Fox News: POOR & MINORITIES "Aren't Worth $15 An Hour"
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- Art Laffer, a former Reagan economic advisor, said that the poor, minorities, and the disenfranchised "aren't worth $15 an hour." Seriously. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. th-cam.com/users/tytlive
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"During a panel appearance with Austan Goolsbee on Tuesday about whether to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, conservative economist Art Laffer said that some workers just aren’t worth that much."
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I have no words for the unending greed of American CEOs.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works.
@@johnmartin4641 Gordon Gecko! !
@@daftwod Proof of that statement?
I'm pretty sure that it's the other way around, bub. When top economists are repeatedly and consequently more wrong than a magic 8 ball, you know that you've created a system that is inherently volatile.
@@daftwod Im going to ask for a source, please. And how has economic inequality developed in the same time period?
Piece of advice: Only people who don't know about the classification of human intelligence refer to IQ as an absolute measurement. Mostly it's people who themselves aren't exactly "the biggest dick in the sauna". But they're still dicks, though...
@@daftwod Then explain please how Indian and Chinese migrants in the US are vastly outperforming European Americans in every scientific field of study per capita? And how come the same isn't true about India and China in general?
If you eat well, get proper healthcare and is afforded access to a great education and opportunities you'll see that people of every colour and creed will do well in any test, including in your narrow view of human intelligence tests.
Whether you think that "capitalism" is the best system for providing that is another discussion. One in which you'll also be wrong, mind you. Among "rich nations" the US has the worst levels of education and general knowledge, and are the least informed populace. Correlation > < Causation.
Molyneaux and his ilk (the IQ racebaiters) have been debunked. Their "facts" are either erroneous, have serious methodological design or simply doesn't adjust for confounders in the referenced studies.
I'm not an authority, but as an MD in family medicine, I can tell you that no neuroscientist teaches the obsolete scientific views that you espouse. Just like we don't use Freud in psychiatry anymore....
If you choose to believe otherwise. Fine. Just know that it's just that. A belief.
That man, my friends, is why America is in the economic mess we're in, Art Laffer gave us the Laffer curve which directly gave us trickle down economics.
My father was an arch-conservative and one time about 20 years ago he hired a homeless guy to paint his house and paid him $3.00 an hour and was just so proud of how he was getting that cheap labor.I said to him “how can you do that to the poor guy?Aren’t things bad enough for him right now without this degradation?(at the time min.wage was about $6.00)He told me that’s what made him smart.That he could take advantage of this man’s desperation and get the work done cheap.Maybe that’s how I became a progressive was by having a father like that to show me the cruelty of conservative values.
Yup, similar story with me. My mom paid these 2 Mexicans less than what she told them and tried to use me and my brothers as bodyguards.
@@jermainemyrn19 this is the exact plan for corporations and conservatives- make the population so desperate ( by eliminating social safety nets, affordable healthcare, banning abortion, making people rent instead of affordable homes, Hiking food prices, etc.) that we work for pennies.
Wow!
It should be $25/hr now. Nowhere in the country can you survive on $15/hr
You can't even pay rent in most cities at $15 an hour. I can't believe that the Republican poor don't call out their own people on these issues. Disgusting.
THEY ARE AFRAID
You can’t pay rent on any major city at 15 an hour and buy groceries
@@ddham2452 they are so blinded by the Republican culture war BS that they just go along with terrible people like this.
They're sheep. They'll keep voting against their interests, as they think that the wave of their ignorance won't affect them....
They think and believe they're doing it to everyone else.
If you can't afford to pay 15 an hour, you don't deserve to run a business.
Denmark pays over $20 an hour...So apparently Denmark is the richest country in the world 🤣
@@RahXhephan Denmark is richest in quality of life, longevity and happiness. Please take several seats
It costs a great deal to run a business in the best economic climates. Forcing a new small business to pay a minimum of 15 per hour to everyone can be detrimental in the beginning. These employees may include people who have never had a job so from them you are not going to get the best output. Yet they would be receiving a wage commensurate with a good employee which they may not be. I got a messed up Big Mac yesterday and the idea that the person who made it is getting paid $15 an hour to serve me a crappy sandwich is not fair.
Again.... as a black American I love it when a far right conservative Trump republican shows his or her true colors when it comes to discrimination, bias, prejudice, and racism!!! (Pittsburgh, Pa)
I remember going to work for minimum wage ($3:35) back in 1981.
I worked on a farm. Back-breaking work. Soul crushing conditions. A 63 hour week netted me $186.
If that employer could have paid me less, he would have done so.
And happily gave campaigns big $$$ to try and influence to do so.
That's so wrong!
Corporations and the one percent are trying to make serfdom a thing again
How about banning millionaires and billionaires from serving as U.S. Senators. They couldn't be more out of touch with reality.
So true, so true. I would live these people to s I end some time in our shoes. Let's see what tune they sing then.
Just make senetors get minimum wage and bar them from using any other money while serving. . The rest of the problems will fix themselves.
They won't give a shit about being paid minimum wage in office. Their salaries are already but a pittance to them. They're wealthy before they ever get to Capitol Hill, and they just get richer once they're there, with all the kickbacks and back-office payoffs and insider trading deals.
No, if you really want politicians who give a shit, you need to put a very low cap on the net worth of who is allowed to run for office. 80% of elected representatives should be chosen from a pool of folks who make less than $60k/year. Anyone making more should have very little sway in the dealings of government.
The rich have been representing themselves in government for far too long. It will continue for as long as we allow them to keep deciding what's best for the rest of us.
@@ONEWONDERSHOW Yeah, just make them do it.
Just do it, bro.
I don't see anything that's keeping the public from doing just that...
Campaign finance act under nixon tells it all! Republican party was the w0rkers party and backed by unions until that point! When they allowed corporations to bankroll campaigns they signed our death cert as workers! Does anyone think the Republican party stands behind workers rights or wages? We cant compete with the Koch brothers
"Conservatives say If you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest.Then they say as for the poor, they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money." ~George Carlin
What is wrong with people? Do you NOT appreciate the luxuries that these 'poor people' give you? Delicious lattes, pre-grown/farmed groceries at your fingertips, advanced medical care, gas and other conveniences/necessities available to buy at 2am. These people and the jobs they do are VALUABLE!!! If YOU would not take these jobs for the sub-par wages they are offering, why do you expect anyone else to?
Who cares let the rich work their own jobs and less see how that works
As a hotel manager who was laid off in the pandemic I’ll tell you something...the whole hotel industry had a labor shortage YEARS before the pandemic hit! Every hotel struggles to get and keep employees and it’s because they pay pennies for rough jobs. Jobs that I know most Karens would cry having to do for even a day.
Where you dropped on your head's???
@@morningmoon215 Not intentionally as you where by your mom... because she wanted "a real stupid one" it seems ;)
WOW! Good one. The best part about your nasty comment was that mine wasn't aimed at you. And you in all your magnificent wisdom chose to be a douche. I have no time for people that don't care about their family's. Insult me all you like. But honestly you need to not be so offended be word's and look into the policies that hurt other's. It's a big world out there. And politicians don't give a damn about you or your family. Only theirs. Just sayin. Nastiness is not helping you.
@@morningmoon215 but you have time to write a nasty comment aimed at me? A comment you didn’t even have time to proof read? You think I’m concussed or something because I think hard working service workers deserve better pay from work that people like you and me benefit from?
That guy isn't worth the oxygen he uses.
Since we started talking about this, $15 isn't even enough anymore. Should $20 we're talking about.
And none of yall on fox are worth $10 a hour..
At FOX, they’re not worth paying anything at all !!!!
Minorities and Poor... what he's saying is, that skill and experience doesn't matter, only whether you are White AND Wealthy.
@Uriah Thomas : That's not what he said. You'd know if you had spent time listening instead of wasting it trying to come up with an insult.
The supposed " elites " should remember that the " poor " outnumber the elites 100 to 1 🤔
Sadly I'm pretty sure it's a thousand or more to one. If us American people did mass protests across the country we could change things. Sadly we can't afford to protest cause we need to eat and work
And you need to remember you don’t need spaces in between quotes.
Yeah and I think it's time for poor people to start pushing their weight Heavily on these priveleged assholes! There's more of us so let's do something about it.
The problem is that the 'poor' (many of them at least) are still happily watching fox news and shovelling down racist BS. AND they'll continue to do so, cos at least that's one thing that makes them feel better about themselves...
Republicans and Corporations complaining about paying $15/hour, in New Zealand the minimum wage is $21.20/hour, as well as employees are entitled to 4 weeks paid leave per year and 10 days paid sick leave per year. We also have 26 weeks paid parental leave. Workers here have far more rights than workers in the US.
You Kiwis rock! Sending you my love from Texas! 🎉
@@popkick8350 Thank you, we have our problems, but we try to sort them out like civilised people.
That part! "Not even $15.00 an hour is a 'Living wage'." Ana nailed it. Everybody needs to get that.
And just a few months ago these same people were considered "essential" workers, just sayin'.
You are absolutely right. We were considered essential workers putting our health on the line, serving these people while making squat.
We were only paid in claps.
@@marcusgaunt8222 he is absolutely right. You are "just wrong and clueless". Do you not remember the grocery workers, restaraunt employees, gas station workers, factory workers, transport workers, delivery drivers and mail workera that had to continue working at great risk with an all too often ungrateful public. Did you know that people in other countries that you think aren't " as great" work part-time jobs and earn as much as full-time minimum wage workers? Did you know that American blue collar workers have longer work weeks and less compensation and benefits than most of our counterparts? Did you know we have the least job protection and wage parity. We should be embarrassed and stop acting like crabs trying to hold each other in the pot.
Poor aren't worth $15 an hour is like saying to rich people they don't deserve to be rich.
$15 won't make the poor rich, it'll just mean they can get by without needing 2 jobs.
Depends on where
Are people really blatantly talking like this? Right in your face racism.
If minorities would come together we could show the world our worth
They were not saying that when essential workers kept the country running during the pandemic. Everyone was hailing them . Now they are not worth 15?
Typical Republican garbage
@@mikeveis2395 yep
If large corporations could get away with paying their minimum wage workers. Two slices of bread, a slice of bologna and a cup of water for eight to twelve hours work, they would.
Greed is the root of all evil in America and the world.
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That's still sounds to costly to them.
@@bricedunn7300 They would have to work overtime to get mustard and mayo packs for their sandwich.😆
Compared to inflation
Minimum wage should actually be 23.00
If you want to get real
15 dollars is still a major discount
America will crumble from their own greed and cruelty
Just watch
$100.00 an hour should be the minimum, and after taxes, at that.
$15hr × 40hr week= $600 a week
$600 - taxes = $450 a week
That's $1800 a month or $21,000 a year. $15hr. is still not a livable wage!
Finally someone with basic reasoning. I make 15 and my life is still hard.
Maybe, just maybe... if you pay people a decent wage the government won't have to cover the rest. It should be coming out of the shareholders, and corporations pockets, and not the governments pockets.
And is not that they will starve if that happens Yvonne. They will just make a little less.
Rich: Poor, uneducated, people don't deserve to live a comfortable life
Also Rich: WHY DO THE POOR HATE US?!?!?!?
@@justme-ti1rh What a very stupid thing to say.
If you can't afford to pay your employee's a living wage then you don't deserve to have any employee's.
So only multi-billion dollar companies deserve to exist? Like Amazon and McDonalds?
@@shr00mhead You shouldn't be starting a company if you cannot afford to pay your employee's a living wage
@@shr00mhead Name one business or industry that you think can't afford to pay a living wage and explain why.
And explain why you assume I support multi billion dollar corporation's. I absolutely hate them! They're the ones that put small business owners like me out of business! Soo what the actual fvck? If I hired an apprentice straight out of highschool they would make no less than 19$ an hour, with all of the benefit's, 401k, health insurance, and paid vacations. And I can do that with any business! How? Because I know how to run a successful business.
What I mean with my original comment is that if they can't afford to pay living wages, they are bad business owner's, and that's why they don't deserve to have employee's.
@@herbsewell4995 Good point! The main reason most businesses fail is poor management, not loss of customers, higher taxes, wage increases or any other excuse. Just poor management. Congratulations on running a successful business!
"I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of billions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence." - Debs
Anything under $25 is not liveable wage.
Say it again for the people in the nose bleed section.
God forbid anyone gets paid $15 an hour to flip burgers which usually also includes cleaning bathrooms, cleaning cooking equipment, ushering food to vehicles, and most importantly, dealing with mean spirited and entitled customers quite often.
Tha Karen's are tha worst.
People are not worth a living wage??? Not very pro life of them.
They say pro life? More like anti-tax, anti-tax for wealthy! And wealthy doesn't want to pay others what they're worth!
Well said
It's always been a cape, they're pro life until the baby is born then they could care less about the living conditions it has to live in.
🤣
Who the hell is he to decide what people are worth!
How can the strongest economy in the world, justify paying third world wages and conditions?
With all of the subtle racism coming from fox news, is this SERIOUSLY surprising?
HELL NO!!!!!
Subtle?
Real americans realize fox news is bs! Dont buy into it! Unite rather than divide
When you consider how many of these underpaid people voted for the GOP,... they're thinking "Yes, we're poor, but at least we're not as poor as those 'other' people". Everyone in that system feels the need to feel like they are above another group of people in that society. They hate the word socialism and don't even know what it means... It's a shame.
Those of us who barely survived Reagan’s “trickle down economics” are still waiting for it to do that….trickle down.
it's trickle up that's why. Or vacuum up to an exponentially increasing extent
Any of.us commenting or watching pay less.than 10 percent tax like the people whom instigate our division while they steal our pensions?
Like piss hitting a urinal
And you will keep waiting, Frankiejean. It was a lie then and it is still a lie now.
They're right poor and minority is not worth $15 an hour.they should get $18
I worked at Walmart starting in 2017... $9 for 90 days then u get $10. 2 yrs later they bumped it up to $10 then after ur “probation period “ $11. Well I didn’t get my yearly raise Walmart said my whole 25 cent raise was included when it went to $11. So I didn’t make $11.25 ... people that started 2 yrs after me were making the same as me. But, it was worse for people who had been there for 6 or 8 yrs because then THEY were making the same as a new hire. Instead of bumping them up , after busting their butt for 6 yrs or longer were not making any more money. You can’t take off more than 4 days or u get fired. If u get sick, you have to go through a separate company to take a medical leave of absence and have your dr fill out probably 10 pages of paperwork, and then half the time they reject it if the dr misses a single question, and then you go back to ur dr and have them fill it out AGAIN. Most of the time the doctors don’t understand why all the paperwork for getting the flu? Why can’t I write you an excuse? Because Walmart does not take written Drs excuses.
So, I started my own business from home... so I can finally quit. I bust my butt working for multi billion $$ Walmart, who only gave us a total of $300 bonus through a global pandemic (because we are essential workers) that was our hazard pay. 2 separate payment of $150 that was taxed. They are screwing hard working people... they aren’t bums. Unloading trucks, dealing with screaming customers cuz they wouldn’t wear masks, I walked 5-6 miles a day while at work. So I took a leap of faith working for myself, I’d rather work my butt off for myself and make a weeks wages in a couple of days. But nobody takes on Walmart. Sad. That was insulting.
@Erin's Style Channel • I will never forget a news story that aired years ago about Walmart. The newscast was about; Ulta low wages, and expected top notch work performance from the employees, by Walmart's upper echelon. So the hired mouthpiece speaking on all the joys Walmart's employees are benefitting from working there, was simultaneously giving a brief tour "behind the scenes, all the while extolling the satisfaction of the work crew. During this behind the scenes tour, they went into the employee lunch/break room. In the room there was a food donation box that employees could donate into. The donations were for OTHER WALMART EMPLOYEES who were unable to make ends meet The paid lip service tried to put a positive spin on it, categorizing it as, "Our employees are so outstanding, they even look out for their other workmates:" As opposed to how it looked, which was;. "Despite working here full time, some of our employees still can't make ends meet, and other employees have generously & voluntarily come forward with food donations". I was floored!! Talk about a lack of self awareness, AND making the employees point on their complaint of low wages. To this day I still wonder did this person ever realize the visual presented, and the fact that she practically confirmed the point employees were complaining about. Amazon too, is purported to be another slave laborer. I see delivery drivers running to leave packages, then jet off to the next delivery. People, there are more of us than them!!! UNITE FOR THE FIGHT FOR A LIFE LIVED RIGHT!!! Bezos just debuted his $40,000,000+ yacht. Forty million, on what is no more to him, than a toy!! And how was your day?!?!?
The rich are the problem not the poor
If they're "not worth it" then stop using any service that pays less than $15 an hour. Stop eating out, stop having clean hotel rooms, stop shopping at most stores. I hate how these people act like they've always been on top and never wanted more from themselves and their families.
Chipotle is claiming they have to raise prices because of a 15.00 an hour minimum wage. Bet their execs are still getting millions in bonuses.
In my opinion, we have some of the stupidest people on the planet claiming to be "experts"! Minimum wage should be $22.00/hour if you really understand the economic system and taxes on people who are making over a million dollars a year should be 33% with NO deductions or expense write offs and the cut off for payment into Social Security should be 1 million...if they paid their fair share of taxes we would not be increasing the deficit to pay for infrastructure.
I started working at age 15 for $7.50 per hour. When I turned 16 (1986) I got another part-time job in fast food for $8.50 per hour.
I moved into a 1-BR duplex by myself at 18 on that rate of pay.
There is absolutely no reason that any employer should not be paying *at least* $15 per hour 30 years later.
Every one of those Senators is at least a millionaire! They all depend on big business for donations. They also need business to prosper so their stocks go up. Don't count on the government to protect workers, we must unionize!
Nothing says “fascist” like the conviction that the poor are worthless.
If employers can't pay or afford to pay a living wage (greater than $14.99/hour), then they shouldn't be in business.
This!!!!!! All day👏🏾
Exactly!
By the time they agree to $15/hr, it'll be time to push for $20/hr
Thats what they're hoping for, the ole ATeam "I Love it When A Plan Comes Together"
If wages kept up with inflation, minimum wage should be $22-24 per hour. Look at what everything costs now compared to what people still get paid.
It’s sad as Hell that somebody thinks $15 an hour is a livable wage
@@justme-ti1rh It's sad that Americans have become a society that lives to work rather works to live and the saddest thing of all is that you are fighting to keep it that way.
I've told this before.
In 1981 I got a job framing as a laborer at $10 per hour. Today in my state 40 freaking years later that same job starts at $12 per hour, because it's a " right to work state".
It's actually a " right to starve state".
And yes I want that kid at Wendy's making $15 per hour. Then maybe that single mother at Target might just get a LIVABLE wage.
Let me guess , younlive in arkansas
@@aaronsansbury9514 next door damn close
15 an hour equates to 26 to 27 grand a year after taxes. Could you imagine being so out of touch with the working class to think even the most minimal jobs do not deserve such little pay. I can't believe we're still debating such a small income.
This country has spoiled you. 15 an hour comes out to 31,200 a year. Now I’m this country that is considered living in poverty. But if you look at it worldwide do you realize making 31k a year puts you in the top 20% on the planet? If you make 15 an hour you will make more money than 80% of the people on this planet.
They are not worth $15 per hour. They are worth $25 per hour.
Actually 33 dollars per hour.
@@justme-ti1rh you’re a moron. I bet you’re the type of person to scream “they’re stealing our jobs” and then be ok with automation actually stealing out jobs
@@justme-ti1rh not only do these computers take jobs away, they force you to work for free .
I am British - I get 31.5 days PAID leave every year! The usual is 20 days! And all National holidays (there are 7) PAID on top! We have a Work Life Balance so it’s not work work work! And I pay taxes for my medical treatments I NEVER pay thousands for treatment! At most £10 - that’s less than 10$ and I see my GP for free! I have NO medical debts! I do not require any medical insurance! So......America is the greatest country in the world to live in? Really?!!!
Thank u for that. America is a glass half full they want people to believe Its a great. Working class here is modern day slaves
Glad I live in the UK. The utopia that is America is a delusional belief. The American dream was dreamt up by the corporations. Live the american dream, work hard, get rich. No the dream is work hard, then die, then they get another to replace them. So the cycle goes on. European ideas of working times is the future.
Some of the rich today didn't work for what they have, they inherited it. Wish all of us could experience this.
I would say most of them did, Nancy. Very few people got rich from hard work alone.
@@tureytaino2785 I agree. There's a lie that even Trump has quit telling Because it's been so soundly disproven.
And that's that with a mere million dollars from dear old
dad he created this massive real estate empire. And declares bankruptcy six times.
But the truth is that he cheated his relatives out of valid claims they had. He even cut off the insurance for one of his nephews who suffers from a number of serious ailments.
He's a greedy, lying, and cruel man. As are most of his ilk.
In the 1980's we just worked 2 jobs and went to school.all through our 20's then finally got jobs in the 1990's , when we were 30 something and were able to keep them when Clinton got elected. Reagan years were not kind to young workers.
If these companies can't afford to pay their workers at least $15 an hour then they shouldn't be in business.
Oh, but they can. They just don´t want to, Gerard.
I don't understand what he means by the poor in general. One of my coworkers is near retirement age so she's a long term worker, who knows the job well, but she's still poor. So even though she has vast experience, she doesn't deserve a little better pay? That doesn't make any since. Plus, teens also need an acceptable wage. They're supposed to be getting themselves ready to step into the real world while they have their family to lean on, before they're thrown into the wind. Most of them are working to help their families out or to try and pay for college to get themselves a better job but because they can't afford to pay for a semester because of the job they're trapped at, so they are also just stuck being poor. Most of us out here don't have their parents money to ride on.
I want to be a model citizen and do it right but I'm literally being backed into a corner where selling drugs or my body seems like it's the only thing that I can do to even get ahead. It shouldn't be like this.
As a worker, you are providing your services to work for this shit company so the big wigs don't have to. That is what they are paying you for, your services. If companies want to complain about what you feel like you're worth, then they can take their ass back to the front lines and start checking people out, and making the food, and greeting the customers.
I'm educated and a single parent who makes barely more than $15 an hour and it's not possible to live an this wage in Portland, Oregon
$15 hour won't even cover rent in West Virginia. Don't know how Portland OR expects that either.
So no CEO or CFO or billionaire is worth their "pay."
Increasing minimum wage Is stimulating the economy because that money gets spent. Not wanting to increase minimum wage makes no sense.
The same people who are against the $15.00 minimum wage are also against affordable housing
Affordable housing would cost the mortgage crooks trillions! Of course they hate it!
“Let them eat cake”! Millionaire and billionaires are not worth what they are paid, and need to pay taxes.
No more borrowing against shares and paying nothing in taxes.
I bet you own some AMC... I do tooo. 🤘
To be fair the wealthy pay 40% of their taxes and 86% of charity in the United States
@@bretday7828 To be fair, bullshit. They know all the loopholes and tax breaks. And as far as the charity thing goes... I'm not religious but I love the story about the wealthy man and the beggar woman. The wealthy man dropped a shit load of money into the church coffer then he looked around and bragged about it and accepted everyone's accolades for it. Afterwards the beggar woman dropped what would be the equivalent of a penny or two into the coffer. The wealthy prick sneered at her and mocked her for her teeny contribution. Then Jesus stepped in and announced that the beggar gave more. The money the wealthy pos dropped in the box was nothing to him, the smallest fraction of his wealth. The beggar woman, however, gave more because she gave everything she had. Rich people can shove that charity dance they do right up their you know what. We all know they can and do write it off on their taxes and we all know how fat their ego is after they announce their contributions. Gag. Certainly don't brag to me about it.
Funny thing is the prices have already risen by 25 - 30 % ....
so.... the $15 an hour minimum is no longer enough.
This is disgusting as is The Laffer Curve, Trickle Down. I have a blue collar worker son. In 2008 he got a broken back at work. The following ten years have been a horrible fight for healthcare and figuring out if he can try a new career.
It’s just strange to me how conservatives on tv present themselves as movie villains and half the country is like “yes, I agree”
I thought they would try to hide their evil better. Nope, they just flat out say evil, racist sht and people make excuses saying they didn’t mean that, they’re not racist, etc.
Half the country wants to be the villain.
They are on that lead paint man! Dont let them win by causing division! Unite!
About 40% Republicans are about power at any cost. Atmosphere of division and violence is One aspect of the republican party. It's a gang mentality with members such as proud boys, White Nationalist which is relatively new, Oath keepers and of course the unusual white supremacists, and the Deniers of the election followers of the Big Lie. That's about 70% of the Republican party. 30% will be ridicule for not following blindly like Senator Chaney.
@@chachaguillotine187 Not really. Unless you mean the GOP leadership.
My Mother was telling me about assholes saying the same thing back when the minimum wage was $2.90 hr.
When I started working minimum wage was 75 cents an hour. You had to be on the job for 2 years to be considered for a 10 cent raise.
Things were different then but they still didn't want to pay people to work.
Things really haven't changed much. That was in the early sixties.
Cost of living has sky rocketed, but minimum wage wage has inched.
Minimum wage should be at least $20 an hour to meet the basic cost of living
I have nephews who wouldn't do stoop labor picking crops for $50 an hour, much yet $15. Or any of their friends either. But let's keep people out who'd bust their ass to pick crops in the Central Valley of California or the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas and let this valuable and desperately needed food rot in the ground or wither on the vine.
Exactly
That's sad but true they would rather throw it away and all the people whining and complaining not down there pickling there crops
15 an hour is a livable wage! Low pay is creating a permanent underclass.
From someone who isn't worth what he's paid.........
$15 an hour is literally nothing… so people are not even worth 31k a year? You can’t even be approved to rent a crappy studio apartment in the Bronx for that salary.
Alot of places for rent want 3x the rent, it's hard as hell to get by. Let alone get ahead🙄
@@marcusgaunt8222 I’m saying brokers or renters in the bronx want you to make 3x the rent. Even for a crappy studio in a crappy neighborhood. All small bare basic apartments require you to make at LEAST $40K a year. And that’s for a $1.1K apartment which is extremely rare. Most studios in BX run around $1,400 starting if your lucky. So you have to make at LEAST $50K a year to be approved. All for a standard crappy studio that will definitely have issues and roaches.
I love that old people still think the minimum wage should be 4 dollars and government cheese.🙄🙄🙄 wtf, grandpa.
Lol. Government cheese should be eliminated as well.
just me economic slavery should be allowed.
Gift-economy.
if flipping burgers isnt worth 15$ an hour guess people dont want fast food anymore.
My question is if they're blatantly saying this on live TV why does these people keep voting for them?
Abortion, guns, racism. Take your pick.
@@jamesgravil9162 so these republican voters care about all that so much there contempt with letting their government keep them poor? Damn and I thought I had issues.
I will never understand why people vote against their own best interests!
@@kylebailey2094 I couldn't agree with you more.
So insulting how dare he says the hardest working people don’t deserve a living wage
the french were right to guillotine rich people
How horrible. He does not think it"s a tragedy...he would love to keep things as they are. The most difficult jobs I have had were early, unskilled labor jobs. So much respect for workers who are making under $15.00/he. ❤️
Yeah restraunts are fine working you to the bone for that 8 dollars an hour. Took me a decade to break out of that cycle.
We always have to "justify" why workers should make $15 an hour, but NO ONE ever justifies why the same company's CEO is paid $120 million with bonuses?!! And, don't forget, some of those same companies can't afford to pay employee benefits! #Murica
15 $ / hour minimum wage can help the economy. Is that good for the corporation? '
Yes and they get taxcuts when those billions they get should go to health, education welfare, infrastructure. Free college education. Like we got slot of intelligent people who can probably find those hackers from Russia and play games with them instead of trying to get blackmail money.
@@manueldaniel108 Envy will get you nowhere in life. And it's not governments job to provide health, education welfare, and 90% of what the Federal government does. In fact, it's illegal.
@@zappafan1176 I'm not jealous of anyone. if they got what I don't got doesn't make them better than me. I work for what I got. Make it pYdY to payday like most people. But I don't look up to people or idolize anyone we are in the same boat. I don't like super rich and don't want to give them my taxpayer money. Most are brainwashed like they deserve it.. the get snobby and snotty think they better than you.
@@manueldaniel108 I did the same before I retired at age 45. But if you believe the job of being a CEO, CFO, etc is easy, you have another think coming. And, it's up to the shareholders to determine if the people who hold those positions are worth the money. As a business owner I know that companies sometimes receive taxpayer funds for capitol investments. There's no such thing as corporate "welfare."
Just showing how they dont understand inflation. Even at 15 dollar minimum, we would make less than my grandparents did.
People go to school paying thousands of dollars a year to end up getting a job that doesn't pay their worth. Wages are bad across the board. Poor, minority etc has nothing to do with it. Then, after spending all that money on your education, you get trapped in the vicious cycle of employers saying you need experience to get what you're worth. So guess where alot of those educated folks end up. In minimum wage jobs.
Reaganomics is why we have a huge ass wealth gap. It's also what's been making the rich richer and the poor poorer. I wouldn't listen to a thing that anyone who helped ruin this country economically just to give the wealthy free money
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$15 per hour is about $29k per year. What the problem is these rich people are still thinking in 1980's terms. How much buying power did $29k have in the 1980's? In today's money that has the same buying power as about $110k. Their brain is stuck in the 1980's, they look at workers applying for level entry jobs and think "I can't let these kids make more money in their first job than what I made in my first job".
And the fact that there is an adviser from the Regan era arguing against a $15 minimum wage proves my point.
The most woke comment on here sincerely positive vibes for you and yours thanks for keeping it real !
@@xaviermassey1275 And in British Columbia Canada this month they just implemented a $15 minimum wage. So, it can be done! That is in Canadian dollars, mind you.
$110k is still nothing. Don’t pretend it’s a great as you claim.
They also don't allow minimum wage workers to have 40 hours per week, that is why so many work two and three jobs to make ends meet. I feel for these people, I make 58,000 a year and am still pay check to pay check (the high taxes I pay are criminal), I can't imagine having to work minimum wage (which was 4.25 hr when I entered the work force) in today's economy.
@@justme-ti1rh Sounds like you have a judgmental, even though you don't know a darn thing problem. Which most bought & paid for bots running rampant on this site do. The only problem I have is a living in America's inflated economy. I am not poor, never said I was...but Americans working minimum wage are cash poor...just do the math stupid!!! I venture to say, you don't make that much either, otherwise, why are you trolling on TH-cam...get yourself a hobby, maybe golf since you are so rich.
So just because a person is young or new at the job or an immigrant, they don’t deserve to earn enough money in a month to pay their bills and feed their family.
And minorities, just because your skin colour is different, no matter what your education is your abilities, you don’t deserve 15/hour? Idiots! How much is he paid to say GARBAGE. Should be 2$/hour
They assume the people taking these jobs are kids living at home with their parents. They don’t acknowledge that all the manufacturing jobs they sold out to China and other countries are no longer available and that real workers with families are having to take these low wage jobs to survive. They’re living in the past and assume it’s still like that, despite the fact that they destroyed the economy they’re basing these outdated ideas on.
I graduated college in 2010 with a bachelors degree, and was looking for a job in my field. I was asking for starting wage of $16-$18 an hr. I was told by multiple companies that the best they could pay me was 11 dollars an hr. I could have gone to any retail store at the time and get paid the same amount, which I ended up doing (and got paid $12 an hr starting). I was told by one small business owner who interviewed me that he didn't value college degrees because colleges "just push through and graduate any bozo these days".
And billionaires aren’t worth billions.
If everyone refuses to deliver packages for less than 20 dollars per hour it will be immediately worth this.
$15 an hour would've been liveable in Cali 30yrs ago
One freaking bedroom apartment, in a shiiiity town in Cali is $1100/ month. Like, seriously 😐
@@Shorts-wo5qp ,it's that low? A two bedroom in Denver is 1800 a month...a 1 bedroom is 1200 to 1500 a month. California has to be around 2,000 a month for a 1 bedroom. Maybe your shitty part is dead on!
@@dukeblair7792 That's the lowest you can get. And the increase it 6% every year. My point is, who can afford living with even $15/h.
@@Shorts-wo5qp , of course! I was just pointing out that other areas probably charge more.
@@justme-ti1rh I do in Inglewood and rent is getting crazy 1300 to 1500 for a one bedroom 1800 to 2400 for two bedroom. These prices would've have been Mortgages in the early 2000s now it's rent.
$15/hr is too low, and rent is too high.
I don’t think it is too low. Depends on where you live. In most states, 15 dollars an hour is plenty as long as you don’t have anyone else to care for. if you do have people to care for and are making 15 an hour, your doing something wrong.
@@serbianmonkeyclub1146 they believe the tax payers should be pay for their life choices
Turn Me On Deadman I don’t understand what you mean.
@@serbianmonkeyclub1146 I don’t have kids & $15/hr is NOT ENOUGH. When I was making $18/hr it was a LITTLE better. even now that I make $25 I really still feel as though I’m just above poverty level with all the inflation 💯
Love Jones And you know who could blame for the inflation right? Biden. Pumping all the stimulus money into our economy does almost nothing. sure, it helps short term, but when everyone has money and everyone is spending that, prices will go up. Our economy is going to crash before the end of Biden’s presidency, I’ll bet money on that.
In Australia our Minimum wage is $19.84 plus 10% Superannuation payment. Plus penalty rates on top for weekends or night work.
Businesses survive just well here. The more money people make the more they spend back in local businesses.
Yeah you'd think the people in power (that can use it) would have figured that out right?
If the job is so insignificant then do it yourself!
God!!!!! I hate this planet!!!!!!! I'm ready to just go anywhere but here!!!!!!!!
Bout time you get $15 it’s gone be time to fight for $20. At this rate of inflation
It's already well past the time to fight for $20.
Glad I live in Australia with our Min wage, $19.84 per hour, or award wages differ. Even teens in Australia get more then what America is offering.
McDonald's workers in Denmark make $22 an hour and have six weeks of paid vacation.
But but... it's socialism. They also have healthcare.
@@vg7985 when is a elected government socialism ?
@@richardlane8916 (Sarcastic comment is sarcastic)
@@tim3172 lol
Richard Lane, socialism is economic system and has nothing to do with elections. Just a reminder of what you were ( or should be) taught in 4th grade- political systems can be democratic or authoritarian, or something between and they are based on how elections are organized and how accountable elected officials are to their electorate.
Economic systems are based on property rights with capitalism where everything, except military and courts, is privately owned and communism where ownership of everything, except personal items, is public. Socialism is economic system of mixed private and public ownership. All countries have some socialism in their economies . Question is how much.
Countries can be politically authoritarian and have capitalist, socialist or communist economic systems or democratic and have capitalist, socialist or communist economic systems.
Communist economic systems often uses authoritarian political systems because they get sanctioned by other countries and democratic policies would threaten their survival. Capitalist economic system usually turns into authoritarian regimes when middle class is eliminated and economy becomes not stable and public unrest starts.
I used to work for Amazon where Automation was part of the work day, but guess what, the robots failed constantly and the computers didn't much work either as it wouldn't tell the truth so no one knew what was really going on where, it was a JOKE.
I knew it! 🤣
@@bodhisattva2348 someone get that man a medal
If minimum wage had kept up with everything else it would be $24 an hour, so $15 is a bargain. $15 only comes out to $600 a week before taxes....
And after taxes you'd be lucky to clear $500. So take home means you can get a monthly bus ticket, a studio apartment and have some food that doesn't come from the church pantry down the street. You get to have rami with your rami yum, not...
@@wendypursel3142 I was making $15 in Portland, and I still got fired from a job for taking the bus because I couldn't afford a car or to take uber all the time. I had just enough for food, rent, bus, and had $150 left over. That ain't enough for a car, insurance, gas, etc.
@@chachaguillotine187 Exactly! How can these experts not understand the cost of life. It seems to me they are handed much more and feel as if everyone else has the same as them. I've worked for high ranking business people and they were given everything by their employer but I had to skrimp to pay my own medical, dental etc.You're right $150 is not enough even if you own the car outright.
Slavery was never abolished, it was changed to include people of all races an renamed “The Work Force”
@@justme-ti1rh every Friday when they pick up there check
Gobig Orange Hey atleast, we can choose our slave owner now? 🙃
$15 isn't a livable wage!!!! That's only 2,000 a month at best, which is only 24,000 a year without taxes being taking out.
@@justme-ti1rh that should have been raised over the years as well.
Exactly. $15/hr is definitely not a livable wage.
Where do the increased productivity numbers come from? Not from the wealthy, corporations, or do-nothing republicons.
And people are actually fighting each other while the top 1% think like this.
I dont care if the job is picking goddamn gum off the sidewalk. If you deem that job important then give that person a living wage. If it's not worth for you to pay a living wage then do it your fkn self!