discounters >>> time for news by the numbers. first, $13 million. that's how much brad pitt, robert deniro and leonardo dicaprio each made in two days. so how did they do it? china has deep possibilities. they filmed an ad for martin scorcese for a new chinese casino. that's nothing compared to this. forbes announced the highest paid celebrity of the year and it's sofia verg

john stossel host of "stossel" at fox business joins us live. >> i'm glad you corrected that. are concerned about the sudden -- the deluge of people coming across. >> it's awful that there is a swarm right there, but we have a smaller percentage of immigrants at the moment than we've had in the past. but these statistics come from an anti-immigration group. 47% are on welfare. 39% need food assistance. 35% use medicaid. wait a second. you're not eligible if you're an illegal immigrant for welfare. yes, their children use some of these services and more of them use welfare than americans 'cause more of them are poor. but the national research council, which is much better research, says if you include their children and what these immigrants do later in life, they contribute on average $83,000 to america. >> you run through some of the companies that you claim are started by immigrants. >> they are. ebay, radio shack, sara lee, kraft food. blow dryers, all kinds of good stuff. >> we would still be towel drying if it wasn't for immigrants. >> i think we're just dealing with lega

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john: my big government-loving friends sometimes say, stossel, what are you whining about?ns voted for big government. democracy is all about choice, you have a choice, you can vote the bums out. true. >> this is an election alert. john: democracy is a free market, we choose our representatives, but compared to a real free market, the political process is vastly inferior. we get to vote for politicians once every two or four or six years. if this is a market, it's a slow and clumsy one. in the private sector we vote with dollars and vote often for more stuff, and to win our votes businesses must adjust constantly, not every four years, every day, every minute, competition requires businesses to innovate, or lose votes and die. also, and most important, politics is a package deal. vote for obama, you get obama policy in. the free market, you have a million choices. take food shops. lots of different supermarkets with a lot of differentand pric. suppose you chose food the way we choose politicians. two choices, donkey meat or elephant meat. maybe a third choice of other food

. >> and now, john stossel. >> when we talk choice, there's not much more important than health care. the president sold obama care saying it would lower costs and yet give us more coverage and more good choices. win-win. some people would gain better insurance and even if you didn't, you wouldn't lose anything. >> if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. >> that doesn't work out so well, millions have learned that, no, you don't get to keep your doctor. 6 million policies were cancelled. but millions of americans who did not have health insurance before do have it, and that what's why obama care is good, says kathleen london with doctors of america who wants america to pay for more of our health care. so ckathleen, i agree with michael, but you say obama care is a great thing? >> i'm looking at the number of people coming in who before had to choose between paying their represent or paying for health care or who couldn't get it because of preexisting conditions or other reasons who are now able to actually get coverage. those plans that were cancelled we

. >> and now, john stossel. oh oo the biggest education controversy this year is over something called common core. supporters say it's a single common standard that tells parents in every state this is what your kid ought to know. some union teachers are upset about it. >> these standards are crippling they are crippling our student's education and joy of learning. common core standards must constantly struggle and struggle to push themselves at legals that are not developmentally appropriate. >> the kids must push themselves beyond what is appropriate. no say common core these standards are appropriate and better and we have a measure to learn kids are learning what they need to learn. >> life is full of measuring stick how well we are, how fast we are how we can compete. up until now it has been pretty hard to tell how well kids are competing in school and how well they are going to do when they get out of school. that's where the common core state standards come in. >> what does common core mean for you kids

i was leaning back thinking billy is going to pick up the story of johnny stossel's magic stash and turnr and i found the knee protector there and i thought wow this is really getting invasive. folks, don't fly coach. if you have to go from new york to l.a. you are better off walking than flying coach. because you are going to sit down and coach. they are going to chain you to the oar and tell you to pay attention to the guy working the drum at the front of the cab. >> how did it happen? how did it get this bad? my father once forced me to take a greyhound bus from long island to fort lauderdale, florida. i thought that was the worse. you couldn't get any worse than that even getting off at south of the border. and eating those greasy omelets. now it's worse flying and taking the greyhound down to lauderdale. >> listen, stretch. you couldn't even fit in coach anymore. let's face facts. you have got those extendo legs. the fact is be luck i couldn't are flush hosting the factor because you don't have to go back into hosting that freak show. >> it's true. >> carney, miller and i have been

john stossel will tell us what he thinks. >> just when i need you. every time i cal

poverty the health and human services department will be there comfortingly with food stamps, john stossel, a far more libertarian than i am has a wonderful show on the fox news channel on the weekends and he has written this book, i am plugging somebody else's book about why would you turn to government all the time when governments can't even win wars anymore? government does so few things well, sometimes in cooperation with the private sector but mostly the power of the private sector and the power of the individual ought to be supreme and once were. our constitution in the preamble begins we the people, not use the government. we have a $17 trillion debt, out of control government spending and regulation, taxes on success and subsidizing failure and we wonder why we again less success and more failure. we used to praise the people who succeeded and became wealthy. now we envied them and feel intitled to their income. it is the most amazing turnaround. i feel like i parachuted into another planet from the one i was brought up in. we know the values that work. inspiration followed by mot

john stossel will tell us what he thinks. >> just when i need you. every time i call it a

stossel can. i want to bring in kate warren, investment strategist.ple and the news yesterday. wholewas mentioning the apple pay system. i know visa is one of the stocks you like. -- visaa little bit shares after the announcement. as an see this opportunity? >> we think more and more people -- not only u.s. but globally. as we heard from apple, it will be tied to his credit cards. that is good news for visa. >> will there be competition among visa, mastercard, and american express? >> absolutely. there is a lot of competition. it is a highly competitive market. we will continue to see the use of credit card companies basically with that process. it is competitive. always downward pressure. we think stock is an opportunity because of the rapid growth in transactions. even if you are getting less transaction, it is good news for the overall revenue and earnings going forward. >> let's look at some of the stocks. i was interested in how the decline inoffset defense spending, projected to be down about 2% in 2015. do you bounce that? >> it is a balancing

stossel open slightly lower. the s&p coming off its first weekly drop in a month.rica trying to increase its business in china. it is hiring the morgan stanley chairman of china and investment banking. to stay is determined independent. the family that controls the beer maker rejected an offer from sab miller, which leaves sab miller even more vulnerable to a takeover offer. matt, tell us why heineken rejected miller's offer? >> heineken is one of the great businesses. it is currently controlled by the heirs of freddy heineken, this larger than life entrepreneurial character who died not so long ago. those situations where the family is reluctant to sell. there is very little anyone can do about that. rejection, where does that leave miller? >> sab is in a quarter. resist thosean advances or find a defensive acquisition to get to they to swallow, is what they're focused on now. the beer world is very consolidated. there are only a few big companies. other two are carlsberg and denmark and heineken. that leaves carlsberg, also controlled by a foundation that could r