IT'S DONE!!
TRUMP JUST DROPPED THE GIANT BOMB ON THE MEDIA AFTER HE DID THIS
well the Trump administration is attempting to overall the nation's food stamp program
by expanding work requirements for recipients Georgia now one of the first states to enforce
those stricter rules reportedly kicking 8,000 people off food stamps after determining those
recipients as unemployed able-bodied adults who are capable of working but some in the
left-wing media slamming the move with headlines like these look at that Trump plans to make
people work for food stamps novel idea here to react Fox News contributor and editor-in-chief
camps reform Lawrence Jones first of all congrats the morning thank you appreciate it the novel
idea that you would work if you're able-bodied you know you should work before you receive
government benefits yes so I think it's important for people to understand that this was a law
already in place it came back away before the Clinton administration but
during the Clinton administration the bureaucrats took that away during the recession but they
never implemented it back so what this law requires you to do is at least work 20 hours
get some form of education or at least show that you can work that you make it so all
these people get on the system and they stay on it and so this was the scourge that get
them involved in the process actually look for a job so they just don't be depended on
this program isn't requiring work having work requirements for welfare or food stamps however
we want to benefit from it whether it's housing or something else doesn't that enable people
to get out of poverty rather than stay in it right I know a lot of people on the Left
want to trap people in this because they will have
their voting base and they don't have to work to actually focus on the issues that affect
adversely Americans but the fact of the matter is this a lot of this policies have affected
my community personally many of the people in my community end up stand on these programs
because it's a trap it's a government trap to keep them in there that's why the original
program was to allow people to have some form of assistance get a leg up and not be trapped
on it forever so that's the the facts of it as Pete mentioned those headlines earlier
so what is the doing why are they getting it wrong well they're playing this anti-trump
game it came before Trump so the fact of the matter is the president is just now enforcing
the law Chicago Illinois Chicago Illinois Louisiana is one of those that main some of
those states are still fighting the gifts as in Georgia
was as well they're one of the first states to start this but at the end of the day this
is a federal law there was way in place way before Trump is insulting to tell people that
they shouldn't have to work well it's insulting and it's also you have to question the motives
right why do you want people to stay on a federal system that means that you're sometimes
at minimum wage sometimes it's you're in a poverty level or below the poverty level why
would you want people to stay on the system and I think many people that are on those
program have to question those government officials that are actually advocating for
the Lord's if I'm right you used to be a Democrat but you saw the world very differently why
did you see it that way and why did you change the way you view the world well at the end
of the day you know look
I wanted to be helpful as a Democrat but when you start seeing the traps of the left where
they try to keep you down in every aspect of your life where they feel like just because
of the color of your skin or your social economic status that you can't secede and did unique
government to do that that gets frustrated and as someone that came from a mother that
had him as 16 and it was taught hard work by his mother and father I couldn't be a leftist
anymore because it just didn't align with the values that I was taught in my home and
there's a left playing politics with not only low-income people but also elderly people
yeah they're playing politics but they also are playing a financial game all right this
is not just a typical politics as you see day-to-day this is saying I'm gonna keep you
down and every American that are on these programs
should I'm not saying that we should get rid of them because that would be unrealistic
Congress would never pass that but the fact of the matter this is not a program that should
be permanent this is something to give you a leg up not just a hand down welcome my friend
I want you to take a look at this world war one Memorial it stands 40 feet tall and has
been there for nearly a hundred years now some non-christians are apparently up in arms
over its shape and they want it taken down back now new details is Fox News chief correspondent
Jonathan hunt Jonathan what's going on here good evening again Lisa this is a case of
focuses on just one Memorial in Maryland but it could have far-reaching consequences impacting
monuments across the nation including some at Arlington
National Cemetery the memorial at the center of this case is a cross that honors World
War one veteran's in Bladensburg Maryland its construction was started by community
members and mothers whose sons died in World War one and it was completed by the American
Legion a lower court has ruled that the Cross should be removed because it violates the
Establishment Clause of the Constitution which of course reads quote Congress shall make
no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof but
an amicus brief filed by thirty states says the Supreme Court quote should reverse the
lower court's call for its destruction as it's placed in our national tradition and
broader cultural context make clear the Bladensburg memorial honors both the
servicemembers it was built to honor and the constitutional ideals including in the First
Amendment they died to defend and West Virginia's Attorney General who led the group of 30 states
in challenging the lower courts said quote we owe a great deal of gratitude to the brave
men and women who sacrificed everything for our country honoring that sacrifice with memorials
that include religious symbols does not violate the US Constitution and is one of the many
freedoms these men and women fought to preserve now the challenge the 93 old cross began with
the American Humanist Association a nonprofit a theist organization that has of course Lisa
filed similar lawsuits across the country Lisa thank you Jonathan joining us now is
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrissey he is leading the 30 state charge to protect
this
memorial and also Fred Edwards former executive director of the American Humanist Association
in a plaintiff in the case Fred I want to start with you why are you against a memorial
that honors those who paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedoms like the First Amendment
because we want to honor them all and that is our main thrust we even have a hashtag
hashtag honor them all because we feel and we recognize that a 40-foot tall Latin cross
on government land broadcast clearly that only Christian soldiers are being honored
Fred it's honoring all the men who died that are listed on that memorial how is it how
is it honoring sense despite your hashtag in 1985 the cross was declared to be in honor
of all veterans of all wars all veterans were not Christians all veterans include
Muslims Hindus Buddhists Jews atheists everybody and we want to honor them all that's the whole
point of our case but it's a memorial honoring them all the people on nonono pissed away
no it is not honoring them all it's a Christian cross that is 40 feet high illuminated at
night that you drive by it and all because it's one feet taii it's honoring people who
lost their lives I want to go to the Attorney General on this so a loora loora Court actually
ruled in favor of Fred and his group but you are leading the charge along with 30 states
filing amicus brief with the Supreme Court arguing against what they're trying to do
here why are you doing that you for having me on it's a very
important issue because if the Supreme Court doesn't reverse what just happened in the
Fourth Circuit we could be dealing with the situation where hundreds of memorials across
the country may be forced to be torn down and we think just as you indicated that the
purpose of this memorial is to honor the war dead we know when the peace cross was first
put together this was done to honor 49 individuals who fought in World War one and they were
commemorated now across the country there are memorials very similar to this but you
have to look at the context in which these memorials are set up the states and individuals
have the right to commemorate the dead and that's different that's not a purely
religious purpose quite the opposite that's a secular purpose and so we think this fits
very cleanly within the Establishment Clause jurisprudence we think that the court could
clarify this a little bit going forward but I think that this piece cross was done with
private funds this piece cross was done it was unchallenged for almost 90 years it's
been part of the fabric the historic tradition within the community and there's really no
reason to tear it down from a legal perspective well Fred and I want to talk to you about
this slippery slope problem here that the Attorney General just addressed and I also
want to read you a quote from the first Liberty president the CEO of Bladensburg memorial
cross Supreme Court case we have the quote alright so if this gravestone is bulldoze
to the
ground it's only a matter of time before the wrecking ball turns on Arlington National
Cemetery in the hundreds of memorials like this one across the country so I want to know
what your what you think of that Fred and also not only that you look at awards that
are given out military awards you've got the Army's Distinguished Service Cross the Navy
Cross the Air Force cross do you want all those removed as well are those not okay with
you no and this is not a gravestone it is a 40-foot tall Latin cross on a high way median
there's no doubt that a highway median is one government land and to not a sermon coerce
you into changing your a belief simply by seeing something it gives the impression that
no Jews are welcome in the city of Bladensburg it represents Bladensburg as though it were
a Christian Enclave when I first saw that cross when I first drove into Bladensburg
when I moved out here in 2003 I thought that is
ridiculous that just gives this impression right off to a right at the start it's unmistakable
and when it's illuminated at night all you see is this cross floating in the darkness
you don't know it's supposed to be a war memorial you can't tell and in fact the war memorial
aspects of it are so small and so minor they are dwarfed by the size of the cross in fact
when I first get the Attorney General's response to that because to me Fred it seems like you're
trying to push your opinion on everyone else in the state of Maryland as well at Ernie
Jo no your response no back in here as well this is a war memorial and in fact it's one
of several that's over at the location so there's a memorial to other wars that were
held throughout our country's history we know that the inscription on the memorial is secular
in nature talking
about valor talking about honor that you can actually have a memorial whose purpose is
mostly secular and in fact if you go back and you look at how many individuals who came
back from World War one were honored they were honored by crosses and their poems there
are stories that talk about the rows of crosses that were set up and it's meant to honor the
debt so you can really distinguish that so it really I think takes a stretch to say that
this is purely for religious purposes I think that the history bears out that this is primarily
for secular purposes and that once again if this cross were allowed to fall then you could
see Arlington some of the crosses they're in trouble in my home state in West Virginia
whether you're in Elkins whether you're at the State Capitol
there are a number of capitals that could fall because this starts to stretch First
Amendment jurisprudence and not the way the founders intended that's just ridiculous because
we have worked with Arlington National Cemetery to make sure that humanists and other non
their symbols on their tombstones we want a variety of symbols on tombstones because
we want to honor them all and those war memorials that are across the street from the Bladensburg
cross are secular in nature and we do not challenge them we support them we only challenge
the one that is a 40 foot tall that we like we've got it we've got to get going I'm sorry
Fred I don't agree with you I don't think you're honoring them at all but we've got
to end with that thank you both for joining me tonight thank
you much
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