. >> yeap. i read enough about the topic to believe that that is absolutely true in many cases. there are exceptions but the most part, that $300 check is not enough to support a family, but is it enough to hold you back from finding the job? it might be. especially when finding a job is darn tough. what we risk is the ballooning in enment pending and not a healthy place to be. it is time to cut back a bit. we do see jobs out there. >> it is not only the jobless benefits but the food stamps that other people are going for. it is more than the $300 figure that rick was talking about. >> i am of the mind set. we want to help the poor. we want to help people who need food stamps to get that. but you can't do 99 weeks of unemployment benefits when you have economic policies that caused two percent gdp growth. that is flattened growth and you have a social safety net where country after country is victims of the safety net. it is private job creation. and come from companies less than five years old . they are panicked over what they see out of the washington. >> after 99 weeks tis a

we have julia -- juliet: yeap smith -- julianne smith.prior to joining the administration she was director of the european program at the center for strategic and ancestral studies. and i have to say that before that she was with basic. so there's still time for me to invite you to the ball, i hope. um, next to me on my left is andras simonyi, managing director for transatlantic relations at johns hopkins university, previously hungarian ambassador to the united states. he was a negotiator on the delegation preparing hungary's membership of nato. to my immediate right is john feffer who is co-director of foreign policy and focus at the institute for foreign policy studies, also a 2012 open society fellow looking at the transformations across eastern europe. he has also been a writing fellow at the provision's library in d.c. and a pan-tech fellow in korean studies at stanford university. marios efthymiopoulos is president of strategy international based in greece, a nato specialist who is a former visiting scholar at the center for transa