really offsets
so putting aside that attack by sixty minutes
on the social security disability insurance the the attack
also comes up in this with full full peace
by a john stossel sorta promoting
his a you know his Leno on the street
man on the street interviews
program and he's doing it on the
I'm the wonderful bastion %uh vagrants that we all call Fox & Friends
here it is John Stossel on Fox and Friends talking about how we've created
of stuff a nation of takers so is welfare creating more victims and
actually helping joining us now is the host of Stossel
john stossel himself so the system not doing what it's intended to do
well I think government was there to keep a safe and welfare was a new idea
it used to be done by private charities which did it better
is my new that is
ally that can only be disproved that by
a anyone who has any notion of the history of this country
private charities
have never never ever
ever been up to the task I love
dealing with society's poverty levels private charities
could never ever ever
be up to the task love dealing with all societies
a.m. charity
needs or welfare needs or poverty needs
back in the nineteen twenties
in this city there was
literally twenty thousand people sleeping on the street at the Bowery
now the vast majority of them were men
because some women and orphans were taken care of
in the most horrible love conditions by
a charity's of course there was also a lot of women who
I were prostitutes and we're living in brothels
up but it has never been the case that is if
Justin absolute abject lie but of course
John Stossel is on Fox and Friends so he's not worried about that lie
how to guide who needed help a new need to kick in the rear but now we have laws
over
see that the charity's also new the vicar
the town vicar new well he's the town drunk we just needs a kick in the rear
and it'll all be fine maybe just push him out into the
a the outskirts of town and maybe the late Charles Dickens the kids is the
situation a pickpocket gangs stop asking for more oatmeal
she's like grow up and have a little roughly the job may have some more
sorry all I thought you that do much continue the kick in the arse
camps but you can see it with the war on poverty how it created dependency let me
look at this story
they can proudly say when the chance and we wage war on poverty we create welfare
probably goes down to the next six years but look at before it started
Americans were lifting themselves out of poverty welfare continue that and then
progress stops
has gone up and down syndrome cannot now parts so
there was a dip in poverty if you can imagine during the greatest economic
expansion our country's ever see
and then
we instituted the war on poverty a poverty continue to fall
but then we hit the seventies does anybody remember anything about the
seventies what is it about the so I remember
stagflation I remember
the economy went into the to the the tank
impoverished rise
to have weirdly a real 1983
when we start to see the destruction
love unions when we start to see the
redistribution of wealth upwards when we start to see the diminishment
love in the increase income inequality and ever since it's almost as if it
attracts like the economy
but of course no one's going to question that
that graph on Fox and Friends because
they don't have the capacity to people to be dependent
and wouldn't you say that given the fact when you looked at
at the last presidential election you know there were a number of people on
the right he said
look everybody's gonna vote for Barack Obama because he's giving away so much
free stuff
maybe and you we all get free stuff mean I'm get medicare now it feels like
freestyle
way to go we learn it though I
whole him I'm getting free stuff
but the problem is the other people who are getting free stuff we can all agree
that I earned my medicare even though that we know medicare pays out benefits
that are actually higher than No
your average person put in or at least the
if you average it out amongst everybody you put it in not everybody meet makes
it to 65
that's okay but let's talk about those other people because we know they're not
like me
from we went to one jobs office where we found
all kinds of entry level jobs just outside inside they said of no jobs are
out
and I'll what are the welfare workers actually admitted that
yeah I would probably encourage people not to look for work
and do 630 and human resources encourage people to be dependents
yes we too
so wats what should be done about them
really know Tyler really know
it's not like it's not give the way the money and then go get a job
the and you work for the government that's right
well thats it's refreshing I know it yeah
thirty-five states okay other now let's let's go back just a moment here for
second a couple seconds
for staff we don't know how that the that exchange was edited
we don't know any context it's a great anecdote
we don't know if as I think it's a Elizabeth Hasselbeck will bring up in a
moment
om well maybe it's possible that people can't make a living wage
and they can't feed their kids there is always going to be a dynamic
there's always going to be a price point folks
where if I work at a minimum wage job with the family of four
I will not be able to put food on their table I can get
slightly more from
a welfare program but if I work at all I'm not eligible for their welfare
program
that is always going to be the Lamma the percentage of people who follow that a
that that zone is incredibly small
in if you want to fix it then there are ways
to create a tiered system but there's no interest in doing that because then you
would lose this anecdote
well thats
it's refreshing I know in the air in 35 States thousands
the actual in the minimum wage there is less than what you can make
being on welfare so the motivation to go get a job is it almost non-existent
in 35 States often and disability rates going up so
what's weird about that better medicine less manual labor and more Americans are
solar people more I used to be a state road to to take
a handout and now you start to feel like you're a sucker if you don't cuz your
neighbor is getting
you know well my wife and I were talking about this once upon a time there was
some shame to it you know
occasionally that on some occasions families would fall into this
to the stage where they were tapping get some sort of government is is it and now
it's
it's exactly what you're talking about hey it's out there let's take it and I
was at fault I joined the chorus that said it's not right. these people who
through no fault of their own need help but we're
be shaming them it's terrible but it's grown from Matt
to this entitlement in people who need it should get it but it's the other
people that you gotta worry about this is we're going to talk about tonight in
your shower right yeah I wonder fair tonight on a shows john stossel make a
really clear
who aren't the other people mum
I wonder