1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: Minimum wage workers in twenty two states are about to 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: get what I refer to is nothing more than a 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: communist raise on January the first. 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 2: Get ready. 5 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: It is going to mean the cost of goods and 6 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: services are going to go up. Why because Democrats have 7 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: demanded what they refer to as a living wage. Now 8 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: they're having success on this because there are so many 9 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: people that are saying, oh, I'm afraid of telling the 10 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: truth about minimum wage. 11 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 2: And the fact of the matter is you should. 12 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:32,319 Speaker 1: Not be able to gather a living wage for some 13 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: jobs in this country. That's okay for you to say that, 14 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 1: and if you do say it, you shouldn't be ostracized 15 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 1: for it. But that's exactly what the left has now done. 16 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,639 Speaker 1: That's why minimum wage workers in twenty two states are 17 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 1: going to see more money in their paycheck in the 18 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 1: new year. What does that mean? The cost of goods 19 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: and services will go up to cover the costs in 20 00:00:56,160 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: these twenty two states. Those increases, they say, will affect 21 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 1: nine point nine million workers. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 22 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:08,040 Speaker 1: How much is it going to cost? 23 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 2: They estimate that those. 24 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: Bumped wages will add an additional seven billion in pay 25 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: which means it's going to cost you at least seven 26 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: billion more for the goods and services that are offered, 27 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 1: because you have to somehow pay for the seven billion 28 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 1: dollars in government. 29 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 2: Mandated pay checks. 30 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: Now, in addition to those twenty two states, there are 31 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,680 Speaker 1: other places that are getting raises that are even more significant. 32 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: Thirty seven woke cities and counties will also increase their 33 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: minimum wage above the state minimums on January the first. 34 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 2: According to the Labor Department, twenty. 35 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: States will will maintain the federal minimum wage of seven 36 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: twenty five an hour, and according to EPI, of the 37 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: seventeen point six million workers earning less than fifteen dollars 38 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: an hour, nearly half live in those states that continue 39 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: to stick to the federal minimum wage, which has not 40 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 1: been changed since two thousand and nine. And the cost 41 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 1: of living, however, has skyrocketed. According to the Bureau of 42 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: Labor Statistics Customer Price Index or I should say the 43 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: Consumer Price Index, a dollar in twenty twenty three can 44 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 1: buy roughly seventy percent of what it could buy in 45 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,239 Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. It's pretty simple. The costs of 46 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:39,519 Speaker 1: goods and services have skyrocketed. Now, let's be honest, when 47 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: was the last time you saw a job that was 48 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: being offered at seven twenty five an hour. The reality is, 49 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: in many of the states where minimum wage is still 50 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: going to be the federal minimum at seven to twenty 51 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 1: five an hour, you can't find anyone offering seven twenty 52 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:02,799 Speaker 1: five an hour because you guessed it. There's a real 53 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: world reality to what's happening. As a business owner, I 54 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 1: can tell you the idea of paying people seven twenty 55 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: five an hour is a joke. You can't find anyone 56 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: to take a job at seven twenty five an hour. 57 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: So do we need a federal minimum wage or a 58 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: state minimum wage number that's higher than that to fix 59 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 1: the problem. Based on what I've seen as a business owner, 60 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: the enters know we would have no one come to 61 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: work if we were offering seven twenty five an hour. 62 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: No one can afford to work. It's seven twenty five 63 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: an hour. 64 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 3: Now. 65 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 1: There are some entry level jobs, to be clear that 66 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 1: I think in part time work that can be lower. 67 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: But even then, when was the last time you saw 68 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: part time hours being offered at seven twenty five an hour. 69 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: I know kids now that are making twenty dollars an 70 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: hour babysitting the majority of jobs that I've seen right now, 71 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: and this is I would argue, is even entry because 72 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: you have to stay competitive, have been around fifteen dollars 73 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: an hour, which is double or more than double, if 74 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: we really want to get into it, more than double 75 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: the minimum wage. Now, over the past year, we've had 76 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: issues with inflation, the rising costs of virtually everything from 77 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: housing to interest rates to groceries that has forced many 78 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: Americans to deplete their savings and go deeper into debt. 79 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: These rises in minimum wage are going to make the 80 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: problem even worse. While the US economy is proving to 81 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: quote be robust in terms of retail sales, strong job numbers, 82 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 1: and a slowing rate of inflation, those who earned minimum 83 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:49,559 Speaker 1: wage have had a harder time paying rent and buying 84 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:54,159 Speaker 1: essential household goods, including groceries. According to the EPI Index, 85 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: nearly fifty eight percent of workers who will benefit from 86 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: the coming wage increase are women, nine percent are black, 87 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 1: and nearly thirty eight percent or Hispanic. Now, if you're obsessed, 88 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: okay with minimum wage, and you think that there's a 89 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: ton of these seven to twenty five jobs out there 90 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,480 Speaker 1: which there are not, let me give you an example 91 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,599 Speaker 1: of how things are different in reality. Okay, Target is 92 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 1: raising its minimum wage to as much as twenty four 93 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,359 Speaker 1: dollars an hour, depending on where that target is located 94 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:29,160 Speaker 1: in this country. The reason why Target is raising its 95 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: minimum wage to as much as twenty four dollars an 96 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 1: hour depending on where you live where the Target is 97 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: is because they realize that you have employees that will 98 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: actually even show up and then maybe do an average 99 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 1: job at best, it takes more than seven to twenty 100 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: five an hour an hour. Seven to twenty five is 101 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: not the real minimum wage in this country. I would 102 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: love to know, and I'm sure there's a way to 103 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: find this out if people actually cared about telling the truth, 104 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: I would, I really would. I would love to know 105 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: what the numbers show of how many people working, what 106 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: percentage of those working full time are making real minimum 107 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: wage of seven to twenty five an hour? If someone 108 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: could could give me that data, because I've been trying 109 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: to find it, I cannot find it. If you're on 110 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 1: a payroll and you're working a full time job, tell 111 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: me what seven twenty five an hour really looks like. 112 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: How many workers are showing up for seven twenty five 113 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: an hour for minimum wage? It doesn't exist. It just doesn't. 114 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: And people that act like it exists. You're in some significant, 115 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,839 Speaker 1: meaningful way where there are hundreds of thousands of adults 116 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 1: who are waking up, and those adults that are waking 117 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,479 Speaker 1: up or walking into work for seven twenty five an 118 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,359 Speaker 1: hour and content, I would also are you have to 119 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: be really stupid if that's where you are, because there 120 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: are other jobs that are being posted that are twelve 121 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:02,039 Speaker 1: ninety five, fifteen, eighteen, seven teen dollars fifteen dollars an hour. 122 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: Most people that I that I know are at least 123 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 1: and I'm talking about others that are that have basic 124 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: entry level jobs are about twelve dollars an hour now. 125 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 2: A year and a half ago, you could get. 126 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,239 Speaker 1: In the nines and tens. That doesn't exist anymore because 127 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: biden inflation. That doesn't exist anymore because of Bidenomics, and 128 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: with Bidenomics and the rising prices than what's happened is 129 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: the rates have gone up, and it's very hard to 130 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 1: find workers now, not good workers, it's very hard to 131 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 1: find workers that will even show up. The number of 132 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: people that get hired now and the turnover is the 133 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: highest I've ever seen in my life like there used 134 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: to be shame, and there used to be like personal 135 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: responsibility in the workforce. And let's talk about the shame 136 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: for a second. If you got a job and you 137 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: didn't show up, you were shamed and it was about 138 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: your character. 139 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 2: Not anymore. 140 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: I know people that have showed up for one day 141 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: of work one day, and then after that one day 142 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: of work, they're like, I don't like this job. 143 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 2: I'm ound, and they just don't show up. 144 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: There used to be people that when they they would 145 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: they would actually give you, like genuinely give you two 146 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: weeks notice that they're quitting. 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I want to 180 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 1: go back to what I was saying a moment ago. 181 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: When these people get raises, these arbitrary raises that make 182 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 1: everybody feel better with Kumbaiism, and this is what saw. 183 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: This is what socialists and communists do. When you get 184 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 1: the raise, It's not like you have more buying power. 185 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 1: You've got to cover the seven billion dollars a new expense. 186 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 1: These rate wages that you think you're getting in a 187 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:42,680 Speaker 1: bigger paycheck, they actually just disappear with the cost of 188 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: goods and services going up. 189 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 2: Over a quarter of those who will. 190 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: Benefit from the pay increase, they say, our parents to 191 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: the White House talking point, they say, which could make 192 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: a quote significant difference in their standards of living, given 193 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: that nearly twenty percent of the benefiting minimum wage workers 194 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: currently have incomes below the poverty line, they say. Most recently, 195 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: Senate Democrats introduced the Raise the Wage Act of twenty 196 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:11,559 Speaker 1: twenty three in July. If passed, it would gradually increase 197 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: federal midium wage to seventeen dollars an hour by twenty 198 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 1: twenty eight. Now let's talk about these twenty three states 199 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 1: that are increasing their minimum wage, all right, January one, 200 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: and I'm just going to kind of go over what 201 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 1: they are so you understand. So Alaska, for example, their 202 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:34,959 Speaker 1: minimum wage is going to jump to eleven dollars and 203 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: seventy three cents. They say that's an inflation adjustment, and 204 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: that's fine. It costs more to live in Alaska. But 205 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 1: I promise you go in Alaska. And I did this 206 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: before the show. I looked it up in the Anchorage. 207 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: There's no one advertising jobs at minimum wage. They're not 208 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: saying come take a minimum wage job. 209 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 2: Like that doesn't exist. If you want people to show up, 210 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 2: you're going to pay them more. 211 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 1: Arizona, for example, huge increase minimum wage in Arizona's going 212 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: to four feen thirty five. California is going to sixteen 213 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,200 Speaker 1: dollars an hour, and look what it's doing to that state. 214 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: People are fleeing that state because the cost of living 215 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: is gone through the roof. So you may think you're 216 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: making more, but the cost of goods and services. 217 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:20,319 Speaker 2: Let's just go to a basic math here. California. 218 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 1: Right now, gas prices when I was out there this 219 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: summer where we're about two dollars more. 220 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 2: A gallon than where I live. 221 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 1: So when I'm filling up a car if you've got 222 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: to let's just call it a twenty gallon tank, you're 223 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: paying forty dollars more to fill up that tank. So 224 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: you're sixteen dollars an hour just disappeared. You're still living 225 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: like paycheck to paycheck. The sixteen dollars doesn't matter. You 226 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:45,559 Speaker 1: get turned to seventeen or eighteen. It's not going to 227 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: change people's lives because the cost to live out there 228 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 1: is so high. 229 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,319 Speaker 2: Look at the cost of rent in California. 230 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: Are you better off living in a state like Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas? Right, 231 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: Georgia Missouri fly over country where the rent rates could 232 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 1: be as much as half compared to what is in 233 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 1: California Colorado, for example, where you can go smoke weed 234 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: and get paid more. Right, fourteen forty two an hour 235 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: is what they are jumping to. 236 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:17,679 Speaker 2: They're going up massively. 237 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 1: Minimum wage was I mean fourteen forty two, Connecticut's going 238 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: to fifteen sixty nine. Delaware are going to thirteen twenty five, 239 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:32,679 Speaker 1: Hawaii fourteen hours an hour, Illinois fourteen hour, Main fourteen 240 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 1: fifteen an hour. 241 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:37,439 Speaker 2: This is virtue signaling. 242 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 1: Look at Maryland minimum wage is fifteen dollars an hour, 243 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 1: Michigan ten thirty three, Minnesota ten eighty five, Missouri is 244 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: going to twelve thirty, Montana ten thirty. Nebraska's twelve dollars. 245 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: New Jersey's going to fifteen thirteen an hour. New York 246 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:57,679 Speaker 1: is fifteen New York City, Long Island sixteen an hour 247 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: minimum wage, oh Hi, Io ten forty five, Rhode Island 248 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 1: fourteen an hour, South Dakota eleven twenty, Vermont thirteen sixty seven, 249 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:12,599 Speaker 1: Washington State sixteen twenty eight an hour. Now there's some 250 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: other states that have had increases. I'll give you example Florida. 251 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: Florida has a statementum wage of twelve bucks an hour. 252 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 1: Why did it go up because of a ballot measure? 253 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: And people say, all right, well, you know, I feel 254 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: better if we say we're going to make them, allow 255 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: them to make more money. Now, I don't believe in 256 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: a government minimum wage at all, federal government. If states 257 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: want to do it, that's a state's rights issue. 258 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 2: That's what that is. It is. It's a states rights issue. 259 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 2: And that's fine. 260 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 1: You can decide what you want to do in your state, 261 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: but the federal government I don't even believe should have 262 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: a minimum wage at all. The fair market should decide, 263 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: and the fair market has decided. 264 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 2: Okay, Like the. 265 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: Fair market has made it very clear, and the fair 266 00:14:56,160 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 1: market has decided. It is obvious that the fair market 267 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: has said seven twenty five is not a reality, and 268 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 1: it is not something that is probably ever going to 269 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: happen for ninety nine point nine percent of Americans. You're 270 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: going to get paid more than that. There are some 271 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 1: people that have jobs are seven twenty five an hour. 272 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: That's true, and that's fine, But how fast can you 273 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 1: get out of that job? And I could say, right now, 274 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 1: I could go out and probably get without even a resume, 275 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: just like writing down my name, my number, and a 276 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: couple of references. I could probably find twenty jobs that 277 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: I could get offered tomorrow at above fifteen dollars an hour. 278 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: I really don't think that's a crazy thing to say, 279 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: because I know the hiring right now, and I know how. 280 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 2: Bad it is. 281 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: And if you have a brain, and I'm not saying 282 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 1: you have to be like smart, I'm not say you 283 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: have to even have a high school degree. 284 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 2: Much so as a college degree. I don't think you 285 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 2: have to have a high school degree. 286 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: I don't think you have to have a college degree 287 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: to be honest with you, anymore to make fifteen eighteen 288 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: twenty bucks an hour. And that's the point that I'm 289 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 1: talking about. I want to get to your phone calls, 290 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 1: and I want to get your reaction to some of this. 291 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 1: The number five three five nine seven three two five 292 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: three five nine seven three two eight hundred number one 293 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: eight hundred four seven four nine seven three two. 294 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 2: Let me also just say this. 295 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: As I was talking about this, I was doing a 296 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: job search and I did a you can now like geo, 297 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 1: kind of like fence. 298 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 2: Where you want to look. 299 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 1: I just threw a map around where I grew up 300 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 1: and did a four mile radius, which I think is 301 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 1: a fair like radius to put around a high school 302 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 1: kid finding a job. I'm going back to high school 303 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: in my mind, and I'm looking at the jobs that 304 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: are available, and most people now will put up there 305 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: like darting salary. So I'm looking at four different jobs 306 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 1: right now for fast food workers that are eleven seventy five, 307 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:17,920 Speaker 1: eleven fifty, and twelve fifteen. Starting those are the starting numbers. 308 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 1: I'm looking at a job. Now, I'm looking at a job, 309 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 1: it says landscaping company. All right, I'm going to read 310 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 1: it for you. Looking for workers who will show up 311 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 1: for work. Need someone that has transportation starting at twenty 312 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,639 Speaker 1: one dollars an hour. Twenty one bucks an hour, y'all, 313 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:46,400 Speaker 1: twenty one dollars an hour. Here's another one, painters. This 314 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:52,360 Speaker 1: looks like a home services company. Painting company eighteen seventy 315 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 1: five an hour, No experience necessary. Here's another one, says 316 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:05,199 Speaker 1: phone dispatch operator, nineteen fifty an hour. I still have 317 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 1: not found a seven to twenty five an hour job. 318 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:10,359 Speaker 2: I'm looking, I'm not finding it. 319 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,360 Speaker 1: Let me just let you hear what the Amazon CEO 320 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 1: has to say, Jesse about federal minium wage. And again 321 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,679 Speaker 1: this is virtue signaling from him when he said this 322 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 1: on CNBC. What are you seeing in terms of wages 323 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: at this point, in terms of wages going up? 324 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, they certainly have gone up over the last 325 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 4: two years, and you know, some of which we did ourselves. 326 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 4: You know, we championed the fifteen dollar minimum wage, which 327 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 4: is more than double the federal minimum wage. Which it's 328 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 4: high time that that changed too, by the way, But. 329 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 2: What do you think it should become. 330 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 4: I don't know the exact number, but below seven dollars 331 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 4: and fifty cents to me feels very wrong, you know, 332 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 4: I think it should be closer to that fifteen dollars 333 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:02,439 Speaker 4: minue wage that that you know, we started a few 334 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 4: years ago and then, yeah, our average starting salary now 335 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 4: is over eighteen dollars, and so wages have continued to 336 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:12,879 Speaker 4: go up. You know, when you run a retail business 337 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 4: like we do. It's true for all retailers. They're relatively 338 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 4: low operating margin businesses. So this is really only so 339 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 4: far you can go and have an economic business that 340 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 4: makes sense. But we've continued to see wages go up, 341 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 4: and there's been a very significant acceleration in the last 342 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 4: two years. And I you know, it's hard to tell 343 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 4: how much more they'll go up. I don't think we'll 344 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:32,919 Speaker 4: go backwards though. 345 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: In that they're paying more than minimum wage. So why 346 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 1: are we having this conversation? 347 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 2: Why? 348 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 1: You know, there's also been this virtue signaling and this 349 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 1: obsession with oh, you should tip people for everything to 350 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: subsidize them. Democrats that were you know, demanding will work 351 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: for fair wages. 352 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:55,120 Speaker 2: Will vote for fair wages right in DC. 353 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: They said this earlier last year when they were having 354 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 1: this big debate, saying, well, you know, we need to 355 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:07,880 Speaker 1: have tippers that are are people that are tipping need 356 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: to tip more, and those that don't tip, and jobs 357 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 1: that don't have a tip should be given the opportunity 358 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: to make more money by tipping. And then they blamed 359 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:20,199 Speaker 1: it on white men. This is the Democratic Party in 360 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,719 Speaker 1: front of the Capitol. Listen to Democratic Representative Levin. 361 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:29,359 Speaker 3: All right, I'm Andy Levin from a neighboring district of 362 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 3: Congresswoman Lawrence's, and I'm just gonna say a few things. 363 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:38,359 Speaker 3: Number One, let's be honest. If most tip workers look 364 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 3: like me, we wouldn't even be standing here. We wouldn't 365 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 3: be here at all. Tip workers are overwhelmingly women, and 366 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:51,879 Speaker 3: disproportionately women of color. And it is time to get 367 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 3: rid of sub minimum wages full stop. Pay them fifteen 368 00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 3: dollars an hour plus tips. All right. Secondly, look down 369 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 3: to that other end of the capitol, that far side 370 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 3: over here, Raja, Christiana Martin and Brenda Lawrence, said Jan 371 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,199 Speaker 3: Chakowski and all my other congress people who are here, 372 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 3: and I we already passed the Raise the way Jack, 373 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 3: we did that a long time ago, that eliminates sub 374 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 3: minimum wages. Let's eliminate the filibuster and do justice by 375 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 3: the American people by passing it in the Senate. All right, now, 376 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 3: one thing I haven't heard mentioned, Saru. You all have 377 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 3: done some amazing research. I try to read it. In 378 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 3: states that have eliminated sub minimum wages for tipped workers, 379 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 3: restaurants have flourished, they've done better, they've grown. So it's 380 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,640 Speaker 3: time for us to do this as a nation. And 381 00:21:55,040 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 3: you know, i gotta tell you, I I'm for the venues. 382 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,679 Speaker 3: I was so proud when the Magic Bag put my 383 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 3: name up there in Ferndale because I was fighting for 384 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,639 Speaker 3: the you know, comedy clubs and the and the music clubs. 385 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 3: And I'm so proud that we passed funding for restaurants, 386 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 3: you know, earlier in the pandemic. And I'm a supporter 387 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,680 Speaker 3: of the Restaurant Restoration Replenishment Act. 388 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 1: But you know what, by the way, I wanted you 389 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 1: to hear that last part because I just wanted you 390 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,120 Speaker 1: to hear his his argument there, right, Like, I'm proud 391 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: and I'm a f in favor of subsidizing restaurants. I 392 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 1: am in favor of subsidizing every worker. I'm in favor 393 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:41,160 Speaker 1: of the government writing checks right that remember during the pandemic. 394 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,120 Speaker 1: I'm in favor of all this. They want to give 395 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: away money, give away money, give away money that we 396 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 1: don't have. 397 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:47,680 Speaker 2: These are the. 398 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:52,360 Speaker 1: Same people that are out there demanding that you give 399 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of money to Ukraine that's being embezzled. 400 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 2: And filled with like that. 401 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: That's the truth. But they love this. They want to 402 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 1: just give away money all the time. They want to 403 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,879 Speaker 1: give away, They want to give away money constantly. They 404 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,639 Speaker 1: don't work for the money. They want you to go 405 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 1: and and somebody has to pay for this. 406 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 2: We all know that. 407 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,639 Speaker 1: So when you raise them in own wage, he pays 408 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:26,360 Speaker 1: for it. People buying the goods and services. We went 409 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: to a Mexican restaurant in the night and got kso 410 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: okay kso. I have never cared what the cost of 411 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,920 Speaker 1: caso is in my life because it's always been a 412 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:41,399 Speaker 1: yes it was. The bill came and this isn't like 413 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:46,360 Speaker 1: some special high end Mexican restaurant. It was a normal 414 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:51,120 Speaker 1: Mexican restaurant. And the cost that keso was twenty dollars 415 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,199 Speaker 1: for a large caso. Now this large caso was not 416 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 1: like some massive bowl of caso. It was like they 417 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 1: had a small, which is a small little cup. They 418 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,680 Speaker 1: had a medium with they say is for is for 419 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,399 Speaker 1: about maybe two to three people, four possibly, and then 420 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: they have a large, which is for six people or more. 421 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 1: At our table, we had, I think there was eight 422 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 1: of us. So we got the large bill comms and 423 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 1: I'm like, good grief, what was so? 424 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:15,959 Speaker 3: Like? 425 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: Why was this Mexican food so expensive? And I was 426 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 1: actually expecting a bill that was not that big. And 427 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,639 Speaker 1: the reason why I say that is because as I 428 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: was looking at the you know, I actually ordered for 429 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:31,680 Speaker 1: tea soup, so I was just not that hungry and 430 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: I was like, I'm just gonna get soup. So I 431 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: wasn't expecting it to be that big because of the 432 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 1: like I'm basically cutting out a full price entree and 433 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,199 Speaker 1: I look at it, I'm like, you know, shocked at what. 434 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: I'm like, what is it? What made this meal so expensive? 435 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: Twenty dollars kso why was it so expensive? That's how 436 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 1: much the costs of goods and services have gone up, 437 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,439 Speaker 1: and inflation on what it costs at a restaurant to 438 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:03,679 Speaker 1: purchase things. 439 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 2: There are no more cheap meals out there. 440 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,120 Speaker 1: Wendy's, by the way, is my go to when it's 441 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 1: like late, get off a flight kind of thing. 442 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 2: It was twelve dollars eleven or twelve bucks. 443 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: The other day I got off a flight and I 444 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: got a Wendy's spicy chicken salach. 445 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 2: They now charge you. 446 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 1: I think it was like seventy five cents or a 447 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 1: piece of cheese and didn't upsize or anything. Just spicy 448 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,439 Speaker 1: chicken saladch It's what I get, right, get the combo, 449 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: and I'm like, it's now eleven dollars twelve bucks for 450 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: me to get just for me. So a family four, 451 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: if you all go, it's over forty dollars, like over 452 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,560 Speaker 1: forty bucks, really over forty dollars, Like seriously, that's where 453 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:45,919 Speaker 1: we are. 454 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 2: Forty dollars forty. 455 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: Bucks to go out there and to get basic things 456 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 1: like a fast food meal. You go and you get 457 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,679 Speaker 1: basic food anywhere, and this is now where we are. 458 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 1: So you raise this minimum wage, and you do this 459 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: in virtue signaling. You do this in the name of Hey, 460 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 1: everything's got to be perfect, and everything's got to have. 461 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 1: You know, everybody's life should be perfect, and you must 462 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 1: subsidize that person's life, because that's what they're telling you 463 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 1: got to do. 464 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 2: You've got to subsidize life. 465 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: And this is about bringing those that are higher down 466 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 1: and those that are lower up, so everyone's the same. 467 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,160 Speaker 1: You know where they have that Russia? You know where 468 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 1: they have that China, You know where they have that Venezuela. 469 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 1: You know where they have that Cuba. This woke ideology, 470 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 1: which is demanding did everyone be the same? 471 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 2: Is marked in communism. It's marked. 472 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: It's a core value of socialism, it's a core value 473 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,160 Speaker 1: of Marxism. Now there's the elite, right, there's the elite 474 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 1: in Russia, there's Russian oligarksters, Putin's friends. Right, if you're 475 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 1: well connected and you're corrupt, you can make some serious cash. 476 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,640 Speaker 1: You can do that, but besides that, all the rest 477 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 1: of you you have to be the same. And when 478 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: everybody is the same, and that's what this is about, right, 479 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 1: bring up the bottom end by mandating that you bring 480 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,360 Speaker 1: up the bottom end. Bring up the bottom end by 481 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 1: forcing people to pay insane prices for basic things. And 482 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: then you so you bring down the top. You bring 483 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: up the other. Everybody becomes the same. In there, you 484 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 1: are in a discussion. That is the blueprint for this 485 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: don't forget. Share this podcast with your family and friends, 486 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 1: Share it on social media. 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