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FBN’s John Stossel on how the government encourages an entitlement culture and the Administration’s push for greater gun control.
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-- just loving them before you make you question what kind of a society it is it is humane and generous or entitlement and dependency crazy.
-- -- One -- four children participated in the food stamp program in 2011.
That's according to agriculture Agriculture Department in the census department.
About twenty million children.
Being fed by the tax -- Mother of two Nicole badly -- is.
Libertarian John Stossel -- me now the call plausible to you look you had a -- You had a ranch yesterday about kids and the way that being brought up.
But the defenders of the food stamp program site that twenty million kids they will be healthy kids and this helps the economy what -- you -- I wanna -- make isn't clear I'm not an insensitive person for the people who need food stamps they should have food stamp their children go to public schools.
Who get their meals there however we are raising a group of entitlement nation children.
I know as a parent I go out of my way to TT -- our children.
-- how they have to -- each dollar they better get ready to work work work work five.
Work work work work and that -- their lecture all the time when you're entitled to nothing taught.
Well hopefully alright -- all we hear you loud and clear and I think our view that don't -- some comments on that but -- -- see it now John as a libertarian.
I presume that you do not like this kind of handout mentality is kind of government feeding -- appointments -- It's tough to argue against food for poor people -- -- They've doubled it over the past four years are we -- which poor and its four times since 2001.
They encouraged me and that's I sent someone -- job centers for job sectors three did not offer jobs they sent her on.
But all of -- -- -- we'll help you sign up for -- for welfare for food stamps.
Once you give away free stuff.
People always want more I refrigerant to charter school she says kids -- All these kids eligible for free lunches many of them are driven to school by parents in fancy -- extraordinary it's.
How society is gone a long way.
From your libertarian ideals.
And yet finally he is almost a direct opposite -- resentment.
-- not communism yet not distressed about the direct opposite.
I want to get your comments on guns on the come -- -- debate.
It did vice president Joseph Biden said yesterday that it is possible to get something done.
President Obama will sidestep congress who go around it -- executive order to issue some kind of control of the of the dumb situation.
What do you make of that.
Well it's why I wrote no they can't yes we think yes we can just fix it with this but they had a gun control law it didn't work.
And the executive order stuff congress is supposed to make the laws.
I can't say this is a new thing that Obama did they've always done this may be the worst was Teddy Roosevelt who signed a thousand executive orders.
What what he tried to change spellings said -- off.
-- -- Really kiss -- -- yes he didn't know that the congress overruled him and congress can overthrow these things but it has to be two thirds vote.
-- Nixon's wage and price controls JFK created the peace corps with an executive order bush the war in Iraq.
Stop stem cell research money.
They've always done this -- think the president.
Will win.
On this issue I think there -- a clam up.
From on the part of the public do something do some of them is flawed flawed it won't help net nobody's quite sure -- would welcome -- we should do but there -- a climate to do something and the president's gonna run against an ineffectual congress which has an approval rating below that in a cockroach.
I mean he's -- a winner with this thing -- I can't see how an executive board would be reversed all rejected I think he's going -- -- agree that this is this intuitive reaction there ought to be -- law we do something they keep passing more pages.
Make life slower it's a reason this recovery is so slow because just the burden applause nobody knows what they are.
You know one of the best props that you've ever used on your show is when you show a law I want to read the news and you bring -- -- stack.
And if if -- -- feet high -- You're probably breaking -- we don't even know what the laws are anymore and if you're an entrepreneur -- started business under those conditions you gotta jump -- -- cut don't forget that this -- show it's cold stop sole right appropriate.
If -- -- this starts at 9 PM -- on the Fox Business Network now.
Although -- second is -- Joan will open his show tonight.
What do you do when hit with bad publicity.
This morning -- was escorted from the tenth precinct there are specialists who deal with bad news could they have helped after the big oil spill.
When the company bought said this I'd love my life back and they help you during a disaster.
-- on the back.
-- in the question is bad news really bad for business.
I don't you're -- you're if you cannot in Hollywood -- -- a pulse that.
John -- docile it is tonight it's at 9 PM eastern right here on the Fox Business that would -- right stuff -- -- much of the new.
