1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,560 Speaker 1: There are two things right now that if you're listening 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: to me, you need to know about that's going on, 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:10,400 Speaker 1: and both of them are significant. One is this spending 4 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: bill that has nothing to do with COVID nineteen relief. 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:17,440 Speaker 1: They're gonna send you a fourteen hundred bucks, same amount 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 1: they're going to send to a legal immigrants, same amount 7 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 1: that they give to illegal immigrants. That's how little they 8 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:25,159 Speaker 1: think of you, the American people. This the Democrats doing this. 9 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: John Kennedy had a brilliant point to say about this, sender, 10 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 1: Kenny saying, this is a nothing but a neo socialist 11 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: wish list from the Democratic Party. And this is not 12 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: about helping Americans. It certainly is not about COVID nineteen relief, 13 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: because what one percent of the bill is actually dealing 14 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: with COVID nineteen. Take a listen to this clip from Fox. 15 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: Ninety five percent of President Biden's bill is not going 16 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: to even be spent until two thousand and twenty two 17 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 1: and beyond. This isn't a coronavirus bill. This is a 18 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: left of linen neo socialist wish list. I mean, it 19 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,839 Speaker 1: just is. It is chock full of spending porn. They've 20 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: got money for transit projects and bridges and language preservation 21 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 1: billions for people who are in our country illegally. I 22 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: am all for spending additional moneies to combat the coronavirus. 23 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: But this bill isn't it. You know, this bill isn't it. 24 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 1: And the point that he's making is absolutely right, is 25 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: that none of this money is going to be spent 26 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: for a while. This is just a big spending bill 27 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: in the name of COVID. Right, We've got you over 28 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: a barrel, We've freaked you out. We've told you that 29 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: you cannot pose any of this because it is a 30 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: COVID bill, and the COVID bill you cannot say no 31 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 1: to because it has the word COVID in it. Now, 32 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: while this is all going on, and we'll get into 33 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: a little bit more about the bill, there's something else 34 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: that's happening right now that they are using the COVID 35 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 1: bill to distract you, and that is the big fight 36 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: for minimum wage increase. We now know that there's some 37 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: Republicans that are fighting for a minimum wage increase. The 38 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,799 Speaker 1: number that they're going for the romneys of the Republican Party. 39 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: They're now demanding ten dollars an hour minimum wage in 40 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: this country. We'll debate the ten arbitrary number in a moment, 41 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: but fifteen dollars is where the Democrats are right now. 42 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: Fifteen dollars what the Democrats want. Fifteen dollars what the 43 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: Democrats demand. It's what they've said that is the only 44 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: amount of money that they will actually tolerates, the only 45 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:49,359 Speaker 1: amount of money that they will accept. Now, there are 46 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: Democrats right now that are very upset that this may 47 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: not happen. There's going to be a lot of Americans 48 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: that will be unemployed. In fact, that the Congressional Budget 49 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: Office says that if if you do pass fifteen dollarminum wage, 50 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: which is exactly what all of us knew anyway, but 51 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: they've confirmed it now, is that you're gonna lose millions 52 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 1: of jobs. It may lift some people out of poverty, 53 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: but it's also going to have millions of Americans that 54 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: will then either be underemployed. And the definition of underemployed 55 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: is an important one that everybody should understand when you're 56 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: arguing over fifteen dollar minum wage. Being under employed means this, 57 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 1: you don't have the number of hours that you need 58 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: to make a living when you have numbers that go up. 59 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: Right when you when you have the numbers, or when 60 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: you have the dollar per hour go up, many employers 61 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 1: will cut you back. It's what happened with the Obamacare mandate. 62 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: Obamacare mandate, you had millions of Americans that became underemployed 63 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: overnight because of a healthcare bill. And you may say, well, 64 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: how do those two go hand in hand. It's a 65 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: great question. Obamacare underemployed Americans with Obamacare, Obama Biden did 66 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: by mandating that if you did forty hours a week, 67 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: you had to be you had to be given healthcare. 68 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: You had to have healthcare offered as an employer, right, 69 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: That's something you had to do. You absolutely had to 70 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: have this certain amount of care because all americanserve healthcare. 71 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 1: If you show up and work forty hours a week 72 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: the actual number was thirty hours. If you were employed 73 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 1: more than thirty hours or more is how the law 74 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: was written, you had to offer healthcare. There's a lot 75 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: of jobs that could not offer healthcare. There was a 76 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: lot of people that couldn't afford it. So what ended 77 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: up happening you under employed people. You went to somebody 78 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 1: that had a job that they were happy with where 79 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 1: they were getting forty hours a week, right, and then 80 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: they turned it to thirty hours a week, or actually 81 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 1: twenty nine to make sure because your HR department said, look, 82 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: don't let anybody go over twenty nine hours, right, don't 83 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: let anyone go over twenty nine hours. If you let 84 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: them go over twenty nine hours, if you do that, 85 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 1: then you have to offer them healthcare. They were there 86 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,359 Speaker 1: was a way where they're saying, there's no doubt, you 87 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 1: gotta have this twenty nine hours. So then people lost 88 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: their their full time status. They went to part time, 89 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 1: which then caused another problem. You had two options as 90 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: an employee at that point. Option one was be under 91 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 1: employed or go find another job to make up the 92 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: hours you just lost. Because of an arbitrary rule with 93 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,559 Speaker 1: Obamacare that was trying to force employ your small business 94 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 1: owners and others to give out healthcare when they couldn't 95 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 1: afford it, it was impossible to do what they were demanding. 96 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: It underemployed millions of Americans. Millions of Americans had then 97 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: go find two jobs instead of one. It was a problem. 98 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: Fast forward to the debate. Now you pay you a 99 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: fifteen dollars hour minium wage. There are some people, no 100 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 1: doubt that will come out of quote poverty, will have 101 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:55,600 Speaker 1: a livable wage. To use a leftist term which they 102 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: have turned into, if you show up four hours away, 103 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,840 Speaker 1: you deserve to have a livable way, is what they said. 104 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: It was all about a livable wage. You must be livable. 105 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: Everything has to be about the employee having a nice 106 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: life and a livable life. And if you're willing to 107 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: show up and put in four hours, you deserve to 108 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 1: live a certain level that the Democrats have decided is 109 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: an appropriate level for you to live at. That's what 110 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: they've set livable wage. The problem is there's a lot 111 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 1: of employers that if you go to fifteen hours, there's 112 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: going to do two things. One they're either going to 113 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:31,239 Speaker 1: shut down their entire business because they can't make money. Two, 114 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: they're gonna under employe. They're gonna cut back hours. So 115 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,599 Speaker 1: because they're gonna say, okay, look, I'm forced down to 116 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 1: pay you more. So instead of forty hours a week, 117 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: you're gonna get thirty five hours a week. Right, You're 118 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 1: gonna do the same job in fewer hours, or we're 119 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:47,039 Speaker 1: gonna change our business hours to the most profitable hours 120 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:48,840 Speaker 1: with the staff and then we're gonna you know, shoe 121 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 1: stringing on these others. You're not gonna win that battle 122 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 1: because the bottom line of businesses and small businesses are 123 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: going to end up being the bottom line no matter what. 124 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 1: If I have a bottom line number and you tell 125 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 1: me I've spend a bunch more money employing people air rate, 126 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: I'm just going to cut hours immediately until we figure 127 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: it out. So now you have Americans that are underemployed. 128 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:09,679 Speaker 1: You also have the third thing that's going to happen, 129 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: and that's going to be the issue of automation. Look 130 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: at automation. I cannot tell you how many times I 131 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: now go to the Groce store and I checked my 132 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: own groceries. I swiped them myself. Please put the item 133 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: back in the bag. You probably hurt a million times. 134 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: I went to Walmart the other day and it was busy. 135 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: There was not a single human being that was actually 136 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 1: manually checking anyone out. All of those lines in the 137 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: middle of the store were totally empty because no one 138 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: was doing that job. These self checkout they had added 139 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 1: to the left side of the store and the right 140 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 1: side of the store. Right that the store side you 141 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 1: go and where the pharmacy is on the other side, 142 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: where the food is. That's what they were doing. Those 143 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: people lost their job because they're moving to automation. Walmart, 144 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: Pizza Hut, Domino's. The list goes on and on McDonald's. 145 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: They've figured out that minimum wage increases are coming. They've 146 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: seen it happen in different areas around the country. They 147 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: have had these mandates in Seattle and New York for 148 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: living wages and these really high things, and they just 149 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: got ahead of it. They just made the decision right 150 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: as a business, We're not gonna wait for it to happen. 151 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: We're gonna plan for it to happen. And they've gone 152 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: to automation. So it's not just what's happening right now 153 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 1: at Walmart where I walk in and not a single 154 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: person is actually checking anyone out right, not a single 155 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: person's checking anyone out. It's all self checkouts. And they're 156 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 1: gonna move to that because it can save them money. 157 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 1: And they know that fifteen dollar minium wage is coming, 158 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:48,960 Speaker 1: and they're saying, Okay, we have to figure out how 159 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: to keep our bottom line where it is with these 160 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: new arbitrary rules. This is where we are, and it's 161 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: going to be a huge problem. It's gonna be a 162 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 1: big one, and so let's start it now. Let's do 163 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: it now, let's get ahead of it now. It's exactly 164 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 1: what they've done. It's brilliant from a business perspective. Banks 165 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: are now starting to do it. Have you noticed how 166 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: many banks that used to have the traditional teller where 167 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: you would pull up and talk to human being and 168 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: stick your check in and shoot it up and over. 169 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: That's disappeared. Notice how banks are moving to technology. Please 170 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 1: don't come to the bank, is what they're saying. Please 171 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: take a picture of the checks, please send you use 172 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: the app, take a picture and we'll deposit the money 173 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: over the app. Please don't come into the bank. We 174 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: have no one here to service you. I haven't seen 175 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:37,320 Speaker 1: a human being at a bank, and I don't know 176 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:43,080 Speaker 1: how long you atm it. You have online banking, you have, 177 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: I've even seen virtual tellers now at some banks. They're 178 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: all moving to this process because when the Democrats demand 179 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: fifteen dollars hour minum wage, the society is going to 180 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 1: change to make sure that they don't lose a bunch 181 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,839 Speaker 1: of money. That's what they're going to do. Businesses are 182 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: going to make sure they can still function even while 183 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 1: they've lost a bunch of money. That's what they are 184 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: going to do. So Democrats are in a bad situation now, 185 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: which brings me these crazy democrats. I'm going to play 186 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: some of them for you. Okay, these crazy democrats, and 187 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 1: they are crazy that are demanding this fifteen dollar minum wage. 188 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 1: And they are crazy. Okay, I want to make that 189 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:32,079 Speaker 1: very very clear. They're insane. These crazy democrats have decided 190 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:34,959 Speaker 1: that they are going to pick an arbitrary number to 191 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: increase them in wage to regardless of what actually is 192 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: going to happen with people being unemployed or under employed. 193 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: And then while that is happening, what are they saying, Right, 194 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 1: while that's happening, what are they doing. They're also saying, 195 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: we'll just go around government, we don't even have to 196 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: pass it, which brings me to Democrat number one. I 197 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: want you to take a listen. And they've also now 198 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 1: said this is a human rights issue, right, It's a 199 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: human right to make fifteen dollars an hour. Meanwhile, the 200 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: Biden administration is not doing nothing to stop genocide happening 201 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:10,079 Speaker 1: in China right now, right, and human rights abuses in China. 202 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: None of that's there anymore. None of it's there anymore. 203 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:17,199 Speaker 1: They don't they don't talk about that right there. But America, 204 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: if you don't give us what we want, we will 205 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 1: say your race, bigoted, your anti human rights, you're abusing people. 206 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:28,199 Speaker 1: We name call you. Take a listen to this Democratic 207 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: congresswoman Japel. However the hell you say your name demanding 208 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 1: minimum wage here it is all waiting with bated breath. 209 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: But I will tell you that this reconciliation process was 210 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: used to kick tens of millions of people off of 211 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: healthcare by the Republicans, and the parliamentarian did allow that 212 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 1: to happen. Now, it was done in a kind of 213 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:59,599 Speaker 1: a wonky way. But when Republicans have used reconciliation to 214 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 1: kick people off of healthcare to pass a two trillion 215 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: dollar tax cut where eighty five percent of that tax 216 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: cut went to the wealthiest, I think that we feel 217 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: good that it should also then be allowed for Democrats 218 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: to use reconciliation to pass a minimum wage increase for 219 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 1: twenty seven million workers across this country and lift one 220 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 1: million minimum wage workers out of poverty. So this is 221 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 1: really really important. I did want to make a clarification 222 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 1: though the parliamentarian issues an advisory opinion. Once the parliamentarian 223 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 1: issues that advisory opinion, it is up to the Chair 224 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: of the Senate to decide whether or not to incorporate 225 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:45,079 Speaker 1: that opinion. It's a small technicality, but I do think 226 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 1: that we've got to use every tool in our toolbox here, 227 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: whether it is reconciliation, whether it is you know, ultimately 228 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: reforming the filibuster. We're going to need to deliver on 229 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 1: our promise to raise the wage for twenty seven million Americans. 230 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: So in other words, we're gonna do whatever the hell 231 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 1: we want to do. That's just how we're gonna do it, right, 232 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: We're gon We're gonna do whatever we want to do, 233 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:16,680 Speaker 1: however we want to do it. It doesn't matter, it 234 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 1: doesn't matter what you guys want to vote on or 235 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 1: don't want to vote on, because we're gonna do it anyway. 236 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 1: We're gonna do it. We're going to do it anyway. 237 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,319 Speaker 1: And this isn't the only Democrat now saying this. Take 238 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,959 Speaker 1: a listen to this conversation on MSNBC about just going 239 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:40,079 Speaker 1: around Congress mandating a new law, a fifteen dollar minimum 240 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: wage that no one will vote on potentially based on 241 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 1: what the Democrats seem to be saying today that people 242 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: have disregarded the parliamentarian's ruling. So we should just be 243 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 1: honest with folks if there are political reasons that the 244 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: White House doesn't want to disregard with parliamentarian for whatever reason, 245 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:01,560 Speaker 1: and just come out I say that, but no, that 246 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:05,559 Speaker 1: this is the decision that the Lighthouse has. The Vice 247 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:10,679 Speaker 1: President has every power to disregard that decision. I just 248 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,680 Speaker 1: want to stipulate for this conversation that Elizabeth McDonough is 249 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 1: one of the great Senate parliamentarians. Uh and and she 250 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: didn't ask to be put in this position. Adam Jennalsen, 251 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: how did it come to this in the Senate? That 252 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: these are the kinds of hurdles that the Senate has 253 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: but the House doesn't. Well. Reconciliation is a function of 254 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: the of the Budget Act that was passed in the 255 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:39,800 Speaker 1: nineteen seventies and then updated in nineteen eighty five with 256 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: the Bird Rule, which is really the issue here. The 257 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: Bird Rule is what makes the reconciliation process restrictive and 258 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: hard to use to pass things like the minimum wage. 259 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: So it's that series of first the law in the 260 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 1: seventies and then to update in the in the eighties. 261 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: That has brought us to where we are today. But really, 262 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: you know that the that the main factor here is 263 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: the filibuster, because if the Senate it was still the 264 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: majority rule institution that it was for the first two 265 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: hundred years of its existence, you wouldn't be trying to 266 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: force big policies like the minimum wage through reconciliation. You 267 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: would simply be bringing them to the floor and having 268 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: a simple upper down vote and letting it pass or 269 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: fail on a majority vote basis. Reconciliation is an attempt 270 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 1: to get around the filibuster and what it has become today, 271 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: it's evolution from sort of the talking filibuster of the 272 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: Jimmy Stewart, mister Smith goes to Washington days to the 273 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: sixty vote threshold that makes it nearly impossible to pass everything. 274 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: So that really is sort of the proximate cause and 275 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: the need to use reconciliation. Let me just jump back 276 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: in here. In other words, what he's what they're saying 277 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: is it's a tool to pass whatever the hell we 278 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: want to pass without actually having to have anyone vote 279 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: on it. We're going to just do what we want 280 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: to do because we don't have the vote. Because if 281 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: you had the votes, you would do this. And there's 282 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: a lot of Democrats that are very concerned about not 283 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 1: having the votes to do this. There's a lot of 284 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: Democrats that are very worried that this is going to 285 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: hurt people, under employed people, people will lose their jobs. 286 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: The Congressional Budget Office is said exactly that the CBO 287 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 1: is unbiased, right, they're nonpartisan, and they have said, if 288 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: you do this, Democrats, you are going to have millions 289 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 1: of Americans that will flat out get laid off, and 290 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 1: you will have millions and millions of Americans who will 291 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: be underemployed, and you're just going to force them to 292 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: find two jobs, which is exactly what the warning was 293 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 1: with Obamacare. When Obamacare had the mandate that if you 294 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: had I think it was fifteen employees or more, and 295 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: if you had people working more than thirty hours a week, 296 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 1: you had to offer them healthcare. All of them did 297 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: the same thing. They put you at twenty nine hours 298 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 1: and say go find another job to make up the 299 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: other eleven hours, which made life a lot more difficult. 300 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 1: Think about this, you go to work for forty hours 301 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 1: a week at one place. It's pretty easy. It is. 302 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: It's pretty easy. And I'm talking about logistics. I'm not 303 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 1: talking about the job. I'm talking about the logistics of it. 304 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 1: You drive there, or you take a bus there, you 305 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 1: walk there, you ride your bike there, and you stay there. 306 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:14,200 Speaker 1: You gotta get two jobs. Well, then you gotta find 307 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 1: another employee that's linked to employ you in the other 308 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:19,400 Speaker 1: hours that you're not working, which means they're probably gonna 309 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 1: not gonna match up perfectly. You gotta get back in 310 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: your car, you gotta get back on your bus, you 311 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:25,360 Speaker 1: gotta walk, you gotta get back on a bi cycle. 312 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:27,239 Speaker 1: You gotta go find another employee that's willing to give 313 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: you nine or ten or eleven hours a week. They're 314 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,679 Speaker 1: probably not gonna match up perfectly. You're gonna waste at 315 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 1: least an hour probably of your life every day in 316 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 1: the transition alone. And that's exactly what they're gonna do 317 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: with this. But they're gonna walk out there and celebrate 318 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 1: this that we care about you, America. We care about 319 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 1: you Americans, even though the data shows this is going 320 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: to be a disaster. And seeing them by the way, 321 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:59,440 Speaker 1: it's totally gone crazy manipulating the numbers. John Avalon decided, 322 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: I'll be the Democrats useful idiot of the day, I guess, 323 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: and I'll lie to you and tell you that this 324 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 1: fifteen dollars minimum wage, it's about to go down, not 325 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: through people voting on it. Is a great thing for America, 326 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,920 Speaker 1: and there's no problems with it. This is one hundred 327 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 1: percent fake news. It's one hundred percent propaganda. It's one 328 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: hundred percent inaccurate. And the Congressional Budget Office will agree 329 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,440 Speaker 1: with me. They're the ones to look at the real numbers. 330 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,879 Speaker 1: They say, millions of Americans and loser jobs, and millions 331 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,679 Speaker 1: and millions of Americans will be under employed. Take a 332 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: listen to this. So the fate of the minimum wage 333 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 1: could be decided over the next few days. President Biden 334 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 1: wants to raise the federal minimum of fifteen dollars an 335 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: hour based in over four years now. That's more than 336 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: double what it is today. And this is a very 337 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: popular idea. Quarter twenty nineteen Pew survey, two thirds of 338 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:54,479 Speaker 1: Americans supportive. That's forty three percent of Republicans as well 339 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: as eighty six percent of Democrats. And during the pandemic, 340 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 1: this has needed more than ever. Income in equalities on 341 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: the rise, and most minimum wage workers can't work from home. 342 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 1: Stop you notice how what I'm playing for you right 343 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: now that aired on CNN on their morning show is 344 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 1: not news. It's propaganda. You just had a guy presenting 345 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:20,639 Speaker 1: it as news, a propaganda piece advocating for minimum wage 346 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: to go up, saying American workers can't survive without it, 347 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 1: says who it's CNN. When did it become fact that 348 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:31,119 Speaker 1: you cannot survive without an minimum wage increase? Because if 349 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:35,159 Speaker 1: that is true, that you can't survive, we'd have fifty million, 350 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: seventy million, eighty million people living in poverty. You'd have 351 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 1: a suicide rate through the roof. This idea that that 352 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: CNN is giving you real news right now is insane. 353 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:47,119 Speaker 1: The idea that they're telling you the truth right now. No, 354 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 1: this is one propaganda because they just declared on CNN 355 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 1: that no one can survive under the current conditions. Yet 356 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,880 Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of people are surviving under the current conditions. 357 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 1: So that's just wrong. But we'll sell it to you anyway, 358 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 1: right because we're the useful idiots at seed end, we're 359 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,200 Speaker 1: the useful idiots that sell you propaganda that the left 360 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: has told us to sell to you, which is that 361 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 1: we can't survive without going to minimum wage of fifteen 362 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 1: hours an hour, even though millions of Americans are surviving 363 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 1: without it being at fifteen hours an hour. Hit play. 364 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 1: If you don't like policy, I'm sorry, get stupid someplace else, 365 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: because this debate could make a real difference in people's lives. 366 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 1: So let's get some facts on the table. The federal 367 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: minimum wage is currently seven to twenty five an hour, 368 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,880 Speaker 1: hasn't been raised since two thousand and nine. Also, it's 369 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 1: not pegged to inflation, which means that the purchasing power 370 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,360 Speaker 1: declines over time. So while a minimum wage worker made 371 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: a buck sixty in nineteen sixty nine, that's the equivalent 372 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:49,920 Speaker 1: of around twelve to twenty seven today. So how many 373 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 1: Americans make minimum wage are less? Around one point six million. 374 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 1: That translates to fifteen thousand dollars a year, which, if 375 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,399 Speaker 1: you haven't dependent, puts you below the poverty line. But 376 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,360 Speaker 1: twenty nine states have minimum wages higher than the federal level, 377 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: and the cost of living, of course, varies greatly by region. 378 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: The CBO says that raising the minimum wage could have 379 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: trade offs, though on the positive side, it would raise 380 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: wages by more than three hundred and thirty billion dollars 381 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:17,119 Speaker 1: for seventeen million workers. Nearly one million people would be 382 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: lifted out of poverty, and the government would actually spend 383 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: less for food assistance. On the downside, the CBO estimates 384 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 1: it could increase unemployment by one point four million and 385 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 1: raise the federal depths at fifty four billion dollars over 386 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 1: a decade that other studies argue would give again right there, 387 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 1: and certainly, notice what he just said there about the 388 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,120 Speaker 1: Correctional Budget Office. He just gave you the numbers which 389 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:41,920 Speaker 1: are accurate to the CBO said about certain things that 390 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 1: could have with jobs. He totally admitted the fact that 391 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 1: the CBO said that more Americans will lose their jobs 392 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 1: to be underemployed because of this, then will actually get 393 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 1: out of poverty and have the gains, which is another 394 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: reason why this is nothing but propaganda. What you just 395 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:01,400 Speaker 1: heard there from John Avalon is prop bu Ganda. It's 396 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: liberal propaganda disguise as hard news. If you're gonna tell 397 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:09,160 Speaker 1: me the facts that X number of people the CBO 398 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:13,440 Speaker 1: office says are going to flourish because of this new bill, 399 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: then you shouldn't be afraid to tell me the other 400 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:19,200 Speaker 1: number the CBO warns about, which is how many people 401 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: will actually go backwards and things will disintegrate if you 402 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 1: do this, you shouldn't be afraid of giving me both 403 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: sides if you're being non biased. But that's not what's 404 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 1: seen is doing here the Biden administration, Harris administration. The 405 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 1: leftists have gone to them and said, we need you 406 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 1: to be our useful idiots. We need you to sell 407 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 1: that there is no downside to the American people of 408 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 1: increasing minimum wage. Let me go back to Obamacare. There 409 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,159 Speaker 1: are Republicans screaming from the hilltops that if you didn't 410 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:55,960 Speaker 1: admit the arbitrary rule that if you work thirty one 411 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,400 Speaker 1: hours a week, you had to offer them healthcare. Right. 412 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,679 Speaker 1: Fifteen words are more in the in the private sector, 413 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 1: small businesses, they we warned them what was going to happen. 414 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,439 Speaker 1: People are gonna lose hours, They're then going to be 415 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 1: under employed, They're going to suffer. You're going to force 416 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: people into finding two jobs instead of having the one 417 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: job that they currently have. That we knew this was 418 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,679 Speaker 1: going to happen, and we warned them, and they did 419 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 1: it anyway, and that's exactly what ended up playing out. 420 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: It's exactly what ended up happening. And so now Avalon's 421 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: on TV over there going well, no, no no, you don't understand. 422 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,919 Speaker 1: There's some good news. It is accurate to say that 423 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:37,640 Speaker 1: there are people that will flourish and prosper and have gains. 424 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: That is absolutely true. There's there's there's no denying that 425 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 1: if you raise monum wage. But you also have to 426 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 1: do the math on how many people will be hurt. 427 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 1: And that's exactly what CNN fails to tell you about 428 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: in this story. Again, listen the very end of this 429 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:59,200 Speaker 1: propagand it's amazing hipway doom saying about past monum wage 430 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: hikes did not come to pass. Nonetheless, this is easier 431 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: said than done, especially for small businesses. Heck, get this. 432 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: Even Bernie Sanders ran into trouble when some of his 433 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 1: campaign workers complained they weren't being paid the minimum wage 434 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 1: he was campaigning on at the time. Sanders argued he 435 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,439 Speaker 1: was playing the equivalent of fifteen dollars an hour if 436 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 1: he had in benefits. There's an additional hurdle Senate rules. 437 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: Even President Biden doesn't think his minimum wage proposal will 438 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,400 Speaker 1: survive as part of his COVID relief bill. This Friday, 439 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,479 Speaker 1: the House will vote, then the Senate takes it up, 440 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: but they're expected to pass it on party lines through 441 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,679 Speaker 1: what's called reconciliation, which is only for budget items. And 442 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 1: there's a real debate about whether this qualifies. In addition, 443 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,400 Speaker 1: two Senate Democrats say they won't support it, so does 444 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 1: that mean it's doa not necessarily? Republicans senders meant Romney 445 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: and Tom Cotton put forward their own proposal, raising the 446 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 1: minuage to ten dollars but requiring companies verify their employees 447 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: are not undocumented, while also creating flexibility for small businesses 448 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 1: with here than twenty workers. I note this is a 449 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: lot to digest, but this is a real policy debate, 450 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,040 Speaker 1: not one of these fact free food fights we've seen 451 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,920 Speaker 1: so much of in recent years. It would affect millions 452 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: of people struggling to get by. Now, if that's not 453 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:11,640 Speaker 1: worth taking seriously, nothing is, and there it is, There 454 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,359 Speaker 1: it is. If it's not worth taking seriously, then nothing is. 455 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,439 Speaker 1: You notice there was not a single moment in that 456 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,639 Speaker 1: report he talked about anything negative that could possibly happen, 457 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 1: Because you decide to raise minum wage. They did not 458 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 1: refuse to mention millions of Americans can lose jobs, not 459 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: can will lose jobs, that millions and millions more of 460 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:34,119 Speaker 1: Americans will be under employed. And again you listen to 461 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 1: them cheerleading and normalizing passing a law through reconciliation that 462 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: is supposed to be for budget with this has nothing 463 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: to do with the budget, which means you're changing the 464 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,240 Speaker 1: rules and making crap up as you go in an 465 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 1: unpresent way. And they just normalize it because they say, well, 466 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:54,120 Speaker 1: we've got at least try, right, we gotta at least try. 467 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: Millions of Americans are relying and depending on us. We 468 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,200 Speaker 1: gotta at least try. We have to at least try it. 469 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 1: We've got to at least try this. This is something 470 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: we have to at least try. This is something so 471 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,680 Speaker 1: important that we just try it. We can't not try it, folks, 472 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,439 Speaker 1: We've got to. You know, if if it fails, at 473 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 1: least we tried. That's how that's how you justify making 474 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 1: a terrible decision. They have said that millions of Americans 475 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 1: are suffering living in poverty. We're trying to fix it. 476 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,159 Speaker 1: This is how we're going to fix it, and then 477 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,159 Speaker 1: Americans aren't surviving right now, and they can't survive right now, 478 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 1: even though millions of Americans are surviving right now and 479 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,719 Speaker 1: are flourishing right now, and the sky is not falling, 480 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 1: But we've decided to tell you this guy is falling 481 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: so that you'll go along with it, because remember, you're 482 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:43,639 Speaker 1: a terrible human being if you do not believe in 483 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 1: paying people a quote living wage. If there's anything brilliant 484 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:54,439 Speaker 1: that the Democrats have done, it is that it is 485 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,640 Speaker 1: brilliant what the Democrats have done here. They have put 486 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: people in a no when such that you're anti worker, 487 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: anti American success, anti helping business, you know, families, if 488 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,400 Speaker 1: you are against it now our minum wage, they don't 489 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 1: give a crap. By the way, all the data shows 490 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,639 Speaker 1: that people will lose their jobs. And the small businesses 491 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: can't afford this right now, especially in the time of COVID. 492 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 1: Right now, who can afford to give out big increases 493 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,679 Speaker 1: in wages right now in America? I don't know a 494 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: single small business owner right now that says I'd love 495 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: to pay workers more or I can afford it. Because 496 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 1: of cod COVID has sucked the life out of small 497 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,880 Speaker 1: businesses in this country, and now you want to stick 498 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: them with a mandated wage increase for their workers. Millions 499 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: of Americans will be hurt because of this, and they 500 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 1: know it, and they're lying to you, and I'll leave 501 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:43,959 Speaker 1: it at that.