so Elisabeth Hasselback is now she has left the view is we've talked about
and she is now on Fox News probably the correct place for her perfectly logical
and she teased the segment this guy john stossel goes on Fox News
and they kind of pitch in as the non-political guy who just gives you the
bottom line truth on what you need to know
so you don't get screwed the reality is he's an incredibly ideological
extreme libertarian who falls under not true libertarian philosophy
but kind of this libertine libertarian that Judith
read talked about yesterday on the show if you miss that check it out
listen to what she had to say about the ugly side a welfare check it out
up next box business alert friend you joblessness numbers about to be released
what are they instant analysis next then do these folks really need to be on
welfare
so have a TV yeah but television
he have air-conditioned yes cable TV
yeah how many channels 131 john stossel checking into that and exposing the ugly
side
entitlements coming up okay now to me Lewis the ugly side of welfare
is the negative connotation surrounding those who
receive government benefits the idea that the spending as wasteful
all love the negative nonsense around welfare programs
that to me is the ugly side of welfare the fact that some poor people have cell
phones & Air Conditioning
to me is not at all the ugly side of welfare
right they they passed this office as hard-hitting
interesting journalism and I i think if you think about this logically
we kinda need those people who aren't or offered have cell phones don't
yeah Louis integral part of their lives cell phones for people who are on
welfare
are hugely important often they have addresses that might change much faster
then people who earn more money to put it to put it simply
it becomes very difficult to apply for jobs or even to maintain access to some
of these benefits
if you don't have a number where people can reach you
you probably you you may not have an email address you may not have a regular
physical address
that you really need a cell phone it's abundantly clear and I would even go
further
the assumption that poor people shouldn't have cell phones is in part
kind of grounded in the idea that it's an unnecessary expense
and or a luxury but increasingly access to a mobile phone
is becoming more of a utility the idea that it is
it is a simple that is it is simply a luxury to have
a phone that is yours that goes to you that you carry around
as as a luxury i think is antiquated its its drastically distorting this
a and then the other thing as far as the air conditioning goes Louis you can get
an air conditioner
for a hundred bucks or even less sometimes who are we to say
that if you are on welfare providing yourself
or maybe someone who is elderly who lives with you
or maybe a very young child or baby
who are very susceptible to those high temperature high humidity days
with some comfort in the summer is somehow
out of bounds I mean it's almost like were in a country
where the right expect poor people to live in cardboard leaving to use with no
plumbing and dirt floors
right I know I and maybe that would be a
that would make it seem like they're not taking as much from
taking as much from the government as people think they are mad dog penis does
go both ways of course there people taking advantage of the system
right and and and as we know it every time we say that we can acknowledge it
and we have to say
any system will have that and is it statistically significant
and the answer is now yeah I must remember that
a lot of he's government handouts as their point miss that
in this segment are actually quite stimulated
oh that no question about it we talked I can even I my head's gonna explode if I
start going down in doing that analysis again lawyers
suffice it to say were completely
at home here with what Elizabeth Hasselbeck is delivering in her new role
at Fox News let's take a break we're gonna talk to David Greenfield
about technology addiction next and then your voicemails and more